Currently: Higher education academic & adminstrator. Alumni: USMC (Infantry) & University of Florida (PhD)
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I thought WWIII = The Eugenics Wars, but they've never spelled it out under the hand waving of "All documents lost" during the conflict. One key aspect of ST's tech utopia is that Earth doesn't get there without the total destruction of existing governments & and a compete do over.
a bunch of you really believe that trump is the unstoppable god king who can do whatever he declares and it is dumb as hell
That's always a tough choice.
Record scratch....you turned down a position at Bama?
Like California, it's amazing how MAGA most of Oregon is outside of PDX (and they *hate* Portland).
I'm from *California* and was taught that the South had better generals and troops but lost the war due to the North's economic advantage (also why so many things were named after Confederate officers, including many federal Army posts). The political power behind retconning the Civil War is immense
Florida is never going to be reimbursed by DHS for this expense, no matter what anyone thinks.
This will devastate American PhD programs.
The party of "private companies can do things better than the federal government" sure has changed in the last...eight months.
This is from The Gospel of Homegoods, Chapter 5, Verse 11.
Ben landed the presidency of the state's flagship in an overwhelmingly red state and still fumbled the bag.
Are we fully at the point where Congress has outsourced its law making responsibility to the executive branch, or is this all (bad) vibes?
Every few years a major media outlet runs a story about how most students aren't attending elite institutions, only to immediately pivot back to covering the Ivy League. #highered
Hot take: Students not making anything don't respect faculty either.
This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
I'm so damn tired.
Fearmongering about how AI will take people’s jobs just makes people hate the tech industry and will cause a backlash when people figure out LLMs aren’t that smart.
Spent many a shared custody Saturday afternoon with my dad at either an a) bowling alley, b) pool hall or c) bowling alley/pool hall combo. Full bar and kitchen for the win.
Saw a bad parenting opinion by someone who doesn’t have kids I might not even care if a parent has an opinion but if you’re not out here in the drop off line trenches I definitely don’t give a fuck
#highered #ai
Whole lot of Democrats think they're in The West Wing.
My piece on the Trump administration's attack on higher ed for @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/cons...
The Party of States' Rights strikes again!
"Don't feel bad if you're not reading every great book. No one ever has, and no one ever will."
If you spend more than 30 minutes there you have to buy something with maple syrup in it. It's a state law.
Nobody is doing this.
It's interesting how school-specific this is. My oldest was in Alpha Phi at Rensselaer, where there were a bunch of STEM majors who studied all weekend. The chapters in Miami and Arizona, however, are *completely* different.
"I’m just trying to rapidly live in reverse to hold on to any shred of the Olden Times that’s left. This is called denial and nostalgia—wish me luck." - Paul Thomas Anderson
The Mountain Goats Cinematic Universe needs to be explored.
Right? Anytime you complain about heat an ex-NYer yells about how it's better than snow. Like there aren't 40 other states without brutal winters. It's snowmaggedon or Florida to them. No inbetween.
It's 90° for 8 month out of the year here in Florida and everyone is a NY/New England expat. I don't get it either.
I think we called those Blue Dog Democrats in the 90s.
Perry also says he's a Republican because he "believes in free markets" like Dems don't. Also, it seems like the answer today would be a lot different...
Modern American law enforcement training emphasizes Spirit of the Law vs Letter of the Law with the idea of police discretion to *lessen* the heavy hand of the state when interacting with the public (ie let them off with a warning). This has been inverted with LE making arrests on vibes.
Meme culture is funny from my 12 year old. It's embarrassing from the White House. Republicans have always been assholes but they used to be grown up assholes. Now the country is being run by the teenagers who talk shit on Call of Duty.
We are in desperate need of a new Rage Against the Machine album.
My issue is that SCOTUS doesn't care about the law, either, which seems to me a much greater issue.
Astonishing. For anyone wondering why Texas always has so many job openings in higher ed, it's actions like this. How long before other red states follow suit? www.texastribune.org/2025/08/07/t...
Ha. We still don't know where the money from the Columbia "settlement" went.
"And what, specifically, do you find interesting about that period of history?"
A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵
People spending years to earn grad degrees, study advanced data analysis and predictive modeling, and the most powerful nation in the world is being run on vibes.
1933 you say...?
Just going to drop the common sense position that private prisons should be illegal: if you convict someone you're directly responsible for their care. You can't outsource that responsibility.
We have to get comfortable telling people they’ve been acting like suckers and the things they believe are cultivated for suckers. Radical honesty.
Meanwhile they're angering local law enforcement by attempting to poach their officers to join ICE (even staunch allies are angry about this): www.fox13news.com/news/grady-j...
All joking aside, and noting that the article states that 80k have applied, there's still a reasonably strict vetting and training process before new agents can hit the streets. Even if 10% make it through the pipeline that's woefully short of what DHS is asking for.
WTF kind of human rights org would....ah, I see.
Nature is undefeated. metro.co.uk/2025/08/06/m...
