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drallb.bsky.social
@drallb.bsky.social
Edu Psych researcher helping to make higher ed work better for students. 🧡 running, the ocean, and always on mom-mode. 🇲🇽 Tapatia to the core.
San Francisco
Find me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/larabrady
Interested in learning how we are helping community colleges integrate student success initiatives, scale equity efforts, and strengthen data-driven decision-making?

Tune in this morning at 9 am pst to hear more about it!

#VARAcademy
#TheRPGroup
#WestEd

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System Webinars | California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office
The Chancellor’s Office is excited to announce our monthly webinar series. Webinars will cover systemwide topics important to all who are affiliated with the California community colleges.
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July 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Attending #AERA25 today? Stop by our Equity & Inclusion Committee Invited Session on “Politics and Policy: Navigating the Challenges, Opportunities, and Implementation of DEI Initiatives and AI in the Future of Educational Research”
🕚 11:40 AM – 1:10 PM in Room 704!

@aeraedresearch.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Great time convening with fellows and colleagues discussing how we can develop new research architectures to tackle equity work.

“Adaptation can be our resistance”

Time to get some rest and prep for tomorrow’s session

@aeraedresearch.bsky.social
#AERA25
@wested.org
April 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Somehow I always forget about the non-stop pace while attending conferences 😵‍💫😆

#AERA2025
@aeraedresearch.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Great session by Thomas Philip from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social on AI in education and the need for a pedagogical framework.

Once we peel out the allure of technology, what’s behind good teaching?

#MoveSlowAndBuild
@aeraedresearch.bsky.social
#AERA25
April 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"Leaders are better positioned to advocate for higher education and respond to emerging threats when working within a coalition"💪
This new publication draws attention to the coalition building and active engagement needed to effectively disrupt efforts to suppress the educational mission of higher education. @garceslm.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A Call to Build Coalitions to Disrupt a Climate of Suppression
Published in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning (Vol. 57, No. 2, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
April 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Another reason to work on aligning pathways and streamlining transfers between
@calcommcolleges.bsky.social and the @calstate.bsky.social. There are 116 community colleges in the state and only 23 CSU campuses.

Via @kqednews.kqed.org
www.kqed.org/news/1203032...
SF State Joins Wave of CSU Campuses Making Deep Spending Cuts | KQED
SF State plans to eliminate men’s soccer, baseball, and women’s indoor track and field teams in July.
www.kqed.org
March 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The real cost of a college degree has been going down. The effect of this system “is most pronounced for low-income families but middle and upper-middle-income families receive substantial discounts too”

Now is time to highlights its importance

@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Secret That Colleges Should Stop Keeping
Despite ever-higher sticker prices, the real cost of getting a degree has been going down.
www.theatlantic.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
"In 2022, 4.5 m CA workers were employed in the 20 high automation risk occupations. More than half (52%) of California high-risk workers were Latino

Automation Is a Latino Issue"

@uclalppi.bsky.social

latino.ucla.edu/research/lat...
February 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Now more than ever having an educated population is crucial for growth and stabilty. Looking forward to learning more about @collegefutures.bsky.social's goal of having at least 70% of CA learners reach a postsec degree/cert in 10 years
#EdEquity #CollegeSuccess

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February 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"There is an urgent need for targeted interventions to build the research capacity of [Minority Serving Institutions] and enable equitable participation in the nation’s innovation agenda."

#R1Team
#AcademicSky
Check out this blog discussing how minority-serving institutions are key to a stronger R&D Ecosystem written by Jinann Bitar, our Director of Higher Education Research and Data Analytics and featured on the Alliance for Learning Innovation (ALI) blog. Read More: edtru.st/42FQWXZ
Minority-Serving Institutions Are Key To A Stronger R&D Ecosystem
The U.S. boasts a rich and diverse higher education system, yet structural inequities persist in how federal research and development (R&D) funding is distributed. Minority-serving institutions (MSIs)...
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February 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Viewing Policy and Research Through the Lens of Geography - TICAS' newest report explores a new framework to think about college access, affordability, basic needs, & student success. Getting at the root causes behind educational inequality.
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ticas.org
February 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Reposted
House Resolution 899 has been introduced to Congress by Kentucky GOP Rep. Thomas Massie to abolish the U.S. Department of Education.

Follow this link to get alerts www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
February 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A timely reminder from @girouxh.bsky.social
“education is a critical counterweight to the current language of hatred, bigotry, and violence” It should teach students how 2 critically analyze the root causes of injustice and the impact of other systems of oppression

https://shorturl.at/SI5nV
Educators as public intellectuals and the challenge of fascism - Henry A Giroux, 2024
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January 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
And as always, Celia Martinez keeping it real and raw with a 🔥 poem

@yalepress.bsky.social
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January 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
A timely reminder from Dr Marvin Carr : "Equity work must evolve into the work of liberation"

Check out his 15 min keynote session at the @csforall.bsky.social summit

vimeo.com/295806325
CSforALL Summit 2018 - FEATURED KEYNOTE: There is a Way - CS, a Tool for Liberation
This is "CSforALL Summit 2018 - FEATURED KEYNOTE: There is a Way - CS, a Tool for Liberation" by CSforALL on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and…
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January 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Reposted
This is a thread meant to be useful to nerds. Here is Trump's list of revoked Executive Orders. I am about to make a thread with links to all of them. (Why should anyone else have to repeat this work?)

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Merging CA’s 3 systems of higher ed provokes thought about how to create fundamental transformation 🙌🏽

“This new configuration eliminates transfer issues, reduces competition for resources, and provides seamless pathways for students through college and into careers”

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UPDATE: UC, CSU and community colleges should merge into single university, report urges
The latest education news updates from EdSource.
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December 18, 2024 at 12:58 AM
Celebrating 15 years since the culmination of my studies kick started a rewarding and impactful professional career.

Here is to the next 15!

#Quinceañera
December 16, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Howard University to gain R-1 designation - even after surpassing the criteria in previous years.

"the [R1] designation has eluded HBCUs, many of which remain hampered by chronic underfunding and other challenges."

via: Inside Higher Ed
www.insidehighered.com/news/institu...
Howard expects to gain R-1, with other HBCUs soon to follow
Howard University would be the only historically Black institution to earn the Carnegie Foundation’s coveted classification, but certainly not the last.
www.insidehighered.com
December 9, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Fascinated reading Laura E Gomez’s Inventing Latinos

“For one thing, the tendency to think of Latinos in ethnic terms perpetuates the idea that Latinos are perpetual foreigners rather than bonafide Americans”
@uclalaw.bsky.social
December 5, 2024 at 4:37 PM
How do you catalyze collaborative change?
3 key ingredients include: build with intentionality, have a strong foundation, and engage meaningfully with communities

#NSFINCLUDES2024
#AccessibilityinSTEM
#STEMInclusion
#STEMSuccess

www.includesnetwork.org/event/the-ns...
The NSF Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES National Network 2024 Topical Conference: Designing for Accessibility and Student Success in STEM - The NSF Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES National Network
Attendees will learn from experts and gain actionable strategies to enhance inclusion in STEM education and workforce settings.
www.includesnetwork.org
November 18, 2024 at 2:34 PM