Eddy Conroy
@econroy.bsky.social
“There’s some good in this world… and it’s worth fighting for”
Running comms for National College Attainment Network, all things higher ed policy and practice.
Plus food and cocktails
Running comms for National College Attainment Network, all things higher ed policy and practice.
Plus food and cocktails
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Eddy Conroy
@econroy.bsky.social
· Jun 26
Ousted from Opportunity: Eviction's Adverse Impact on Parenting College Students
New America partnered with the Eviction Lab to understand how eviction affects parents who are attending college while caring for children—and found it likely leads to severe negative consequences.
www.newamerica.org
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🚨New publication alert!
We just published a brief on what happens to parenting students' chances of success in college when they are threatened with eviction. The results are devastating. I have never cried when writing up research before. I did this time.
www.newamerica.org/education-po...
🚨New publication alert!
We just published a brief on what happens to parenting students' chances of success in college when they are threatened with eviction. The results are devastating. I have never cried when writing up research before. I did this time.
www.newamerica.org/education-po...
My apologies to @elizabeth-morgan.bsky.social and the NCAN team, but I’m giving up on higher ed to become a pirate.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
To stop drug boats, GOP lawmakers want to license privateers
A bill introduced Thursday looks to revive a presidential power from the age of sail, by which Trump could issue letters of marque authorizing private raids at sea.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
My apologies to @elizabeth-morgan.bsky.social and the NCAN team, but I’m giving up on higher ed to become a pirate.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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I see they haven't learned about the Streisand Effect.
Of course they are — good luck putting the cat back in the bag, Bari. All you’re doing is guaranteeing more people will see it. #CBSNewsmax
December 23, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I see they haven't learned about the Streisand Effect.
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It's worth watching for yourself.
cecot-60mins.mp4
drive.google.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
It's worth watching for yourself.
There is something to be said about having rolled up your sleeves, and earning the right to be highly critical of institutions you want to see realizing their highest potential.
One consistent theme of the anti-institutionalists is that they have not run the institutions they despise. The is akin to Rufo overseeing the implosion of New College, despite both institutions been handed massive financial resources.
CBS News staffers might want to check into how things are going at their boss’s anti-woke “university” in Austin.
Via @ngluckman.bsky.social
www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...
Via @ngluckman.bsky.social
www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...
December 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
There is something to be said about having rolled up your sleeves, and earning the right to be highly critical of institutions you want to see realizing their highest potential.
Does Susie Wiles know that therapists and priests exist as options for unburdening yourself?
December 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Does Susie Wiles know that therapists and priests exist as options for unburdening yourself?
I’ve got bad news about Liz Truss’ “authority” on, well really anything, for Trumps legal team.
December 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I’ve got bad news about Liz Truss’ “authority” on, well really anything, for Trumps legal team.
Look, I’m old enough to remember the last time someone pulled this one.
It. Did. Not. End. Well.
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
It. Did. Not. End. Well.
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Designates Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
DEFENDING AMERICA FROM A CHEMICAL WEAPON: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order designating illicit fentanyl and its core precursor
www.whitehouse.gov
December 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Look, I’m old enough to remember the last time someone pulled this one.
It. Did. Not. End. Well.
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
It. Did. Not. End. Well.
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
The split screen between Australia and the USA this week makes me weep.
Nothing will change here, while laws will likely be strengthened in a country that already had strict gun control.
Nothing will change here, while laws will likely be strengthened in a country that already had strict gun control.
Australia already has some of the world's toughest gun laws, but the Bondi mass shooting could lead to even tougher rules as the realization spreads that they aren't strong enough to prevent bloodshed. https://cnn.it/4pdQBDP
December 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The split screen between Australia and the USA this week makes me weep.
Nothing will change here, while laws will likely be strengthened in a country that already had strict gun control.
Nothing will change here, while laws will likely be strengthened in a country that already had strict gun control.
WashPo making a bold play to convince folks that they are just imagining that they can’t afford to feed their families.
December 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
WashPo making a bold play to convince folks that they are just imagining that they can’t afford to feed their families.
Feels like some of the folks wringing their hands about this could start be ending their messaging war about whether college has value or not.
December 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Feels like some of the folks wringing their hands about this could start be ending their messaging war about whether college has value or not.
Guess my family won't be coming to visit any time soon.
Tourism revenue is down about $12 billion this year, nice to see the administration trying to get tourism dollar as close to zero as possible.
Tourism revenue is down about $12 billion this year, nice to see the administration trying to get tourism dollar as close to zero as possible.
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Guess my family won't be coming to visit any time soon.
Tourism revenue is down about $12 billion this year, nice to see the administration trying to get tourism dollar as close to zero as possible.
Tourism revenue is down about $12 billion this year, nice to see the administration trying to get tourism dollar as close to zero as possible.
Indiana senate looking at those vote margins as they voted on redistricting
a donkey from shrek is standing in the dirt and says nope on the bottom
ALT: a donkey from shrek is standing in the dirt and says nope on the bottom
media.tenor.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Indiana senate looking at those vote margins as they voted on redistricting
Oh yes, when I needed physical therapy earlier this year I could shop among the seven PT locations within ten miles.
