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Running, cake, cats, sunshine, higher ed, old stuff, policy, and intersectional feminism. UConn Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. Views expressed are my own.
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Yikes! My eldest child had cavities when very young and we discovered we had well water with zero fluoride. Supplements were super important for us, and I’m sure are a reason that my second kid stayed cavity free.
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The movie is like the reality. It’s amazing - the best of Europe. If only the UK had set the Brexit referendum for the same week as Eurovision. Maybe the result would have been different.
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Some have data on time use. Also many problems with use, but it is another interesting point to compare with attendance.
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Do you ever analyze this in the context of other data points (e.g., LMS engagement). Does correlation with attendance break down if students have high engagement in other areas? Or is class attendance also highly correlated with all other engagement? What about prior achievement?
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Lower level admin is a particular space for knowing when you have to keep quiet about the things that are central to your job. The absences are growing ever more notable.
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I also started out confused by why so few of my colleagues at that initial institution had been to public universities. That’s so funny to think about how naive I was back then.
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She did! But she was from LA, did her PhD at Berkeley, and ended up at the University of Manchester. She had distance from east coast elite instructions. The Little Ivies (one of which I landed at) are also defined by their athletic league.
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I knew this because my US PhD advisor explained the American institutional hierarchy to me back in the UK before applying to US jobs.
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Another terrible thing in a long list of terrible things. But I hope things get figured out for you at a local level.
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I remember the fair trade dream when countries were given the chance of trading their way out of poverty.
Botswana for instance through diamonds - now subject to a 37% tariff.
The Ivory Coast through cocoa - now contending with a tariff of 21%.
How will they cope?
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The answer seems to be to invest more, knowing the medium- and long-term outcomes. The UK could seize the moment and leap ahead in research and HE given the multiple crises impacting the US. Not seeing any signs this is likely. It’s a race to the bottom.
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Been doing some work on an international dual degree and my understanding is that there are universities that might produce Maoist cadres, but they’re not in the US.
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But how had he been able to travel back and forth multiple times if there was an issue with his green card status? And if he renewed it, why wouldn’t that have flagged an issue?
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Notably not differentiating institutional and programmatic accreditors. It seems that most institutional accreditors were broader in expectations re: DEI and expected fit with institutional mission & goals. Programmatic accreditors likely focus on the need to diversify their respective fields.
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Requires more planning ahead. I was doing really well, but then USPS messed up a delivery of a specialist ingredient I had sourced from Etsy for a birthday cake, and I needed a replacement set of magnet stickers. (I also live in a tiny town and my work commute is through tiny places.)
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I'm in a Dem state; state level & congressional delegation have well-organized mobilization, esp. from the AG. The problem is the tearing up of norms and the unknowns in what will be defensible in court. There is a lot of wait & see and working on things like repro and DACA student support.
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Different type of accreditor (not institutional). Hard to tell exactly how this will trickle down, but I assume it will in some way.
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Not Pell: bsky.app/profile/bake...
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Could this really get kicked to states? Cannot see the tiny state higher ed agency in my neck of the woods coping. I have also been wondering if NECHE would be insulated by the fact it operates in states that will be pro-accreditation.