NEW PUB—Black Higher Education: A Historiography of Perseverance and Triumph Link to read/download: tinyurl.com/BlackHigherEdH… Link to full volume: link.springer.com/referenceworke… #History #BlackHistoryMonth

"One cannot think about American higher education for longer than fifteen consecutive minutes without either getting a headache or giving oneself over to the rhetoric of apocalypse." - Andrew M. Greeley, 1971

Any time I'm frustrated that my book isn't ranked higher on Amazon's "Education Reform and Policy" list, I can assuage that feeling by consulting the top of the chart.

Last month, I started a new job NPR and soon noticed an X thread gaining traction that purported to show a flyer from a Matamoros-based NGO urging migrants to vote for Biden. We dug in to find out the story behind the flyer and this is what we found. npr.org/2024/05/10/124…

Excellent reporting by my friend Jude Joffe-Block on shameless conspiracy-mongering by Heritage Foundation goons, who then promptly turned around and attacked her personally. Their tactics are truly sickening.

Just saying, Jimmy Carter is eligible for a second term. Just saying.

It may seem like a small semantics thing, but community colleges ARE colleges, not a stepping stone to college. Lots of good research in this article, but I really encourage folks to be careful about language that makes it seem like community college isn't "real" college.

Can't wait to see my new book, "Degrees of Risk: Navigating Insecurity and Inequality in Public Higher Education," (UChicagoPress) out in print next week! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

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The Federal Indian Boarding School Era is one of the darkest chapters of American history. The trauma experienced in those institutions haunts our conscience to this very day. Today, I'm in Arizona to issue a long overdue presidential apology for this era – and speak to how my

Fine work by Kelly, The Onion's political cartoonist

In case you needed another reason to be angry today, here's my new (grim) piece in Slate: How Trump’s proposed NIH cuts expose one of the worst-kept secrets in academia. slate.com/life/2025/02/n… via @slate

My new piece in Slate, arguing that we should cancel the 2025-2026 intercollegiate athletics season. "There’s a nuclear option to fight Trump’s war against colleges. You aren’t going to like it." slate.com/life/2025/04/n… via @slate