All run by the Inova health system. Choices abound!
The idea that any can “shop” for healthcare, like it’s the same as new pair of shoes, continues to be a moronic idea.
All run by the Inova health system. Choices abound!
The idea that any can “shop” for healthcare, like it’s the same as new pair of shoes, continues to be a moronic idea.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Oh yes, when I needed physical therapy earlier this year I could shop among the seven PT locations within ten miles.
All run by the Inova health system. Choices abound!
The idea that any can “shop” for healthcare, like it’s the same as new pair of shoes, continues to be a moronic idea.
All run by the Inova health system. Choices abound!
The idea that any can “shop” for healthcare, like it’s the same as new pair of shoes, continues to be a moronic idea.
🧵1/n Don't turn your overnight oats into a grenade!
What the hell, I hear you ask? Well, gather round for a thread of light relief.
What the hell, I hear you ask? Well, gather round for a thread of light relief.
December 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
🧵1/n Don't turn your overnight oats into a grenade!
What the hell, I hear you ask? Well, gather round for a thread of light relief.
What the hell, I hear you ask? Well, gather round for a thread of light relief.
For new high school graduates, starting off with an associate or bachelors degree program is probably a better path to long-term career success and economic security.
That is the takeaway from my new boss' piece on workforce pell programs.
Read and share.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
That is the takeaway from my new boss' piece on workforce pell programs.
Read and share.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Regulations Must Get Workforce Pell Right (opinion)
Many young people will be better served by going straight to degree programs—not using up their Pell eligibility on short-term programs. The regulations should account for this.
www.insidehighered.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
For new high school graduates, starting off with an associate or bachelors degree program is probably a better path to long-term career success and economic security.
That is the takeaway from my new boss' piece on workforce pell programs.
Read and share.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
That is the takeaway from my new boss' piece on workforce pell programs.
Read and share.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
I cannot imagine how devastated I would have been if I had gotten to that day and been turned away.
Abhorrent to do this.
Abhorrent to do this.
If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I cannot imagine how devastated I would have been if I had gotten to that day and been turned away.
Abhorrent to do this.
Abhorrent to do this.
Hand on my heart. I’m
Watching a 30 years old+ man get on the DC metro wearing a circa 2001 plastic choker necklace.
I don’t know if I should applaud or laugh.
Watching a 30 years old+ man get on the DC metro wearing a circa 2001 plastic choker necklace.
I don’t know if I should applaud or laugh.
December 5, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Hand on my heart. I’m
Watching a 30 years old+ man get on the DC metro wearing a circa 2001 plastic choker necklace.
I don’t know if I should applaud or laugh.
Watching a 30 years old+ man get on the DC metro wearing a circa 2001 plastic choker necklace.
I don’t know if I should applaud or laugh.
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Historian here it’s Hannah Arendt’s death anniversary and she was of course prescient.
December 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Historian here it’s Hannah Arendt’s death anniversary and she was of course prescient.
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Me & my friends had thoughts!!
Kicker: "Baker grew up in VA & lived in the South most of her life. She finds it astounding that anyone would think of a public university in the South as apolitical. 'No one who lives in the South,' she says, 'believes that Southern universities are not political.'"
Kicker: "Baker grew up in VA & lived in the South most of her life. She finds it astounding that anyone would think of a public university in the South as apolitical. 'No one who lives in the South,' she says, 'believes that Southern universities are not political.'"
This is a thoughtful and well-researched piece (featuring quite a few higher ed faculty members, including me) on the growth of most SEC universities. The reasons behind this growth are complex.
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
How SEC Universities Won the Enrollment Wars
The ascendance of Southern flagships is a story of sun, football, and a sophisticated recruitment strategy.
www.chronicle.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Me & my friends had thoughts!!
Kicker: "Baker grew up in VA & lived in the South most of her life. She finds it astounding that anyone would think of a public university in the South as apolitical. 'No one who lives in the South,' she says, 'believes that Southern universities are not political.'"
Kicker: "Baker grew up in VA & lived in the South most of her life. She finds it astounding that anyone would think of a public university in the South as apolitical. 'No one who lives in the South,' she says, 'believes that Southern universities are not political.'"
“The truth shall set you up for fees”
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
“The truth shall set you up for fees”
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This is the point. If the Dems gained 17 points here then any district that had a margin of 17 points or less is vulnerable and the GOP knows it and they are freaking out.
That sound you hear? It’s incumbent republicans suddenly going quiet on redistricting if a Trump +22 district becomes a +5 district.
December 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is the point. If the Dems gained 17 points here then any district that had a margin of 17 points or less is vulnerable and the GOP knows it and they are freaking out.
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This
That sound you hear? It’s incumbent republicans suddenly going quiet on redistricting if a Trump +22 district becomes a +5 district.
December 3, 2025 at 2:26 AM
This
That sound you hear? It’s incumbent republicans suddenly going quiet on redistricting if a Trump +22 district becomes a +5 district.
December 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
That sound you hear? It’s incumbent republicans suddenly going quiet on redistricting if a Trump +22 district becomes a +5 district.