K-12 schools who struggle with teacher recruitment and retention also rely on H-1B visas to fill those gaps. I wonder how a district like Bering Strait School District in Unalakleet, Alaska (population 765), can grapple with the new $100K fee. www.collegetowns.org/p/impact-of-...

K-12 schools who struggle with teacher recruitment and retention also rely on H-1B visas to fill those gaps. I wonder how a district like Bering Strait School District in Unalakleet, Alaska (population 765), can grapple with the new $100K fee. www.collegetowns.org/p/impact-of-...

The conversation around H-1B often centers tech and STEM, but the program is much bigger than that. There are various teachers and educators in both K-12 and higher ed on the visa, including a lot of former international students. My latest: www.collegetowns.org/p/impact-of-...

The conversation around H-1B often centers tech and STEM, but the program is much bigger than that. There are various teachers and educators in both K-12 and higher ed on the visa, including a lot of former international students. My latest: www.collegetowns.org/p/impact-of-...

Apparently there’s a World Tram Driver Championship! Results: 🥇 Austria 🥈 Poland 🥉 Norway US didn’t do well… Let’s get this in the Olympics! Make people excited about public transport. www.collegetowns.org/p/favorite-e...

Apparently there’s a World Tram Driver Championship! Results: 🥇 Austria 🥈 Poland 🥉 Norway US didn’t do well… Let’s get this in the Olympics! Make people excited about public transport. www.collegetowns.org/p/favorite-e...

Queens University of Charlotte is merging with Elon. Beautiful campus. Glad to see it survive, but I am sorry they may end up losing some of their identity in the merger. www.collegetowns.org/p/favorite-e...

Queens University of Charlotte is merging with Elon. Beautiful campus. Glad to see it survive, but I am sorry they may end up losing some of their identity in the merger. www.collegetowns.org/p/favorite-e...

Happy Park(ing) Day to those who celebrate! bsky.app/profile/stro...

Enough with the fake lines, which Eco-Region are you choosing?

One reason I like Waymo better than human ride share drivers is that robots don’t watch football while driving me to the airport.

I like the design of the Zoox autonomous vehicles being tested in SF. Seem ideal for many short, urban trips.

Watching Blue Chips (1994) today is hilarious. The big bad villain is the guy who wants to play players for their work. Oh how the discourse has flipped there! www.collegetowns.org/p/too-much-m...

The race for colleges to recruit the GIs returning from World War II to their football squads sounds a lot like the Transfer Portal today. Funny to think they saved the world and then just came back to live like normal college students. www.collegetowns.org/p/too-much-m...

The race for colleges to recruit the GIs returning from World War II to their football squads sounds a lot like the Transfer Portal today. Funny to think they saved the world and then just came back to live like normal college students. www.collegetowns.org/p/too-much-m...

Money has ruined college football: -Coaches get paid too much! -Players aren’t doing it for the love of the game! -The big schools are outspending the small teams! But wait… these complaints are from 1950. www.collegetowns.org/p/too-much-m...

Everyone complaining about too much money in college football now. We’ve been hearing same complaints since 1940s! My latest in College Towns: www.collegetowns.org/p/too-much-m...

Everyone complaining about too much money in college football now. We’ve been hearing same complaints since 1940s! My latest in College Towns: www.collegetowns.org/p/too-much-m...

"Hit the gas instead of the brakes." Many such cases. If a driver ends up in the middle of the mall, they should never be allowed to drive again. They can walk, take public transit, or hope for wider Waymo rollout.

America needs more neighborhoods where grannies can walk over and hang out on a stoop. We've lost Eyes on the Street.

This photo of a specific demographic group holding up signs that say “boo” to more housing is so perfect.

I really wish people on Bluesky would understand that the main reason housing is so unaffordable in California isn’t because Blackrock, oligarchs, or AirBnb. It’s because of ordinary people like mom dad grandma and grandpa

Largest public universities and colleges in 1994 compared to today. Ballooning growth. This is one reason why smaller universities are closing. www.collegetowns.org/p/us-higher-...

