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Not *the* clip but sorry to the students in my classes as I will be using this to discuss: * institutions making first-order changes only * deflections from developmental growth * shared governance * the hilarious things I saw this break

I *need* the clip of them pushing the stage back off the field 😂

I have *many* a Miami fan in my family (cause duh) and I’m very excited for them and the way this coach actively describes his desire for his team to be “violent” is…something.

This legislation is gutting. I cannot adequately convey the amount of trans youth and young adults I’ve talked to, worked alongside, and supported who have discussed the ways transition-related care saved their lives and increased their life chances.

"I didn’t have the courage to come out until I was 21, and that means 21 years of pain, 21 years of unwavering homesickness that only went away when I was able to get the care that I needed. And my biggest regret in life is that I never had a childhood without that pain.”

“This bill... creates an incredibly dangerous precedent far beyond the specific care at issue, criminalizing care based on ideology and placing Washington politicians between families and their doctors." -Mike Zamore, ACLU

Tenth and final defense of the semester is here (fifth as chair); thankful for great advisees working hard and the semester being *almost* over

Last day of book club—and I’ve got plenty more notes to take—but I broke out the Apple Pencil for @drkevinrmcclure.com’s _The Caring University_

Comedian Tig Notaro tells me losing her friend Andrea Gibson has been "one of the most confusing grieving processes I've gone through." The death of Colorado's poet laureate has made Notaro open to the idea of an afterlife. Read/listen to our chat about the new documentary Notaro co-produced:

The tree outside my office never fails to deliver a good workday view

The founder of Black Pride Colorado, an LGBTQ organization, posted that their office was broken into. They believe it to be targeted. Not too long ago, The Center on Colfax was also vandalized. “Another fracture in our ecosystem that has held so many of us when the world would not.”

Don’t read this if you haven’t watched the new Knives Out movie but I wrote about how the series only works because Blanc doesn’t treat the mysteries like a game but is always protecting the most vulnerable individual in the case open.substack.com/pub/somethin...

The Colorado Sun sat down with Chancellor Marielena DeSanctis to talk about the future of the state’s 13 community colleges, each of which she calls an “economic development engine.”

"The report suggested Education has not landed on its statutory authority for making the changes. The unobligated funds to transfer over and the authority for doing so 'must be identified before the transition begins,' it said in the report. " www.govexec.com/management/2...

Still haven't read the full agreement because I deserve nice things occasionally. But there's really a need for a propublica-type investigation into the social network of these boards, presidents, & donors with the admin. At the same time, exploring the similarities and differences across deals.

“Come See Me In The Good Light” helps us understand the immensity of what we lost with the death of Colorado Poet Laureate Andrea Gibson. It’s streaming on Apple TV. Maybe the holiday gives you time to watch. Wednesday on Colorado Matters, I’ll speak with Andrea’s friend Tig Notaro, a co-producer.

Sick to my stomach. They are cutting a really, really strong Educational Administration department with some top-notch faculty. There is very little public service ethos left in higher ed. You either contribute to revenue/prestige in particular ways, or you are expendable.

Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system" Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla. Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207 Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765 www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...

I wrote about the University of Nebraska at Lincoln’s recent proposal to cut six academic programs. Campus leaders say they need to close a budget gap. Professors say the process has been opaque and flawed.

Police, teachers, nurses could be denied loan forgiveness under Trump’s new rule, according to lawsuit www.cpr.org/2025/11/04/t... #AcademicSky #EDUSky @cprnews.bsky.social #HigherEd @pslfdefense.bsky.social

Rereading some passages this morning in preparation for our School’s book club meeting today, which is reading @drkevinrmcclure.com’s _The Caring University_. I know I’m late to the party on this but wow what a read it’s been so far!

*dusts off the feed*

Once again, I'm asking technologists to ask not "can we do this" but instead "do people want this?"

This is why a number of us have expected the grants for enrollment-based MSIs to go www.insidehighered.com/news/institu...

First day of school means a bunch of cross-institution emails flying and I have a small fascination with how campus IT departments deal with phishing. Mine (top image) is simple but we get fake emails from the university to “test” us. Meanwhile just saw the one at the bottom and it feels like ALOT 😳

It’s the start of year 5 doing this professor thing. Let’s see how this round goes!

Columbia agrees to additional restrictions on international students as a part of their effort to potentially recoup a portion of withheld research funding.

Whoever is training these chat bots, I promise you: the performance of empathy in text does not translate to keeping calm or feeling understood when you know it’s auto-generated and you have an urgent issue.

Columbia functionally returning to its original name King’s College

A sad aspect of this situation is that other university leaders will think this is the way to appease an authoritarian. The other is that they’ll be surprised when more is demanded of them down the road. In the years to come, people will remind them ‘I hear what you say, but I see what you do.’

Breaking news: Columbia University has reached an extraordinary deal with the Trump administration, agreeing to pay $200 million to resolve the government's claims of antisemitism on the campus. chroni.cl/4mgRHO1

The assault on higher education is not just about coastal elite schools. "Federal agencies terminated or were attempting to terminate more than 4,000 grants across over 600 institutions. These grants are worth between $6.9 billion and $8.2 billion combined." www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” will make it harder for many community college students to afford food and healthcare. Read a new report from @americanprogress.bsky.social about how affording basic living expenses are increasingly a barrier for community college students’ success.

A calm 24 hours in Colorado: a former senator facing criminal charges for allegedly faking letters of support in an ethics probe; revelations about Rep. Gabe Evans’ background; the state saying it mistakenly gave data to ICE; & Gov. Polis pledging to stop himself from building a bridge no one wants.

Doing a weeklong policy course was exhausting, and wow was it good to get five days to pull apart and fully comprehend everything that’s happening in and to higher education in policy systems in the last seven months with insightful doc students.

I thought the press descriptions had to be at least slightly off. But they are completely accurate. America First is literally arguing that the disparate impact of free tuition for all families making <$300K per year “masks racial preferences behind income thresholds.”

Note also that the lawsuit alleges that because race and class are correlated, providing free tuition to lower income students is also racial preference. They just want a pure aristocracy of inherited wealth

Straight from @Nature and @CooperBioEdLab: The largest survey of LGBTQ+ biologists finds that 40% of trans and gender-nonconforming and 20% of LGBQ researchers face hostility, intimidation, or offensive behavior at work. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It’s federal policy systems day in my education policy class! Felt like an apt opening image.

🧵 For our special issue on research, @chronicle.com dove into how the scientific enterprise has been buffeted by the Trump administration. As Jenny Ruark writes in her editor's note, "the speed of retrenchment is breathtaking." We wrote about how we got here, and what might be next. #AcademicSky

SCOTUS when Biden administration seeks to reduce student loan debt: Major question where they have to jump in and block before any action takes place. SCOTUS when Trump eliminates the entire Department of Education: Lets see how this plays out, no need to intervene right now.

Welp. That was fast. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

It is the fifth day of our PhD summer intensive but my first day of class! Fingers crossed for no breaking higher education policy-related news this week 🤞🏼