@bvisger.bsky.social
Higher education policy geek with a terminal case of curiosity. UConn hoops enjoyer.
Seems like we've already learned more about Tyler Robinson than we ever heard about Thomas Crooks. I'm still baffled at how little we know about why Crooks shot at Trump.
September 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Seems like we've already learned more about Tyler Robinson than we ever heard about Thomas Crooks. I'm still baffled at how little we know about why Crooks shot at Trump.
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Davis Square, Somerville
March 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Davis Square, Somerville
"Education, therefore, is a process for living and not a preparation for future living." John Dewey
March 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
"Education, therefore, is a process for living and not a preparation for future living." John Dewey
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If anyone at the Department of Education wants to add me to the “Let’s sell the federal student loan portfolio to SoFi for 12 cents on the dollar” group text I pinky-promise your secrets are safe with me.
March 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
If anyone at the Department of Education wants to add me to the “Let’s sell the federal student loan portfolio to SoFi for 12 cents on the dollar” group text I pinky-promise your secrets are safe with me.
Quote of the day:
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Stephen Hawking
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Stephen Hawking
March 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Quote of the day:
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Stephen Hawking
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Stephen Hawking
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This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
March 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
None of this shit should be normalized.
March 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
None of this shit should be normalized.
I'm going to bet there is no way Tony Stark would have eight of his rockets blow up before finding a solution.
March 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I'm going to bet there is no way Tony Stark would have eight of his rockets blow up before finding a solution.
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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
english.elpais.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
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"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
March 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
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If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.
March 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.
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Researchers do research. Parents are not “doing their own research” on vaccines. They’re just googling.
It’s the same tool the rest of us use to figure out “Mexican food near me” and “what happened to Richie from Family Matters.”
It’s the same tool the rest of us use to figure out “Mexican food near me” and “what happened to Richie from Family Matters.”
March 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Researchers do research. Parents are not “doing their own research” on vaccines. They’re just googling.
It’s the same tool the rest of us use to figure out “Mexican food near me” and “what happened to Richie from Family Matters.”
It’s the same tool the rest of us use to figure out “Mexican food near me” and “what happened to Richie from Family Matters.”
Please show me data and evidence that white men have been materially disadvantaged by efforts to improve DEI.
March 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Please show me data and evidence that white men have been materially disadvantaged by efforts to improve DEI.
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The Trump administration plans to withhold funding to universities if students protest - a clear violation of the first amendment.
This is a battle the Trump Administration will not win. BUT, winning isn't the point. The point is to make life hard for the university.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
This is a battle the Trump Administration will not win. BUT, winning isn't the point. The point is to make life hard for the university.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Trump Threatens to Pull Funding From Universities Over Protests
Legal experts said holding back federal financing would violate First Amendment protections.
www.wsj.com
March 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The Trump administration plans to withhold funding to universities if students protest - a clear violation of the first amendment.
This is a battle the Trump Administration will not win. BUT, winning isn't the point. The point is to make life hard for the university.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
This is a battle the Trump Administration will not win. BUT, winning isn't the point. The point is to make life hard for the university.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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My attempt at trying to make sense of the many drivers behind the current Trump administration policies. What would you add/change?
March 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
My attempt at trying to make sense of the many drivers behind the current Trump administration policies. What would you add/change?
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“Millions of us are used by the wealthiest elites to perpetuate and do the dirty work of keeping systemic racism alive and thriving in the USA. It’s not our place to decide and tell Black and brown people that their reality does not exist.”
www.linkedin.com/posts/synerg...
www.linkedin.com/posts/synerg...
February 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“Millions of us are used by the wealthiest elites to perpetuate and do the dirty work of keeping systemic racism alive and thriving in the USA. It’s not our place to decide and tell Black and brown people that their reality does not exist.”
www.linkedin.com/posts/synerg...
www.linkedin.com/posts/synerg...
A number of years ago, I heard the administrator over the air traffic controllers on NPR make an important point. "We're unique in that our job demands a 100 percent success rate. 99.9 percent isn't good enough. It has to be 100." I truly hope that mentality is still in place.
February 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
A number of years ago, I heard the administrator over the air traffic controllers on NPR make an important point. "We're unique in that our job demands a 100 percent success rate. 99.9 percent isn't good enough. It has to be 100." I truly hope that mentality is still in place.
There is an irony to an administration that decries the value of bureaucrats deploying a bunch of people that amount to bureaucrats to do their bidding
February 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
There is an irony to an administration that decries the value of bureaucrats deploying a bunch of people that amount to bureaucrats to do their bidding
I love examples of real braided funding. Well done!
It's easy to talk about braiding funding but who is actually making it work? @educationwork.newamerica.org latest blog by Lancy Downs tackles how Colorado is weaving funding to support apprenticeship programs www.newamerica.org/education-po...
How Colorado Is Breaking Down Apprenticeship Funding Barriers
The state is making apprenticeship funding more flexible and navigable for practitioners.
www.newamerica.org
February 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I love examples of real braided funding. Well done!
Why does someone in an unelected and unaccountable role have so much authority?
February 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Why does someone in an unelected and unaccountable role have so much authority?
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Washington is full of rule-following valedictorians who were inspired by the West Wing and did Model UN and moot court and studied their heroes and who believe in using government to help people.
That's nice, but you need to learn how to swing on the illiterate bullies who steal lunch money.
That's nice, but you need to learn how to swing on the illiterate bullies who steal lunch money.
January 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Washington is full of rule-following valedictorians who were inspired by the West Wing and did Model UN and moot court and studied their heroes and who believe in using government to help people.
That's nice, but you need to learn how to swing on the illiterate bullies who steal lunch money.
That's nice, but you need to learn how to swing on the illiterate bullies who steal lunch money.
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a black kid admitted to a selective college under an affirmative action program in say 2019 is almost certainly more qualified to attend the institution than 90% of alums from the previous generation, just by virtue of the dramatically increased competition
January 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
a black kid admitted to a selective college under an affirmative action program in say 2019 is almost certainly more qualified to attend the institution than 90% of alums from the previous generation, just by virtue of the dramatically increased competition
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The focus has been the freeze, but absent or after the freeze, there will be huge losses. For example, will researchers be allowed to study health disparities? Will there be funding to investigate disparate environmental impacts? Heck, what about the student achievement gap? Is that too woke?
NSF grantees - people who have already received their grants based on a previously funded and approved research proposal - are being told to stop any activities related to DEI and accessibility.
Call this what it is: government censorship of ongoing research projects.
www.opm.gov/policy-data-...
Call this what it is: government censorship of ongoing research projects.
www.opm.gov/policy-data-...
January 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The focus has been the freeze, but absent or after the freeze, there will be huge losses. For example, will researchers be allowed to study health disparities? Will there be funding to investigate disparate environmental impacts? Heck, what about the student achievement gap? Is that too woke?