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Every August 6th since 2016, @erichoov's article about EMers being the bogeyman on a campus pops up in my memories. I'm too tired to reread it this year, but the final paragraph always makes me slowclap...#EMchat
Powerful to be sure, but not surprising. The conversation about low-income students has to be about access, success, & scale. All three matter to move the needle. Having just one or two is a start but not good enough. #EmChat
This week @shebel talked with Kim Wilcox at UC Riverside about one of his talking points: his university enrolls more Pell Grant recipients than the entire Ivy League combined. More in our newsletter: https://t.co/1Nsv3OORW5
@AubraBulin@econroy_1@saragoldrickrab UC system is much more centrally managed, which likely controls more of the individual campus president's pay. Texas is much more wild west!
While a bit dated it shows how UC presidents are near the bottom.
https://t.co/NcrVUsEtsy
Powerful, read again... “Colleges have made racial and class diversity into virtues with which they welcome students during orientation and entice alumni to make donations. But students of color and those from lower-income backgrounds often bear the brunt...”
"We like to think that landing a coveted college spot is a golden ticket for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. We think less critically about what happens next. I lived this gap as a first-generation college student," Anthony Abraham Jack writes https://t.co/9VZgmPF3a6
IF we disconnect this from the low-income and merit aid debate, we are missing the full story. It's about NTR to meet mission... period.
"...10-percent decrease in state appropriations was accompanied by a 12-percent increase in foreign enrollments..."
@madelinestamour not a public university enrollment manager disagrees with you. This is the dichotomous hell between mission & revenue. Institutions can't operate w/o out of state $$. The math doesn't work. If you can't pay the light bill, you can't live out your mission. #EMchat
Very eye-opening insights, Bill. @BucknellU.
“Families hear the importance of “soft skills” (communications, creativity, etc.); they just don’t accept their children need to major in a liberal-arts field to gain them and to secure a job” https://t.co/oXE2UO1lV0
For the frenzied media who love headlines but neglect the facts about loan debt. "...the student loan crisis is disproportionately a crisis for those without degrees. The likelihood of default is actually in inverse correlation to the size of the debt."
https://t.co/kE7magWZHV
Perhaps these people are the same group that believes liberal arts is a leftist political party. Tell them to look at the undergraduate degrees of many successful CEOs.
This is what makes #HigherEd so special. Despite the pundits, a lot of good things do happen on college campuses. Thank you @_HamptonU for stepping up to the plate. Sometimes mission is > money.
In the wake of Hurricane Dorian, Hampton University, a historically black institution in Virginia, will open its doors to students from the University of the Bahamas, offering a semester of free room, board and tuition to students affected. https://t.co/7TIBwphPNW
With great anticipation of celebrating #NationalBowtie day tomorrow, I thought it was critical to review the most important national holidays, in rank order:
1)Thanksgiving
2)Christmas
3)NCAA Selection Sunday
4)National Ice Cream Day (tie)
4)National Bowtie Day (tie)
Source: Me
Thank you, Fr. Kennealy! I’ve never thanked you but you are the single biggest influence on my educational journey. You didn’t apologize for your high standards and expectations. You pushed this boy from rural Ohio. You also gave me the two hardest C’s I ever earned in my life.
Fr. Thomas Kennealy, 88, retired in May after 50 years at Xavier. 🎉
He held many roles at XU and sat down recently to discuss his thoughts and memories of what he did, what he learned and whom he met along the way. #AllForOne
MORE: https://t.co/KbzcDBbQdH