Michael S. Kabbaz

StartUp Exec, HigherEd & EM expert | aspiring Leadership practitioner-scholar | Coffee & Data | Living life in constant confliction | Words may ≠ my opinion

[Michael S. Kabbaz @mskabbaz]

Sometimes facts seem to get lost in a lot of noise. #educationmatters https://t.co/TC3ymMP4JJ

[Michael S. Kabbaz @mskabbaz]

@Clark2College Behavioral Psychology?

[Jennielle Médica Strother, EdD @DraStrother]

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

[Michael S. Kabbaz @mskabbaz]

@JonBoeckenstedt @Target @rkelchen Looks like U of Illinois gear might be a hot ticket as well.

[Michael S. Kabbaz @mskabbaz]

@kevinrmcclure Rather it is the outcome of the broken college football funding model. Power 5 versus everyone else.

[Michael S. Kabbaz @mskabbaz]

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

[Scott Smallwood @ssmallwd]

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

[Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered]

24 enrollment managers offer advice to college-bound students and their parents (opinion) https://t.co/cvtPuNdGlE

[Michael S. Kabbaz @mskabbaz]

@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

[Michael S. Kabbaz @mskabbaz]

@musketeerreport Larry Sykes - defensive tackle

[Michael S. Kabbaz @mskabbaz]

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...”

[The New York Times @nytimes]

"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

[Michael S. Kabbaz @mskabbaz]

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..."

[Karin Fischer @karinfischer]

International students bailed out (some) colleges in the last recession. They won’t this time. My latest: https://t.co/uT27JaN0op

[Michael S. Kabbaz @mskabbaz]

@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

[Michael S. Kabbaz @mskabbaz]

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

[Michael S. Kabbaz @mskabbaz]

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

[Michael S. Kabbaz @mskabbaz]

#28 is why I follow @JonBoeckenstedt

[Michael S. Kabbaz @mskabbaz]

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.

[SEGA Niggasis @EarthaKlit]

Psych majors did nothing to deserve this

[Michael S. Kabbaz @mskabbaz]

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.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

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

[Michael S. Kabbaz @mskabbaz]

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

[Michael S. Kabbaz @mskabbaz]

“Don’t judge me until you know me. Don’t underestimate me until you challenge me. And don’t talk about me until you talk to me!” ― Pravinee Hurbungs

[Michael S. Kabbaz @mskabbaz]

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.

[Xavier University @XavierU]

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