Jane Van Galen
janevg.bsky.social
Jane Van Galen
@janevg.bsky.social
Recovering academic now writing about social class and first-gen students, growing carrots, and fighting for democracy.

Writing at https://ghost.edandclass.com/

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A shocking number of people seem not to understand this joke. I’d encourage them to 86 themselves from my replies!
May 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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"In a preliminary budget released last week, the White House proposed billions of dollars in cuts to education funding, including eliminating all federal support for TRIO programs." www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
How Trump’s Proposed TRIO Cuts Could Hamper College Access
The Trump administration wants to eliminate the federally funded student support program. That could be devastating for low-income students and the institutions that serve them.
www.insidehighered.com
May 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Massive cuts to the ERIC data base staff already, and possibly even more this week. I contacted my congressional delegation urging them to demand congressional appropriations for ERIC be spent. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
A treasure trove of education reports and studies is under threat
Funding for the Education Department’s online library, ERIC, is slated to end this week
hechingerreport.org
April 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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As of this morning, we've tracked over 600 student visa revocations at more than 100 colleges.

That's double yesterday morning's count. Send updates to me or @amowreader.com and follow @insidehighered.com interactive visa map here: www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
Where Students Have Had Their Visas Revoked
The Trump administration has quietly revoked hundreds of student visas across the country, wreaking havoc on the system.
www.insidehighered.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I read this week that one thing we can do now is to talk to our own public squares. So I wrote a thing about 16,000,000 kids in the US still being without reliable home internet, and the FCC now dismantling regs to fix this because we can no longer do equity.
ghost.edandclass.com/structural-e...
Structural Economic Barriers: Internet Access
When I taught elementary school in southern Appalachia early in my career, none of the very low-income children in my classes had telephones at home. In the time of landlines, telecom companies had no...
ghost.edandclass.com
February 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM