Simply exposing pregnant #mice to bacon odors, without any change in their diets, predisposed their offspring to #obesity due to accompanying brain wiring changes: buff.ly/7KVn4DQ #health #fat

Is good consensus that corequisite remediation promotes student success better than traditional, prereq remediation (see buff.ly/MR1CEby ), but which if the many ways to do coreq is best? May be no single best method, & even 1 credit of coreq can help: buff.ly/uxUZoaL #AcademicSky #highered #math

Potential vertical transfer students (students who want to transfer from associate to bachelor's programs) in #NorthCarolina face many of the same challenges in completing their degrees that are faced by vertical transfer students in other states. buff.ly/DMVq4k4 #AcademicSky #highered

In the end, what matters most for the success of transfer students is how the students themselves feel about their experience. Hear directly from students about this in a webinar this Friday, 3-5pm EST (you can register at buff.ly/U45jEHB or scan the attached QR code). #AcademicSky #highered

The Community College of Vermont has a program for giving students college credit for their work experience: buff.ly/ZGgPlVE This can help students get their degrees quicker. Credits should belong to students & travel with them, wherever they go in their higher ed journeys. #AcademicSky #highered

The state of #Michigan is encouraging HS students with relatively high PSAT scores to take AP classes to get them college credits & save later college tuition: buff.ly/ptEymPE But will those AP classes really result in college credits that count towards degree requirements? #AcademicSky #highered

How can you study what wild animals are actually eating without having to catch or otherwise interfere with or disturb those animals? Examine the stomach contents of roadkill! Roadkill can also be used for other studies such as the abundance of certain species or disease prevalence: buff.ly/E16lQLf

Math modeling of human & nonhuman foraging behavior has been going on for a while (see Ch. 7 of buff.ly/VFYzOfZ ). Now such modeling has been done w. competitive ice fishers in #Finland, helping to explain when they do & don't change where they fish on the ice. buff.ly/E16lQLf #psychology

Huge congrats to @pamela.burdman.bsky.social for figuring out the increase in remedial #math placement at @ucsandiego.bsky.social, which had been attributed to #covid & more low-income students, coincided w. a new ban on calculator use in the placement test: buff.ly/K2clduc #AcademicSky #highered

Students in rural settings seem to benefit more from dual enrollment (college courses taught to high school students) than do students in urban settings, possibly because the latter have more access to alternative types of advanced courses: buff.ly/wBS8eA3 #AcademicSky #highered

CAEL (Council for Adult & Experiential Learning) has long sought to increase college students getting CPL(credit for prior learning)acquired in nontraditional settings. Now Ithaka S+R is investigating how to increase current & past incarcerated people's CPL: buff.ly/WWphSOt #AcademicSky #highered

An increasing number of states are permitting community colleges to offer bachelor's degrees, but many IHEs (public & private) in those states aren't happy about it. This piece details the struggles in some of those states. buff.ly/tVjrDi6 #AcademicSky #highered @sara.weissman.insidehighered.com

Concerns about finishing their bachelor's within 2 yrs may inhibit vertical transfer students from participating in time-consuming high-impact practices like internships: buff.ly/bEWfstC But taking >2yrs to finish increases risk of nonacademic events interfering w. finishing. #AcademicSky #highered

Some researchers believe that some people have very little, or no, experience of inner speech. This is called anendophasia, & its existence is controversial. But I know some people who I think would be good candidates for this diagnosis. buff.ly/mWpZ6F7 #psychology #AcademicSky #highered

Have you noticed OJ tastes terrible if you drink it after brushing your teeth? Prof. Linda Bartoshuk: that's because "toothpaste contains a detergent that dissolves fat. & since your taste buds are partly made of fat, they are disrupted whenever you brush your teeth." buff.ly/cEMVbRB #psychology

In #California colleges are supposed to give credit for prior work experience, however communication and record-keeping problems are hindering the progress and monitoring of these efforts: buff.ly/c5G2otO #AcademicSky #highered

Many US community colleges want to offer bachelor's degrees. About half of the states currently allow this. An example of a community college that wants to offer these degrees: #Iowa Central Community College. Times-Republican 2/4/26. AcademicSky #highered

Let’s #TransformHigherEd with the recommendations from the #LEARNCommission, convened by AACRAO and Sova, with goal of ensuring that #highered students get ALL their learning evaluated fairly & counted towards their degrees at ALL IHEs. Download your copy of the report: buff.ly/gqeovXf #AcademicSky

Please register at buff.ly/dZICBqY for the 2/24/26, 2-3pm, free @insidehighered.com-sponsored webcast titled “Fixing the Credit Evaluation System: A Blueprint for the 21st Century Learner.” Panelists will be Carolyn Gentle-Genitty (Butler U), Melanie Gottlieb (AACRAO), Juana Sanchez (Sova), & me.

