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“Like their four-year counterparts, community colleges are grappling with disappearing federal grants, shuttered D.E.I. offices, eliminated programs… many of the grants that fund financial aid for low-income students and the staff that support them have been eliminated or threatened”
Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.
www.nytimes.com
August 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
“Like their four-year counterparts, community colleges are grappling with disappearing federal grants, shuttered D.E.I. offices, eliminated programs… many of the grants that fund financial aid for low-income students and the staff that support them have been eliminated or threatened”
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I hope people are following the money on this as well because my spidey senses for graft have been tingling (ya know beyond the general corruption vibes)
“The UNC System is leaving its current accrediting body to join with FL, TX, SC, TN, & GA to form a new group. It’s the brain-child of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican & possible 2028 presidential candidate, who has said they’ll fight against the “woke” standards used by other accreditors.”
UNC System leaders to meet ahead of new school year, as financial pressures loom
Financial pressures from the state legislature, the Trump administration and the changing landscape of college athletics all present issues for public universities in North Carolina about to kick off ...
www.wral.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I hope people are following the money on this as well because my spidey senses for graft have been tingling (ya know beyond the general corruption vibes)
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Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a press conference this morning in which I expect him to announce details on an effort to launch a new accreditor. Watch here at 10 a.m. ET:
thefloridachannel.org
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June 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a press conference this morning in which I expect him to announce details on an effort to launch a new accreditor. Watch here at 10 a.m. ET:
thefloridachannel.org
thefloridachannel.org
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1) EOs aren't laws or magic. They don't rewrite reality.
2) Trump is not a king, even if he tries to act like it, and he cannot even enforce half of these orders.
3) The institutions that cave are run by people who want to cave, either through cowardice or complicity.
2) Trump is not a king, even if he tries to act like it, and he cannot even enforce half of these orders.
3) The institutions that cave are run by people who want to cave, either through cowardice or complicity.
Just a reminder that most of Trump's executive orders are nothing more than press releases.
After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.
After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.
![WASHINGTON, D.C, (May 2, 2025) — Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), issued the following statement today regarding the President’s Executive Order on public media:
“CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority. Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government.
“In creating CPB, Congress expressly forbade ‘any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors…’ 47 U.S.C. § 398(c).”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kjjhbsc3pp3vkqjsivk6z2yd/bafkreie7ky7hw4h6fcaqa6fkkqdyhg6czlebc2udp6fbbsjah4eoj7qg2y@jpeg)
May 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
1) EOs aren't laws or magic. They don't rewrite reality.
2) Trump is not a king, even if he tries to act like it, and he cannot even enforce half of these orders.
3) The institutions that cave are run by people who want to cave, either through cowardice or complicity.
2) Trump is not a king, even if he tries to act like it, and he cannot even enforce half of these orders.
3) The institutions that cave are run by people who want to cave, either through cowardice or complicity.
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The first step in policy analysis is figuring out what's going wrong. And by my view, we're facing two crises: A tariff crisis, and a crisis of confidence built upon fears incompetence.
Let me lay it out, wonk it out and math it out.
(I get a bit testy because I think this stuff really matters.)
Let me lay it out, wonk it out and math it out.
(I get a bit testy because I think this stuff really matters.)
April 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The first step in policy analysis is figuring out what's going wrong. And by my view, we're facing two crises: A tariff crisis, and a crisis of confidence built upon fears incompetence.
Let me lay it out, wonk it out and math it out.
(I get a bit testy because I think this stuff really matters.)
Let me lay it out, wonk it out and math it out.
(I get a bit testy because I think this stuff really matters.)
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Trump sent his cabinet to the Sunday shows to reassure, and they said the tariffs are permanent/being negotiated, strategic/across the board and will fix the trade deficit/manufacturing/national defense/toe fungus.
Collectively they made it clear there's no plan beyond one man's whims.
Collectively they made it clear there's no plan beyond one man's whims.
Every Cabinet member has different, contradictory talking points about supposed purpose of these tariffs.
Are they a negotiating tactic? Are they instead permanent, because we need them to raise revenue/boost US manufacturing?
Are they designed to return us to 1790s lifestyles & living standards?
Are they a negotiating tactic? Are they instead permanent, because we need them to raise revenue/boost US manufacturing?
Are they designed to return us to 1790s lifestyles & living standards?
April 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Trump sent his cabinet to the Sunday shows to reassure, and they said the tariffs are permanent/being negotiated, strategic/across the board and will fix the trade deficit/manufacturing/national defense/toe fungus.
Collectively they made it clear there's no plan beyond one man's whims.
Collectively they made it clear there's no plan beyond one man's whims.
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The Caring University is now available for pre-order!
It's about structural and cultural change to improve the higher ed workplace.
See the ToC ⬇️
I'd be grateful if you would consider reposting to your networks to spread the word.
tinyurl.com/6kk9fryt
It's about structural and cultural change to improve the higher ed workplace.
