#highered

Linda McMahon, the secretary of the Dept. of Education, just said that "denying the Holocaust" is a legitimate "diverse viewpoint" that must be included in hiring university faculty!

https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5410977-harvard-faculty-hiring-holocaust-denial/

#education #highered #Holocaust #DoE #McMahon #politics #news

> Record Number of U.S. Students Apply to U.K. Institutions https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/07/21/more-us-students-apply-uk-colleges-post-trump

Gee, can't imagine why. I'll be honest. If I had to do it again, I would have applied overseas too.

#academia #HigherEd #BoycottUSA

Gee, can't imagine why. Survey based, so caveats may apply.

> A quarter of Gen Z workers say college wasn't worth it https://qz.com/a-quarter-of-gen-z-workers-say-college-wasnt-worth-it

#BadEconomy #academia #HigherEd #work #jobs #GenZ

What is your plan if you don’t have time to “deliver all of the content?” #teaching #highschool #highered

@bweller All the public and private institutions I've been involved in here in the Midwest have extremely strict hiring protocols. They are by no means perfect but they are designed to try to focus on actual qualifications.

My current institution even removed *preferred* qualifications from job listings because it discouraged highly qualified people from applying. We want to consider everyone who is well qualified.

A lot of #HigherEd hiring is done with committees, rather than single managers.

@bweller I agree with everything you say with one tweak.

There isn't an *inherent* problem with private educational institutions, especially in #HigherEd. Indeed, a fair amount of our scientific research is conducted at private universities as much as it is at public land grants.

What I would support is that any private institution receiving tax dollars is required to conform to the same #education standards as its public peers if they want to receive that public support.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled scroll to announce: The A&P Professor #podcast just won a 2025 APEX Award. No big trophies, but still shiny.
https://apexawards.com/winners-2025
#anatomy #physiology #HigherEd

@garyackerman When I was a student, my life was occasionally a storm of chaos. Usually due to forces beyond by control. Class and family of origin issues can turn on hard mode even for white males. Everyone has invisible struggles.

I got lots of second chances. Anybody who says they didn't is in the grip of an inhuman ideology.

Ask, and ye shall receive.

It costs very little to be kind.

#teaching #highered

What’s the benefit of college students taking courses outside their majors?

For some, it’s teaching broad skills and preparing for citizenship. Others see it as costly time better spent on career-advancing skills.

As college costs rise, a deep divide grows between those who value a liberal arts education and those who prefer career-focused paths.

https://theconversation.com/college-general-education-requirements-help-prepare-students-for-citizenship-but-critics-say-its-learning-time-taken-away-from-useful-studies-257083
#highered #college

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/07/letter-from-11-deans-to-board-of-visitors-goes-unanswered-for-almost-two-weeks #UVa #HigherEd #academia #virginia

> AI is helping students be more independent, but the isolation could be career poison https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2025/07/16/ai-is-helping-students-be-more-independent-but-the-isolation-could-be-career-poison

Translation: Students can get all they need from the #AISlop machine, except the "soft skills" like actually talking to people, networking, and communicating with humans. But hey, it's the wave of the future.

#tech #jobs #labor #work #academia #HigherEd

The July 16, 2025 Issue of ARL (Association of Research Libraries) Day in Review is Now Available Online https://www.arl.org/day-in-review/day-in-review-july-14-17/#section-july16 ||| Subscribe to E-Mail Version (Free; Check "Day in Review") https://signup.e2ma.net/signup/28611/11423/ #libraries #highereducation #highered

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/07/a-statement-by-40-jewish-faculty-and-staff-on-antisemitism-and-dei-at-uva #UVa #HigherEd #academia #antisemitism #DEI #USPolitics #Virginia

LA Times wrote about this yesterday:
Sanjay Madhav, an associate professor .. said that these and other costly ventures were part of a “series of poor decisions” made by university leadership in recent years.

“The administration has made a lot of irresponsible financial decisions,” said Madhav, who is involved in a #union organizing effort for non-tenure track professors. “The regular employees, they ultimately pay the price for the poor decisions.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-15/usc-budget-deficit-layoffs

#HigherEd #Academia

> Should You Use AI to Apply for Jobs? https://www.chronicle.com/article/should-you-use-ai-to-apply-for-jobs

I'd say no, but hey, fuck it. You wouldn't want to be seen as a luddite or behind the times.

#AISlop #BadEconomy #jobs #academia #HigherEd #tech

Thank you to Mary Grush of Campus Technology magazine for her interest in @apereo and the resurgence of #OpenSource in #HigherEd.

While institutions of #HigherEducation are now more dependent on #OSS than ever, their engagement with and support of both the projects and communities may be at an all-time low.

Several factors should prompt greater participation from campus leadership and IT departments: #SBOM, #CRA, the rise of academic #OSPO, grant/funding requirements (#OpenScience), etc.

> Pluralistic: When Google's slop meets webslop, search stops (15 Jul 2025) https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inhuman-gigapede/

Another look why #Google search (and company overall) sucks. Author gave it up for paid service Kagi (must be nice if you got the bucks). I've been trying out Duck Duck Go , works OK most times. What makes me think is how reliant many in #academia and #HigherEd are on Google for various things, including search, and this includes #librarians who should know better.

#BadEconomy #tech #AISlop

Question for those making decisions as far as admitting Masters and PhD students:

Does your program use AI in one or more of the steps of the application process? #Ethics #HigherEd

@academicchatter

Campus Technology’s Mary Grush sat down with Apereo’s Patrick Masson and Josh Baron to explore a question that’s more important than ever:
How do we sustain the open source infrastructure higher education relies on every day—often without realizing it?

Read the full interview:
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2025/07/14/a-return-to-openness-apereo-examines-sustainability-in-open-source.aspx

#HigherEd #OpenSource #DigitalSustainability #Apereo #CampusTechnology

> Trump poised to make LGBTQ nonprofit workers ineligible for student loan forgiveness https://www.advocate.com/news/pslf-lgbtq-nonprofits-trump-transgender

Again, when you think the #RWNJ #assholes can't go lower, they do.

#GOP #PartyOfStupid #PendejoInChief #TacoTrump #academia #HigherEd #BadEconomy #LGBTQ #bigotry