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4 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Fat Boy’s DOJ pressured the UVA president to resign due to a “civil rights investigation” which really means the president was pushing back on DEI initiatives.

Stephen Miller will continue to do this until a court tells him he can’t. The chances of that happening are dwindling by the minute.

The back story: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/university-virginia-president-jim-ryan-resigned-pressure-trump-rcna215620

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We're just not a serious government anymore. It's all performance art, reality television, non-sense and a large portion of the America eat it up like their now $12 value meals leading to health problems they won't have addressed because they're losing Medicaid. 

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5 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Indiana about to become the first P4/AAU university that turns into ITT tech

 

 

Chamber of Commerce types should not be anywhere near education.

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Indiana about to become the first P4/AAU university that turns into ITT tech
 
 
Very foolish considering IU's School of Music is very highly respected. Then again... MAGA!
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10 minutes ago, tchookem said:
2 hours ago, Pancho said:
Indiana about to become the first P4/AAU university that turns into ITT tech
 
 

Very foolish considering IU's School of Music is very highly respected. Then again... MAGA!

I told that teachin lady the only letters I need are USA

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4 hours ago, Captainant said:

Chamber of Commerce types should not be anywhere near education.

 

abbott laughs in your face and runs over your foot ....

 

 

AUSTIN, Texas — The gubernatorial appointed boards that oversee Texas universities soon could have new powers to control the curriculum required of students and eliminate degree programs.

 

 

The legislation sent Monday to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott marks the latest effort among Republican-led states to reshape higher education institutions that they assert have been promoting liberal ideology. It follows similar moves in Florida and Ohio.

 

 

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A little more context in the IU situation: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2025/07/01/indiana-university-to-discontinue-more-than-100-academic-programs/
 

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One of the budget bill’s provisions — inserted by the Republican majority as the legislative session reached its final hours — established a minimum average number of graduates that degree programs at Indiana’s public colleges and universities must produce over a three-year period.

If that number falls below 10 students in an associate degree program, 15 students in a BA program, seven students in master’s degree program, and three students in a doctorate degree program, the institution would have to request permission from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education to continue offering the program.


Reading between the lines (maybe too much), these are probably smaller, less popular degrees that are probably mostly being shuffled into other programs to boost and consolidate numbers. I know that’s what I’d do in this situation.

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8 minutes ago, Mole said:

A little more context in the IU situation: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2025/07/01/indiana-university-to-discontinue-more-than-100-academic-programs/
 

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One of the budget bill’s provisions — inserted by the Republican majority as the legislative session reached its final hours — established a minimum average number of graduates that degree programs at Indiana’s public colleges and universities must produce over a three-year period.

If that number falls below 10 students in an associate degree program, 15 students in a BA program, seven students in master’s degree program, and three students in a doctorate degree program, the institution would have to request permission from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education to continue offering the program.


Reading between the lines (maybe too much), these are probably smaller, less popular degrees that are probably mostly being shuffled into other programs to boost and consolidate numbers. I know that’s what I’d do in this situation.

 

If Indiana had poor leadership (which as a current administrator in higher ed, I’ve seen more poor leaders than I’ve cared to) and they weren’t doing appropriate program reviews every 3-5 years, then Indiana isn’t has good of a university as I thought it was. 

 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/trump-education-funds.html

 

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The Trump administration has declined to release nearly $7 billion in federal funding that helps pay for after-school and summer programs, support for students learning English, teacher training and other services.

The money was expected to be released by Tuesday. But in an email on Monday, the Education Department notified state education agencies that the money would not be available.

 

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The administration offered little explanation, saying only that the funds were under review. It gave no timeline for when, or if, the money would be released, saying instead that it was “committed to ensuring taxpayer resources are spent in accordance with the president’s priorities.” The frozen funds are unrelated to the millions of dollars in cuts included in the domestic policy bill that squeaked through the Senate on Tuesday.

 

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“It’s catastrophic,” said Jodi Grant, executive director of the Afterschool Alliance, a group that works to expand after-school services for students. She estimated that the federal dollars for after-school and summer-school programs — about $1.3 billion annually — support 1.4 million students, mostly lower income, representing about 20 percent of all students in after-school programs nationally.

 

 

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The move is likely to be challenged in court and has already been criticized as illegal by Democrats and teachers’ unions, who emphasized that the money had been appropriated by Congress and was approved by President Trump in March as part of a broader funding bill.

“This is lawless,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.

The administration has taken an aggressive approach to cutting back the federal government’s role in education, including plans to eliminate the Education Department entirely. Though only Congress can abolish the department, the Trump administration has taken an ax to education staffing and funding more broadly as it seeks to whittle down the department.

The administration has suggested that it may seek to eliminate the nearly $7 billion in frozen funding. Russell Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing last week that the administration was considering ways to claw back the funding through a process known as recessions. The administration would formally ask lawmakers to claw back a set of funds it has targeted for cuts. Even if Congress fails to vote on the request, the president’s timing would trigger a law that freezes the money until it ultimately expires.