See the ToC ⬇️
I'd be grateful if you would consider reposting to your networks to spread the word.
tinyurl.com/6kk9fryt
February 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The Caring University is now available for pre-order!
It's about structural and cultural change to improve the higher ed workplace.
See the ToC ⬇️
I'd be grateful if you would consider reposting to your networks to spread the word.
tinyurl.com/6kk9fryt
It's about structural and cultural change to improve the higher ed workplace.
See the ToC ⬇️
I'd be grateful if you would consider reposting to your networks to spread the word.
tinyurl.com/6kk9fryt
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We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
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February 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
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The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.
Personal Discretion Over the Treasury's Payments System Means the End of Democracy
If the Court and federal workers fail to stop Elon Musk, we are heading for authoritarianism.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.
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The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991.
Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.
As of this morning, it’s gone.
Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.
As of this morning, it’s gone.
January 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991.
Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.
As of this morning, it’s gone.
Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.
As of this morning, it’s gone.
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🚨 Our paper on same-race matching in college is now online at Economics of Education Review! We talk a lot about the benefits of same-race matching in K-12 and higher ed but haven't stopped to ask: Who even has access to same-race matching/how often (and where) does it occur?
January 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
🚨 Our paper on same-race matching in college is now online at Economics of Education Review! We talk a lot about the benefits of same-race matching in K-12 and higher ed but haven't stopped to ask: Who even has access to same-race matching/how often (and where) does it occur?
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Whoops...there was an important coding error in the National Student Clearinghouse's initial look at fall 2024 enrollment.
www.studentclearinghouse.org/news/nationa...
www.studentclearinghouse.org/news/nationa...
January 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Whoops...there was an important coding error in the National Student Clearinghouse's initial look at fall 2024 enrollment.
www.studentclearinghouse.org/news/nationa...
www.studentclearinghouse.org/news/nationa...
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National Student Clearinghouse just emailed a big correction to ed reporters: freshman enrollment did not fall by 5% in Fall 2024, it INCREASED. We all blamed the FAFSA roll out fiasco with tamping down college going. But that was wrong. Revised figs to come out Jan 23
January 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
National Student Clearinghouse just emailed a big correction to ed reporters: freshman enrollment did not fall by 5% in Fall 2024, it INCREASED. We all blamed the FAFSA roll out fiasco with tamping down college going. But that was wrong. Revised figs to come out Jan 23
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Next week at #ASSA2025 I'll present new work showing that much of the last decade+ of decline in community college enrollment can be explained by strengthening labor markets.
Joe Winkelmann and I started this work during our time at the CEA.
I'll discuss other important results live, so stop by!
Joe Winkelmann and I started this work during our time at the CEA.
I'll discuss other important results live, so stop by!
December 30, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Next week at #ASSA2025 I'll present new work showing that much of the last decade+ of decline in community college enrollment can be explained by strengthening labor markets.
Joe Winkelmann and I started this work during our time at the CEA.
I'll discuss other important results live, so stop by!
Joe Winkelmann and I started this work during our time at the CEA.
I'll discuss other important results live, so stop by!
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People voted for a fictional Trump they made up in their heads and the question is whether the massive propaganda apparatus behind him can maintain that fiction while he does all the things many of his voters told themselves he wouldn’t do bsky.app/profile/carl...
WAPO POLL: “.. Would you support or oppose the Trump administration doing each of the following?”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
December 19, 2024 at 1:40 PM
People voted for a fictional Trump they made up in their heads and the question is whether the massive propaganda apparatus behind him can maintain that fiction while he does all the things many of his voters told themselves he wouldn’t do bsky.app/profile/carl...
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The higher education lobby is trying to get requirements for colleges to report program-level outcomes pushed back beyond the January 15 deadline into the new administration. The first Trump administration published the program-level College Scorecard, so they may publish these data too.
Colleges ask for a third gainful employment extension
The leading lobbying group for colleges says the upcoming change in administration necessitates relief from the Jan. 15 due date. So far, the department isn’t budging.
www.insidehighered.com
December 18, 2024 at 10:41 AM
The higher education lobby is trying to get requirements for colleges to report program-level outcomes pushed back beyond the January 15 deadline into the new administration. The first Trump administration published the program-level College Scorecard, so they may publish these data too.
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I'm seeking an assistant/associate professor of practice to lead our growing online master's program in higher education. This can be a fully remote position, and application review will begin February 15. Please share! apply.interfolio.com/160931
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December 18, 2024 at 12:55 AM
I'm seeking an assistant/associate professor of practice to lead our growing online master's program in higher education. This can be a fully remote position, and application review will begin February 15. Please share! apply.interfolio.com/160931
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I think we should state unequivocally that the risk comes from the new Admin wantonly violating the law, because using FAFSA data or FTI for anything other than “application, administration, or award” of aid is illegal and even subject to jail time.
