Thomas, you are one of the leading lights here. The way you navigate between past and present is both inspiring and enlightening. I’m
sorry that #highered couldn’t offer you the stability and security you deserve. I’ll be looking out for your next moves, and eager to learn more about your book project.
We're expanding our collection of GenAI syllabus policies across higher ed!
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UMass Amherst Art Department is looking for someone to teach ART+Code in Fall 25. They use #p5js .
in-person classroom instruction Mondays and Wednesdays 9:05-11:50AM
Reach out to me for a referral or submit your info here:
Banning Chinese students - whose tuition helps subsidize lower rates for domestic students and keep universities solvent - may not be the powerful trade war tool that Rubio and Trump think.
China has already been discouraging students from attending US schools, and this arrangemen benefits the US more than China given that US dominance in top universities has been declining.
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/31/rubio-trump-china-students-tariffs-rare-minerals
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile.php?story=20250508191018550
#Nebraska #HigherEd #CommunityServices
' The hundreds of resources are organized into 20 broad categories to make finding things easier. With a few clicks, visitors can find public classes, workshops, community services, informational resources, professional development opportunities, research opportunities and even curricula ideas for school-age children.'
https://news.unl.edu/article/website-showcases-thousands-of-ways-unl-serves-nebraska
We're less than 2 months away from our 3-day virtual Conference to Restore Humanity! 2025. So what landmarks and side quests will you map on your Quest for Connection? 
July 21-23 | virtual | $50
https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/conference #K12 #highered #PBL #education #SEL
Note to faculty: If you talk twice as fast just to get to your joke, you are missing the point of adding a little humor to your classroom. #teaching #highered #highschool oh, yeah, and if you are the only one speaking... your students are probably not listening.
here's one of my recent talks on #GenAI for #Assessment in #HigherEd
https://aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/ctrlaltassess-rebooting-learning
How Canada is trying to tap America’s brain drain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpTS0ABw534 #USpol #Fascism #Science #HigherEd
Trump admin moves to cut vital child care for low-income student parents, threatening college dreams. 
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2025/05/28/trump-aid-student-parents-college-child-care/
"University of California President Michael V. Drake, M.D., announced today (Wednesday, May 28) the selection of Dr. S. Jack Hu, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Georgia, as UC Riverside’s next chancellor. The UC Board of Regents approved the appointment during a special meeting held at the UC Student & Policy Center in Sacramento."
new publication for EDUCAUSE Review with my friends & colleagues, Esther Brandon, Allison Papini, & Dana Gavin on #GenAI #PolicyDevelopment & #HigherEd
The House just passed a plan to end Grad PLUS loans starting in the 2026–27 school year. Graduate students could rely more on private loans as a result, with fewer protections and much higher costs. This may limit access to professions that already face shortages, such as medicine and teaching.
#HigherEd
https://thecollegeinvestor.com/58537/grad-plus-loans-could-be-ending-in-2026/
How the federal government came to fund research at #universities : Planet Money : NPR
“This episode is part of our series Pax Americana, about how the #Trump administration and others are challenging a set of post-World War II policies that placed the U.S. at the center of the economic universe.” #HigherEd #basicResearch #research
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/28/1253247256/-higher-education-federal-funding-universities-science-research
> University of Kentucky students release first-ever bourbon brand https://fox56news.com/news/local/lexington/university-of-kentucky-students-release-first-ever-bourbon-brand/
But is it any good? At about $55 a bottle for a relatively premium/boutique brand, that is not bad. I may keep an eye out for it, see what reviewers say.
…And there it is. Academia.edu has put its basic analytics feature behind a subscription paywall.
Good luck to those folks.
Interestingly, Qatar doesn’t just give luxury jets to US presidents. The country also significantly invests in American universities.
It’s one thing for the US Congress to investigate Chinese influence on American universities and technology ‘transfers’ from them (which it has been investigating— the article below is from earlier this year).
It’s another thing for the US government to suddenly yank Chinese (and other foreign national) students out of US schools.
