Rick Seltzer

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[Rick Seltzer @RSeltzer]

Everything you should have learned in J-school, in 19 tweets.

[Jesse Eisinger @eisingerj]

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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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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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: https://t.co/3IirZXOrCd

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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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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: https://t.co/7mmsSoZPPd

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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: https://t.co/Kzhe7C3PqV

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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: https://t.co/gP98G2Yccz

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Today's briefing: A pro's coach comes to college, but why does this seem so familiar? Subscribe: https://t.co/1sRWVET0Sx

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Today's Daily Briefing: We've reached peak high-school graduate, and coming decreases will reshape colleges. Subscribe for more: https://t.co/iWZpej9W1Z

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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: https://t.co/6WFfasVTgl

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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: https://t.co/L5StIRltEY

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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: https://t.co/KIbEk43SrU

[kang @jaycaspiankang]

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.

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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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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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Today's Daily Briefing: Can small colleges fulfill donors' wishes? Should they?

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It helps to have a rye sense of humor.

[Heather Long @byHeatherLong]

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.
https://t.co/fPl7kdVKrC

[Jill Geisler @JillGeisler]

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."

[Brian Eason @brianeason]

“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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