November 27, 2024 at 10:23 PM
I think we should state unequivocally that the risk comes from the new Admin wantonly violating the law, because using FAFSA data or FTI for anything other than “application, administration, or award” of aid is illegal and even subject to jail time.
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I always appreciate that @erickelderman.bsky.social goes deep on accreditation and its complexities. Was great to chat to him about the challenges ahead, for this vitally important part of the higher Ed system.
We need improvement, not destruction.
#EduSky
www.chronicle.com/article/trum...
We need improvement, not destruction.
#EduSky
www.chronicle.com/article/trum...
Trump’s Vision for College Accreditation Could Shake Up the Sector
The president-elect and his allies have floated a sweeping vision for upending the way colleges are accredited. But firing the accreditors is easier said than done.
www.chronicle.com
November 27, 2024 at 2:07 AM
I always appreciate that @erickelderman.bsky.social goes deep on accreditation and its complexities. Was great to chat to him about the challenges ahead, for this vitally important part of the higher Ed system.
We need improvement, not destruction.
#EduSky
www.chronicle.com/article/trum...
We need improvement, not destruction.
#EduSky
www.chronicle.com/article/trum...
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Since Republicans continue suggesting they will use accreditation as a weapon, I wrote up the Florida lawsuit decision and why it matters. Read on!
#EduSky
#HigherEdSky
www.newamerica.org/education-po...
#EduSky
#HigherEdSky
www.newamerica.org/education-po...
October 11, 2024 at 11:59 AM
Since Republicans continue suggesting they will use accreditation as a weapon, I wrote up the Florida lawsuit decision and why it matters. Read on!
#EduSky
#HigherEdSky
www.newamerica.org/education-po...
#EduSky
#HigherEdSky
www.newamerica.org/education-po...
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🧵 time! 1/many
Florida wanted to end accreditation as we know it, because SACS asked some Florida public colleges if maybe Florida lawmakers could be less politically interfery, and sued the Department of Ed to try and make it happen.
#EduSky
Florida wanted to end accreditation as we know it, because SACS asked some Florida public colleges if maybe Florida lawmakers could be less politically interfery, and sued the Department of Ed to try and make it happen.
#EduSky
Judge rejects Fla. suit challenging higher ed accreditation
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s lawsuit
www.insidehighered.com
October 3, 2024 at 10:58 PM
🧵 time! 1/many
Florida wanted to end accreditation as we know it, because SACS asked some Florida public colleges if maybe Florida lawmakers could be less politically interfery, and sued the Department of Ed to try and make it happen.
#EduSky
Florida wanted to end accreditation as we know it, because SACS asked some Florida public colleges if maybe Florida lawmakers could be less politically interfery, and sued the Department of Ed to try and make it happen.
#EduSky
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Florida continues to be a lesson in what happens when Republicans fully politicize higher ed: they demand more accountability and savings from faculty (U Florida has effectively gutted tenure) while engaging in secrecy and grift for themselves. www.alligator.org/article/2024...
Sasse’s spending spree: Former UF president channeled millions to GOP allies, secretive contracts - The Independent Florida Alligator
In his 17-month stint as UF president, Ben Sasse more than tripled his office’s spending, directing millions in university funds into secretive consulting contracts and high-paying positions for his G...
www.alligator.org
August 12, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Florida continues to be a lesson in what happens when Republicans fully politicize higher ed: they demand more accountability and savings from faculty (U Florida has effectively gutted tenure) while engaging in secrecy and grift for themselves. www.alligator.org/article/2024...
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House Committee Advances GOP Plan to Overhaul Higher Ed
In a lengthy hearing Wednesday, Democrats argued the Republicans’ College Cost Reduction Act wouldn’t actually lower costs. #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3SQemox
In a lengthy hearing Wednesday, Democrats argued the Republicans’ College Cost Reduction Act wouldn’t actually lower costs. #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3SQemox
House committee advances GOP plan to overhaul higher ed
In a lengthy hearing Wednesday, Democrats argued the Republicans’ College Cost Reduction Act wouldn’t actually lower costs.
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February 1, 2024 at 4:05 PM
House Committee Advances GOP Plan to Overhaul Higher Ed
In a lengthy hearing Wednesday, Democrats argued the Republicans’ College Cost Reduction Act wouldn’t actually lower costs. #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3SQemox
In a lengthy hearing Wednesday, Democrats argued the Republicans’ College Cost Reduction Act wouldn’t actually lower costs. #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3SQemox
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So excited to announce that our textbook with Xavier, "Difference-in-Differences for Simple and Complex Natural Experiments", is now under contract with Princeton University Press. Check out the "working textbook" version here! Comments welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 14, 2023 at 12:33 PM
So excited to announce that our textbook with Xavier, "Difference-in-Differences for Simple and Complex Natural Experiments", is now under contract with Princeton University Press. Check out the "working textbook" version here! Comments welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....