US higher education is in the Age of Conquest. The big get bigger, the small get smaller. This is an overlooked facet in the shuttering college narrative. My latest in College Towns. www.collegetowns.org/p/us-higher-...

Love a good basketball court in the middle of a dense city. Good shade to keep sun out of eyes, too. www.collegetowns.org/p/kowloon-wa...

Welp, summer is officially over. With the new academic year, College Towns is open to guest posts to cover some issues in urbanism and education happening around you locally. DM if interested. www.collegetowns.org/p/kowloon-wa...

Way back in 2004, King of the Hill grappled with discrimination against Asians at elite universities. The cartoon has a lot to tell us about modern American education, culture, and society. www.collegetowns.org/p/the-educat...

#HongKong universities acquiring, repurposing commercial buildings including hotels & shopping malls in a scramble to accommodate an influx of non-local students, mainly from China - my latest for @uniworldnews.bsky.social www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

My Part II in the series on ‘King if the Hill’ reboot. This one is on education. I cover life cycle of education, college admissions, modern dating, generational warfare. www.collegetowns.org/p/the-educat...

My Part II in the series on ‘King if the Hill’ reboot. This one is on education. I cover life cycle of education, college admissions, modern dating, generational warfare. www.collegetowns.org/p/the-educat...

Influx of non-local students to #hongkong, particularly from mainland China has led to universities rushing to secure buildings, converting hotels and even shopping malls to accommodate them @yojanasharma.bsky.social reports www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

If Mont Saint-Michel was in the US.

Want to go for a bike ride? New video. 👇

King of the Hill always relevant. www.collegetowns.org/p/the-urbani...

King of the Hill always relevant. www.collegetowns.org/p/the-urbani...

Travel for me but not for thee. Author pens these two articles: one lauding her motorcycles trips, the other calling people who travel losers. Careful where you get advice. open.substack.com/pub/colleget...

Blasting a homer in the fog under the Great Buddha Dordenma statue. Real yet otherworldly vibes from Bhutan, not AI slop!

Blasting a homer in the fog under the Great Buddha Dordenma statue. Real yet otherworldly vibes from Bhutan, not AI slop!

I owe University of Chicago baseball an apology. I wasn't really familiar with your game.

I owe University of Chicago baseball an apology. I wasn't really familiar with your game

Here’s the clip of CM Padilla bragging about reducing the size of a 100% affordable housing project in her district and increasing the amount of parking while arguing against the transit oriented upzoning bill SB 79. (ED 1 is an affordable housing program in LA.)

Dallas has become 4th largest metro in the US. The metroplex swallows former small towns, making them into suburbs. Perfect depiction of this urbanism transition comes from Arlen in King of the Hill. www.collegetowns.org/p/the-urbani...

I’m with Hank Hill, flexipoles suck.

I’m with Hank Hill, flexipoles suck.

Dale Gribble has a Substack on the new King of the Hill reboot. That was a clear message that I should write about the show. Or maybe that's what they wanted me to think. www.collegetowns.org/p/the-urbani...

Dale Gribble has a Substack on the new King of the Hill reboot. That was a clear message that I should write about the show. Or maybe that's what they wanted me to think. www.collegetowns.org/p/the-urbani...

Shout out to the California local elected officials who banned the construction of new housing for decades, causing the state's population to stagnate while places like Texas grew by 1-2% every year since the 1990s.

Financial Times tried to make a case for wearing shorts to the office. Ridiculous look. But I am thinking we should go back to 1960s NASA with short sleeve and tie. www.collegetowns.org/p/million-do...

This million-dollar house isn’t a sign that Boomers were willing to take risks in undesirable locations. Instead, it’s a story of a generation who pulled the ladder up from behind. www.collegetowns.org/p/million-do...

This million-dollar house isn’t a sign that Boomers were willing to take risks in undesirable locations. Instead, it’s a story of a generation who pulled the ladder up from behind. www.collegetowns.org/p/million-do...