We’re seeing reports of Feds raiding farms in Oxnard and Camarillo today. This just happened in Camarillo.

Trump administration terminated a key contract to train college officials on how to report data to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), a move that could further hamper the Education Department’s data infrastructure.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

It appears that research universities are looking to enroll more undergraduates in the fall to help plug budget gaps created by research funding and international students. That creates new budget gaps farther down the higher ed food chain. finance.yahoo.com/news/elite-c...

The University of Texas's system head is heading west to take the reins at the University of California system. It'll be interesting to see who takes over in Texas, a state with strong funding but a very active legislature and governor.

And the hits keep coming. NSF just cancelled the Louise Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation grant at the CSU. Since its inception in 1993, CSU-LSAMP has served ~30,000 @calstate.bsky.social students (2000/yr), working to increase graduation rates & broaden participation in STEM careers. 🧪

A thing that a lot of people seem to forget: The only way for US consumers to get goods that are both cheap and produced domestically is to pay manufacturing workers *far* less than a living wage.

These guys would rather burn down the country

than have anyone whose doesn’t look like them

have a shred of economic or political power

If any school can pull this off it’s Princeton

It has no medical school, school of public health, or school of education, which rely heavily on federal grants

The IPEDS survey submission site has been down all day with no explanation. Can't say that I've ever seen it down before, let alone for several hours 3 days before reporting is due. Not normal or efficient.

my actual unironic advice to undergrads is to major in something you're actually passionate about/interested in, and then try and *minor* in either CS or stats. you would be surprised how how much being the person who knows a substantive thing and can do some basic computer/stats stuff can pay off

Seems to me what we’re seeing across the federal government are the dividends being paid from years of adopting market language to talk about public goods. Run government like a business? Businesses exist to make profit. Government exists to serve the people. We’re about to see the difference now.

Hearing that nearly all the employees in the statistics agency inside the Education Department -- NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) -- have lost their jobs. Rumors that the NAEP test -- the nation's report card -- will no longer be run by NCES. This info is not confirmed.

When people want to talk to me about the backlash against US higher ed but don't want to mention racism, this is one of the key reasons I become very annoyed

(Also the data used to create this post had its contract canceled this month so are won't be able to track things like this in the future)

🚨 Updated findings of a re-enrollment intervention 🚨

In our new paper, we find that our re-enrollment intervention had no effect on students’ likelihood of long-term persistence or credential completion for the pooled sample and every subgroup of interest.

direct.mit.edu/edfp/article...