See Doug Lederman's great piece on why many IHEs could use interim presidents: buff.ly/SFR3kUf Having supervised the evals of 20 CUNY colleges' presidents for 8 yrs, I completely agree that, for many reasons, many avoided necessary, but controversial, acts. #AcademicSky #highered buff.ly/QZo5PsV

In this study of street-identified Black Americans, cannabis use decreased the increase in blood pressure due to severe exposure to violence, but it also decreased "emotional functioning (e.g., symptoms of anxiety and depression)." buff.ly/0lR2CPO #pot #marijuana #psychology #depression #anxiety

"Despite minimal differences between men and women in creative potential and ability", "women are underrepresented as high-achieving creators across domains." This article describes some of the reasons for these findings, developing a model to help explain them: buff.ly/g08PsPh #psychology

It isn't just newly admitted freshmen that IHEs have to worry about not actually enrolling (summer melt; buff.ly/hJuKiuJ), this also happens with new transfer students--students who are admitted to transfer but enroll nowhere (what we call transfer melt, buff.ly/PpWj7gR ). #AcademicSky #highered

Yesterday I posted about LaGuardia Community College (@laguardiacc.bsky.social), CUNY's (@cuny.edu) new grant related to workforce Pell grants. This IHE is also running a free barbershop for Black male students that fosters conversation and community: buff.ly/HmPxh1H #AcademicSky #highered

LaGuardia Community College (@laguardiacc.bsky.social), CUNY (@cuny.edu), has been awarded a $2M FIPSE grant for short-term programs eligible for Workforce Pell in partnership w., eg, nonprofit Per Scholas (buff.ly/ssrrDYM ): buff.ly/WPThbW2 @saraweissman.insidehighered.com #AcademicSky #highered

"National School Choice Week typically highlights the options available to families when selecting a school....But there’s another form of choice that rarely gets the spotlight. It’s a choice about....dual enrollment" (HS students taking college courses) buff.ly/sGeZ449 #AcademicSky #highered

Boston College has an embedded, residential assoc-degree program for students w. financial need. Qualified graduates transfer seamlessly to its bach's degrees. buff.ly/7oxRe2y @bostoncollege.bsky.social Butler University has a similar program. @butleru.bsky.social #AcademicSky #highered

Some #dogs are able to learn the meaning of a great many words ("Gifted Word Learner" dogs). It turns out that these dogs can learn words just by hearing people use them, without those words being directed at the dogs, & do so at least as well as 18-month-old children: buff.ly/k4LHqnh #psychology

How is it that challenging events in your environment can cause your physiology to demonstrate signs of stress? Well, this chain of action may involve the mitochondria in your cells: shttps://buff.ly/y1MsGqR #psychology #AcademicSky #highered

Common App research: Financially independent transfer students constitute a growing % of the total transfer pop. & they're more likely to be trying to transfer many credits, financially challenged, & 1st generation college than are other transfer students. buff.ly/PMmugIk #AcademicSky #highered

Our new #BeyondTransfer @insidehighered.com column introduces the TRANSFER SCORECARD, which uses stats to find out which of 100s of variables are truly associated w. vertical transfer success. E.g. getting an AAS degree 1st hurts success. #AcademicSky #highered buff.ly/E2mgRL0 @ithakasr.bsky.social

It's unfortunate that a #Maryland study could only look at excess credits at graduation to estimate negative effects of transfer on credits (buff.ly/QjG5bOl ); other more detailed approaches show excess credits can exist for reasons other than transfer: buff.ly/iJgYxqU #AcademicSky #highered

Quote of the week: "“I have, from the beginning, been opposed to community colleges offering baccalaureate degrees...I think it is a mistake" Eloy Ortiz Oakley, former Chancellor of the CA Community Colleges. buff.ly/DmVCKWX @mzinshteyn.bsky.social #AcademicSky #highered @collegefutures.bsky.social

The Strong Start to Finish organization has revealed their updated Core Principles & they're great. They include placing all new college students into college-level #Math & English courses by default while providing them w. any corequisite support they need: buff.ly/tz5H3pX #AcademicSky #highered

Apparently, there's more than 1 way that the gene spreads for being able to digest #milk lactose into adulthood. It can be by natural selection (those w. the gene are more likely to survive/reproduce), or just by migration of those w. the gene into another area: buff.ly/n6XULE6 #AcademicSky #food

If 4 people are starving on a stranded lifeboat, is it ok for 3 of them to kill & eat the 4th? This question, based on a real case (the cabin boy was killed), has intrigued students for decades. buff.ly/ql1CoHh For info. on the #psychology of cannibalism see ch. 15 of buff.ly/0NDio5k #AcademicSky

Northern Essex Community College & U Mass Lowell(UML) have a joint admissions program that gives qualified vertical transfer students priority registration at UML & exempts them from UML's core curriculum: buff.ly/I2z9OB4 This is a great strategy for well-trod transfer paths. #AcademicSky #highered

Tips for reframing the college student math readiness discussion. #AcademicSky #highered @lexalogue.bsky.social alsolano.substack.com/p/the-math-p...

We can make things really simple, say Bruce Vandal & Amy Getz. We should eliminate prerequisite developmental (remedial) education for ALL students, and instead provide students with supplementary, corequisite instruction as needed: buff.ly/SDbZwxe #AcademicSky #highered #math #beyondtransfer

Pam Burdman here discusses recent publicity about new @ucsandiego.bsky.social students being underprepared in #math. The problems that actually exist won't be solved by placing students in traditional remediation or admitting fewer from underresourced schools: buff.ly/nIPabuC #AcademicSky #highered

Tho #COVID may have decreased #math prep for college (buff.ly/KQ6iAqT ), IHEs should be careful not to slip back into high-stakes-test-only placement & traditional, prerequisite remediation, which is significantly less effective than corequisite remediation (buff.ly/eLvaFIF ) #highered #AcademicSky

It isn't just public bachelor's IHEs that worry about the competition from community colleges being permitted to offer bachelor's degrees, it's also private bachelor's IHEs, as is happening in #Iowa: buff.ly/HWaNVZm #AcademicSky #highered

Instead of using a slew of meds, Type 2 diabetes patients can significantly decrease their need for meds & their HbA1c by behavioral interventions (coaching) designed by AI & employing various sensors: buff.ly/Xhm1t7P #health #psychology #AcademicSky

Evidence suggests that offering 3-7-year-old children snacks containing a variety of vegetables, and allowing the children to initiate the snack, both increase vegetable consumption, but particularly the first strategy: buff.ly/4WqWLp9 #food #vegetables #psychology #children #AcademicSky

Are 3 types of community colleges: those focusing on programs for bachelor's transfer, those focusing on vocational programs, and those whose focus is mixed. The 1st of these types constitutes the largest % of community colleges, but that % is decreasing: buff.ly/HllpPiU #AcademicSky #highered

As jobs increasingly require bachelor's degrees, many states are authorizing community colleges to offer specific, jobs-oriented, bachelor's degrees. #Iowa is now considering doing this. buff.ly/uCNVXWs #AcademicSky #highered

The American Talent Initiative is succeeding in increasing the # low-income students at selective IHEs, w. the enrollment of these students, adjusted for new Pell criteria, growing c. 40,000 since 2015, w. many being transfer students: buff.ly/ILZxca7 #AcademicSky #highered #Ithakasr.bsky.social

A quasi-experimental analysis of dual enrollment students (high school students taking college courses) obtained evidence that, even 12 years later, the dual enrollment students were earning more than non dual enrollment students. buff.ly/vtClLow #AcademicSky #highered

Almost 30,000 high school students enrolled in courses offered by Maricopa Community Colleges (MCC) last year, and this year it may be even more, moving towards 20% of MCC's total enrollment. buff.ly/eK8pqL6 #AcademicSky #highered

In an online supermarket task, presenting healthier or environmentally sustainable items first resulted in more choices of those items: buff.ly/NOJ7ZQn This research helps us to see the steps we can take to get people to eat healthier, more sustainable foods. #psychology #AcademicSky #health #food