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W. Carson Byrd

@wcbyrdphd.bsky.social

Sociologist of higher ed inequalities & racism @ Michigan Probably staring at data instead of writing, but at least there’s a stack of books & articles beside me. More info: https://wcarsonbyrd.com

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Annaliese Paulson@annaliesep.bsky.social · 9h ago

New Working Paper with Micah Baum and Joaquin Endara: Students tend to become more liberal during college. We study whether individual faculty make their students more liberal. We find no evidence that faculty affect student partisanship. Working Paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1538 1/

Do Faculty Affect Student Partisanship?

We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the h...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13h ago

Congratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

Education Dept. to Wipe Out Student Loans of 170,000 More Defrauded Borrowers (Gift Article)

The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history.

nytimes.com

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d ago

"As for the letter’s insistence that admissions be 'based on merit'? 'They mean they think too many Black people have gotten into places they never should have gotten into,' she said." I have gotta learn to be more straightforward www.chronicle.com/article/for-...

For Higher Ed, Trump’s Compact 2.0 Is Either an Olive Branch or a Gloved Fist

The White House has promised there will be no direct penalties — or rewards — for making the statements asked for, but some are skeptical.

chronicle.com

Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 2d ago

oh good, a new and even more dangerous phase of universities actively looking to collaborate with the behemoth looking to destroy them.

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d ago

So no I'm not surprised by: "the administration’s latest move was developed in partnership with university leaders, primarily the Association of American Universities, which represents dozens of top research institutions including all eight Ivy League colleges." 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

sorelle@friedler.net · last wk.

My department is hiring tenure-track in computer science! Deadline: Oct 1, 2026. We care about and support both research and teaching. We're located in the suburbs of Philadelphia. It's a great place to work and live! I'm happy to answer any questions. www.haverford.edu/provost/news...

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Haverford College invites applications for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science to begin Fall 2027.

haverford.edu

Alexandra W. Logue@lexalogue.bsky.social · 2w ago

This exp. submitted fictitious applications to actual job openings in early childhood ed & found employers didn't differentially favor applicants w. assoc degrees, traditional bachelor's degrees, or community college bachelor's degrees: buff.ly/k8oLfr2 #highered @academicsky @riacton.bsky.social

The Labor Market Value of Community College Bachelor’s Degrees: Initial Evidence from a Resume Audit Study in Early Childhood Education

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers,…

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Adam Harris@adamhsays.com · 2w ago

"measuring universities this way could penalize Jackson State University, Alcorn State University and Mississippi Valley State University because the metrics take no account of the decades those schools went underfunded by the state." msindy.org/p/hbcus-hurt...

Mississippi HBCUs could be hurt by new performance-based college funding formula

The board that governs Mississippi’s eight public universities voted June 18 to move toward a funding formula that would tie state dollars to graduation rates, student retention and how much graduates...

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W. Carson Byrd@wcbyrdphd.bsky.social · 2w ago

Some good news even though the damage has been done & many of us lost funding due to these illegal actions. ‘A federal judge ruled Friday that federal officials can’t cancel existing grants simply because they don’t align with new government priorities’

Trump officials can’t revoke grants due to new agency goals, judge rules

The ruling scores a win for a group of 21 attorneys general and three governors who sued over the Trump administration’s approach to grant terminations.

highereddive.com

Ryan Enos@ryanenos.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is crucial and often unmentioned. Almost every single diagnosis of declining faith in universities fails to mention that it is runs in parallel to declining faith in almost all American institutions. Any failure to recognize this means it is really flawed or not a serious effort.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 3w ago

👇🎯 The tell about this is that none of these people claiming academia had a trust problem benchmark universities to other societal institutions or spend any time banging on about the problems with those institutions: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats@wolven.blacksky.app · 3w ago

Okay but in addition to just being cruel this upends the entire graduate school educational ecosystem. i know I said these people have literally no understanding of how knowledge is produced & think they can just Have Best Stuff while simultaneously degrading & dismantling academic research, but jfc

