Brendan Cantwell

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In one of the first statewide data points for enrollment this fall, Michigan's public universities saw their first collective enrollment decline since 2022. The smallest institution saw a 14% decline in just one year.

The fish are fried. Time for a beer

How many Brewers’ fans are in St Pete’s

About a third of the MSU president’s $1.5 million salary is directly by donors; a known group of people who make an annual contribution for the next 5 years to pay a portion of the salary. Anyone know how common this direct donor pay arrangement is? I think not common but I could be wrong.

I’m sure this won’t incentivize the absolute worst people in the world to harass their neighbors by calling the fucking gestapo

Why did we stop calling them creeps and weirdos?

The nearest Cheesecake Factory is a 62 mile drive from my house … I’m not sure if that means I live in real America or not real America?

The answer is because they are segregationists

Was asked how far to go back to identify the start of the reactionary attack on higher ed. I'm no historian so probably not qualified, but I gave two answers: 1. All the way back: the Powell memo, Reagan in CA, McCarthy keep going... 2. Scott Walker kicked this off in WI (my preferred answer)

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

Lot of fear of people lying to polls. We don't have much evidence for it & don't need it to explain error. People uncomfortable sharing their choice are more likely to be in the now ~98% of people who don't respond than to take ~20 min survey to lie. Non-response much bigger deal

These far-right undercover video groups seem to fizzle out but are always replaced by a successor doing the same thing. www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

It feels good to defeat fascism

Let’s be like Brazil

My father-in-law and his wife are on a “mystery cruise” that left Portsmouth and he was convinced that given the time of year it must be heading south. I just checked maritime tracker and the first port of call is Leith Scotland and I am very amused.

Let’s be like the Serbs

We resent universities as proof that a touch‘o’socialism is good actually so we blame them for all of capitalism’s externalities.

Okay but it’s the Cheesecake Factory remark that was condescending to his voters

I am consistently vexed by the fact that elite consensus is more interested in holding US colleges and universities accountable for things that they have a little control over - white color wages, rent in Santa Barbara - than things they can influence - campus safety, instructional approach.

I see that several of us who know something about how the political economy of higer ed works were agitated by the paper of record this morning

Rising costs is a real problem and the writer here focuses on a factor that the university has limit control over, which is housing. But the practice of quoting sticker prices misses that most get discounts or tuition waivers for lower income. UC says most in-state students pay zero tuition.

I remember my orientation in 2011. They asked us to (a) get grants and (b) avoid having sex with students [in that order of priority]

Maybe we can start a GoFundMe to pay John Smoltz to go away?

Is this the year I buy the Costco jamón?

John Roberts hates the rule of law

If the "Constitution" allows this then it is a bad Constitution and it should be changed

like prisoners tapping on the wall between them

How come there’s a New Hope church but not and Old Pessimism one?

Someone needs to print this out and tape it inside Chet’s locker

I don’t support replacing human labor with AI, but I might make an exception when it comes to John Smoltz

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