Every mainstream media story about San Francisco was designed to make people hate San Francisco.
This Sound of Freedom remake sounds...different.
What it is going to take is one university after another simply saying, we will not deal. This is not a legitimate way for the executive branch to interact with universities and we will not do it. Full stop.
This feels like the essence of my public management class. The likelihood that the people of government haven't thought of your brilliant idea is very very small. Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard work.
This working paper looks really cool. "The Education-Innovation Gap" 🧵🧵🧵
Wait until they see how rookie white QBs are treated.
Evergreen to so many things.
#highered
WWE is like NASCAR: A luxury good marketed as working class entertainment.
Gotta pay for the lawsuits somehow.
But you're getting a Netflix documentary...
RTW is being implemented across the FL state university system. I hate how conservatives see any innovation after 1975 as Woke or Liberal so we're going to make Teams calls to people in the next room instead of from home. #highered www.alligator.org/article/2025...
Come for the fried food and sports takes, stay for the unexpected French philosophy.
I love this show but you're right. If this was a traditional 24 episode season I wouldn't mind, but since all series are effectively limited series now (with long gaps between seasons) every episode is essential.
The way things are going your book might be a felony by the time it's released...
We have an entire generation of manboys who watched BSG and thought Cylons were the good guys.
When can we get some TBQ pogs?
The main thing I learned is that in order to write a book, you have to write a book and there's nothing that's going to prepare you for writing a book until you write a book so you should write a book
It's a nice Constitution...if you can keep it.
Fellow red staters, unite!
But...stipends for extra work, teaching overloads, summers, releases for research/writing, add'l money for Chair, a career ladder that goes to Provost (non-tenured faculty are excluded from almost all senior exec jobs, even those that have nothing to do with academics directly).
Ha. Sorry. Merit raises? My experience has been that the only way faculty get any kind of pay increase is if its specifically included in collective bargaining (those state COLs happen every so often, it was 6 years for us not that long ago. Merit increases seem to be a myth in may orgs).
I mean, at least faculty get annual COL increases built into their contract. Staff and Administration get...whatever the state feels like letting us have if/when they get around to it someday. Also senior admin/exec positions come exclusively from tenured faculty so...yeah...you're fine.
Keep in mind that in red states these conditions are literally written into state law. These are non-union, right to work states where the punishment is termination, not a harshly worded letter. It's easier to be brave in CA and NYC where your job isn't in danger.
The More You Know.
A lawsuit would cost 100s of millions with little confidence of victory given SCOTUS. I hate it, but I understand the pressure to settle and move on. But if rich colleges cave there's little hope for the rest of us.
We already have Theranos at home.
Bradbury was an oracle, not a fiction writer. #Fahrenheit451
We all live in a red state now. #highered
#highered
They are if they want to survive carline...
All of those words just to ask for a hug from his dad.
@jodemocracy.bsky.social's most recent edition has two essential reads for Americans in this moment of authoritarian takeover of our government. They are about what it takes to return to democratic government after authoritarian rule. Both seem to be free... muse.jhu.edu/issue/55125
Went to the beach with my daughter for her girl's soccer preseason bash. 100 degrees. Real Feel(tm) 111°. Water temp was 90°. I firmly believe Florida was only settled bc some Spaniard lost a bet.
No way this dude has ever had to solve "the problem of success and authenticity" in his life.
#highered #studentloans
Literally nobody wants this.
Its more after school activities that are increasingly required for entrance into college; kids are working on HS classes in middle school, college classes in HS, plus sports (practice until 9pm) & music/arts/etc. It's an arms race. Most kids get driven by parents (which is another issue)
A few things: they share the same busses and drivers as elementary and middle schools, so they have to stagger schedules. HS kids have more after school activities/sports so they need those to start earlier so kids arent up until late at night. Etc.
"Does a university promote academic freedom by representing itself in the face of tyranny, or does it condone that tyranny by participating in an obvious charade?" heritage.umich.edu/stories/in-t...
I pray the University of California system doesn’t go the Columbia way when it is put to the challenge. The pressures to comply are immense. But there are real matters of academic and constitutional principle at stake. A shameful day for higher education.
Imagine the soul destroying experience of being on an institutional research team at Columbia where 90% of your job is just providing Excel sheets of student data for the feds to determine if you're enrolling the people they approve of.
I guess I just want to say that Trump has captured every single institution. You can track variation in, say, court decisions or changing positions on tariffs but even conceding those things accepts that his whims run institutions’ priorities. Not a single one of them really stood.
Policy enforcement by keyword search and AI scraping.
How many former GOP politicians currently serving as red state university presidents have 15 years of administrative experience?
We used to be a proper society. #80s #GenX #music
Last week: Everyone joking about Bari being on 60 Minutes. This week: Uh...
"AI tools — including generative AI — will now be integrated into Canvas, a learning-management platform used by a large share of the nation’s colleges." #highered #ai www.chronicle.com/article/inst...