For F-1 students changing educational objectives or transferring to an SEVP- certified school, requiring that the student complete his or her first academic year of a program of study at the school that initially issued his or her Form I- 20 or successor form, unless an exception is authorized by SEVP; Prohibiting F-1 students at the graduate education level or above from changing educational objectives *at any point during a program of study*; Prohibiting F-1 students at the graduate education level or above from transferring at any point during their program of study, unless an exception is authorized by SEVP for extenuating circumstances;
David J. Bier@davidjbier.bsky.social · 3w ago

The most anti-legal immigrant administration ever just made it illegal for international students to transfer schools or change majors or shift any "educational objective" in their 1st year and for graduate students **at any point** ever, at all. There is no legal basis for this

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 3w ago

roberts et al have a mental model of racism as being defined entirely by the most atavistic mania of the jim crow south. if it isn’t that, if it wears suits and ties and speaks the language of national security and executive authority, then it not only doesn’t count, *it’s not racism*

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 3w ago

Wrote about the Roberts Court’s highly selective aversion to identifying racism, echoing the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision, which the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. Call it Neo-Korematsu doctrine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

In Trump v. Hawaii, Roberts wrote that “the forcible relocation of U. S. citizens to concentration camps, solely and explicitly on the basis of race, is objectively unlawful and outside the scope of Presidential authority.” But the author of the Korematsu opinion, having exchanged his white robe for a dark one, would have agreed. After all, Hugo Black wrote that “pressing public necessity”—not “racial antagonism”—motivated the Japanese-internment policy. Black upheld Fred Korematsu’s conviction because he argued that the presence of a national-security motive meant the racism against Japanese Americans didn’t count. And that is exactly the logic the Roberts Court has followed in so many cases. This reasoning—Black’s reasoning—has been reiterated again and again by Roberts and his right-wing colleagues to sanction discrimination against the vulnerable populations targeted by the Republican Party. The Korematsu decision may be overturned by the “court of history.” But its legacy lives on in the Roberts Court.
Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3w ago

When the 11th circuit ruling dropped, I emailed @timcain.bsky.social to get his History Thoughts(tm) on what this all means. We talk about what academic freedom is, the ruling itself, the Red Scares, AAUP guidance on outside-the-classroom speech, and more! www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

How the Stop WOKE Act Ruling Strengthened Academic Freedom

A conversation with Tim Cain, an academic freedom expert and professor of higher education at the University of Georgia.

insidehighered.com

Sean Corcoran@seanpcorcoran.org · 3w ago

Today is the last day to submit comments on OMB's proposed changes to federal grant rules that would give vast powers to political appointees to reject or cancel midstream large research projects. This would waste millions in time and effort and promote corruption. naeducation.org/naed-and-19-...

NAEd and 19 Other Associations File Comment Urging OMB to Withdraw Proposed Rule on Federal Financial Assistance - National Academy of Education

Coalition representing more than 85,000 researchers, faculty, practitioners, and students files formal comment opposing sweeping restrictions on federally funded education research Washington, DC — Ju...

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Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her)@lindstorian.bsky.social · 3w ago

Also: this isn’t just about science. This will devastate the entire federal grant funding process, which means all academic research grants, arts grants, community project grants, agriculture grants, conservation grants, etc. Please leave a comment opposing this change.

Karen James@kejames.bsky.social · 3w ago

TOMORROW (Monday) is the LAST DAY to leave a public comment about the proposed OMB proposal that will be an absolute disaster for science if adopted. Follow the link below for instructions on leaving a good comment.

Natasha Pilkauskas@natashap.bsky.social · 4w ago

We are hiring a postdoctoral fellow to help with work on a project to study the Michigan school meals program (universal meals). Come work with me and Kathy Michelmore! @kmichelmore.bsky.social edpolicy.umich.edu/what-we-do/j...

Join our team

The University of Michigan seeks candidates to become active members of the Education Policy Initiative. Our research group brings together a interdisciplinary set of scholars focused on the generatio...

edpolicy.umich.edu

Robert Kelchen@robertkelchen.com · 4w ago

I am expecting a wave of red-state public universities limiting the ability to employees to participate in professional associations that are deemed too "woke." This case out of Texas is just the beginning. Also, with budgets tightening, conference support is going to shrivel anyway.

North Texas Denies Faculty Conference Funding

The institution joins other universities that have worked to limit conference funds for professors due to anti-DEI pressures.

insidehighered.com