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8 Apr 2021
Everything you should have learned in J-school, in 19 tweets.
8 Apr 2021
I'm writing. Which means procrastinating.
So I've been thinking about some Rules for Reporting:
1. Pick up the damn phone. You know less than you think but someone out there knows something. This is scary and won’t get easier over time. (credit: @Colarusso42)
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30 Jan 2025
Today's Daily Briefing: viral policy.
It took three years for Florida’s “stop woke” fever to mutate into a push against DEI at the federal level. Why have the courts been so silent on questions of free expression raised by critics?
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29 Jan 2025
Today's Daily Briefing: How Tuesday's funding-freeze chaos unfolded. Trump orders curricular review at military academies. LSU bars law professor from class. Does campus culture support journalism? Subscribe: buff.ly/40zLbIY
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28 Jan 2025
Today's Daily Briefing: If ICE shows up on campus. Defense Secretary opposed race-conscious admissions. Tufts lecturers strike. Millions for an assistant football coach, and more.
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22 Jan 2025
Today's Daily Briefing: Merit vs. DEI. Harvard adopts International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s antisemitism definition. Email-blast limits. Which postdocs get faculty jobs? Read and subscribe: buff.ly/4hnqQgC
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10 Jan 2025
Today's Daily Briefing: Medical-school diversity plunges. Court kills Biden Title IX rules before Trump can. College made its own “ghost” students. Democratic governor rebukes rising college costs, and more. Subscribe to read: buff.ly/4h9lHsn
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7 Jan 2025
Partnerships may be the worst solution for financially strapped middle-market colleges ... except for all the others. Subscribe to the Daily Briefing for story and more: buff.ly/3DIJr8m
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24 Dec 2024
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13 Dec 2024
Today's briefing: A pro's coach comes to college, but why does this seem so familiar? Subscribe: buff.ly/3DcpQxf
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11 Dec 2024
Today's Daily Briefing: We've reached peak high-school graduate, and coming decreases will reshape colleges. Subscribe for more: buff.ly/41nG5l0
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6 Dec 2024
Today's Daiy Briefing: DEI's blue wall cracks. How to criticize a thesis without ever reading it. A new idea for the amenities race. Subscribe and read: buff.ly/3Bp0mMg
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5 Dec 2024
Thursday's Daily Briefing newsletter: Why student-conduct offices struggle to discipline protesters. Will Michigan walk back on DEI? More colleges paid the endowment tax. Subscribe and see more: buff.ly/3ZBLXWh
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4 Dec 2024
Today's Daily Briefing newsletter: College completion rates are up. Freshman enrollment is down. Financial outlooks are deteriorating. The word of the year about sums it up. Subscribe and see more here: buff.ly/3Zh3F05
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Rick Seltzer retweeted
7 Mar 2024
There should not be a single middle school in America where the kids can have phones with them. This is beyond obvious and the fact that it’s not widespread policy is absolute lunacy.
6 Mar 2024
My kids go to a public middle school in NYC where they lock up their phones for the day. This is what the school observed:
“Overall, the program has been a massive success. We are happy to share that we continue to see the benefits of using Yondr, with increased student engagement in the classroom, less time spent in the bathrooms and hallways, more genuine connections within the community and a decrease in reports of cyberbullying.”
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14 Feb 2024
Today's Daily Briefing: Learning loss's long tail for colleges
Plus: College Board settles student-privacy charges. Misconduct allegations catch up with music professor. University of Georgia med school OK’d, and more.
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9 Feb 2024
Today's Daily Briefing: A double-dip enrollment cliff just became more likely.
Plus: The feds force out two for-profit executives. Texas A&M pulls the plug on its Qatar campus. A city wants to tax college students.
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7 Feb 2024
Today's Daily Briefing: Can small colleges fulfill donors' wishes? Should they?
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11 Aug 2023
It helps to have a rye sense of humor.
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Rick Seltzer retweeted
27 Mar 2023
This deserves more attention: Low-wage US workers have benefitted a lot from the strong job market.
18 million workers rose above $15/hr pay since 2019.
16 million rose above $20/hr.
Raising the minimum wage would help lock in these gains.
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Rick Seltzer retweeted
13 Feb 2023
Wow: "For hairdressers and barbers, who earn $35,000 a year on average according to federal data, noncompetes often forbid them from taking a second job, moonlighting as a freelance stylist or moving directly to a competitor for more pay."
13 Feb 2023
New from me: Researchers estimate that more hair stylists, who earn an average of $35,000 annually, have to sign noncompetes than the general population of workers. The industry shows what politicians and regulators say is the issue with these contracts wsj.com/articles/how-do-nonc…
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Rick Seltzer retweeted
9 Feb 2023
“They go after every listing under $500,000 … it’s like clockwork.”
Metro Atlanta is ground zero for an investor takeover of the American Dream.
Buyers can’t compete with the flood of cash. Renters are exploited for profit.
Read Part 1 of our series:
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