Nick Fleisher
@nickfleisher
Linguist at UW-Milwaukee. Syntax & semantics, higher ed, Wisconsin politics &c.
This is one of many reasons why you shouldn't hire unqualified people to be university presidents (Hawkins should obviously be removed immediately)
The public has lost trust in higher ed because we're doing shared governance wrong? Be so fr
The major recommendations themselves are a combination of warmed-over talking points, marketing happy talk, and actual things that most non-top-tier institutions are already doing
The fact that the "most selective and well-resourced institutions are the least popular with the public" is not a "strange paradox"! This tracks a major disconnect in the report, whose diagnosis and recommendations target the top tier while crisis threatens the entire sector
Impossible to avoid seeing this as fitting hand in glove with the Trump Administration's effort to write "intellectual diversity" requirements into federal standards for higher ed accreditation
TIL they shot Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow in the middle of the October 1993 coup, yielding maybe the wildest ever juxtaposition of wretched film with poignant passing shot web.archive.org/web/20121104...
Sorry, which Democratic administration mistreated the Trump family in 2019?
The absolute disrespect of these leagues for the Philadelphia sports fan
It's actually very weird that the president, rather than the head of the FBI or an actual investigator, is giving these updates to the press
Journal-Sentinel manages to misquote its own parent paper while also getting the facts wrong (the actual margin of victory was 3%)
Bret Stephens loves the Yale report, and has this to say about "what universities need." I have good news, Bret!