“No decision has been made,” Mr. Vought said. 

The withholding of dollars on Tuesday threw school district budgets into uncertainty, with only weeks to go before the start of school in many parts of the country.

Heidi Sipe, the superintendent in Umatilla, Ore., a low-income, rural district, said her district’s after-school program has traditionally gone until 4:45 or 5:30 p.m. and was fully funded through federal dollars.

She recently sent a note to parents urging them to make backup plans, though few exist in her community, where she said there is no Y.M.C.A. or similar alternatives.

In Omaha, Nicole Everingham, who helps manage after-school funding for programs at 42 public schools, said a loss of funding would force her group to consolidate the number of schools that can offer after-school care, and also mean fewer slots for students, because of staffing reductions.

“It completely puts us in flux,” said Ms. Everingham, the development director for Collective for Youth, which helps coordinate after-school programming for about half of Omaha public schools.

Even if the money comes through after a delay, she said, it could disrupt the ability to hire staff by the start of school in mid-August, creating chaos for working parents who depend on after-school programs.

Many school districts also rely on federal dollars to help non-English-speaking students and families, including training teachers and hiring translators.

“Without this outreach, families who do not speak English could be cut off from schools and the support system they need,” said Ana DeGenna, the school district superintendent in Oxnard, Calif.

Several of the federally funded programs have been in place for decades. The 21st Century Community Learning Centers, which support before- and after-school programs, were created in 1994 by federal legislation, and expanded six years later with the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act. Both measures, the first passed during a Democratic administration and the second under a Republican president, were approved by broad bipartisan majorities.

One of the newest programs, known as Student Support and Academic Enrichment grants, has been in place for a decade, supporting many services for issues like mental health and school technology. That law that authorized those grants received broad bipartisan support, including from Representative Tim Walberg of Michigan and Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, both Republicans who are now chairmen of the education committees in their respective chambers.

But criticism about cutting funding for these programs has largely been limited to Democrats.

“Every day that this funding is held up is a day that school districts are forced to worry about whether they’ll have to cut back on after-school programs or lay off teachers instead of worrying about how to make sure our kids can succeed,” Senator Patty Murray, a Democrat who is the vice chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said in a statement.

 

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5 hours ago, Pancho said:

 

If Indiana had poor leadership (which as a current administrator in higher ed, I’ve seen more poor leaders than I’ve cared to) and they weren’t doing appropriate program reviews every 3-5 years, then Indiana isn’t has good of a university as I thought it was. 

 

It is my vibe that the higher ed management pipeline is as dog shit and reliant on consulting as every other management pipeline that I've come across. Just there to make a splash and leave before everyone gets wet kind of thing.

Am I off base? I feel like everything is boiling down to profit and loss, even education and civic services

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3 hours ago, Captainant said:

It is my vibe that the higher ed management pipeline is as dog shit and reliant on consulting as every other management pipeline that I've come across. Just there to make a splash and leave before everyone gets wet kind of thing.

Am I off base? I feel like everything is boiling down to profit and loss, even education and civic services

This is true from my experience... Especially when universities want to save money by cutting staff and reducing headcount and then bringing in consultants as defensible one time expenditures.

My uni has lost 35% of personnel in some areas but has hired (by my count) 12 different consultants or outside firms to sell us their bullshit ideas and leave with us not having any folks to do the regular work let alone any new initiative or manage the transition to a new paradigm. 

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11 hours ago, NWBuck said:

This is true from my experience... Especially when universities want to save money by cutting staff and reducing headcount and then bringing in consultants as defensible one time expenditures.

My uni has lost 35% of personnel in some areas but has hired (by my count) 12 different consultants or outside firms to sell us their bullshit ideas and leave with us not having any folks to do the regular work let alone any new initiative or manage the transition to a new paradigm. 

You just described the American business model.  Most companies, of all types but especially middle to large, are run by idiots who have yes men/women doing their bidding and the company usually only survives because middle management is holding the place together with bailing wire and duct tape.  

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23 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

You just described the American business model.  Most companies, of all types but especially middle to large, are run by idiots who have yes men/women doing their bidding and the company usually only survives because middle management is holding the place together with bailing wire and duct tape.  

Yeah, I used to harbor the notion that government was inefficient.

But then you give a clear-eyed look at most of private corporate America, and you realize it's a shit show everywhere you turn.  It's human nature.

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15 hours ago, Captainant said:

It is my vibe that the higher ed management pipeline is as dog shit and reliant on consulting as every other management pipeline that I've come across. Just there to make a splash and leave before everyone gets wet kind of thing.

Am I off base? I feel like everything is boiling down to profit and loss, even education and civic services

 

Well more leaders (Presidents) are leaving once they get their years in to get that salary and can retire. The average years of service for a President today is around 2-3 years. Are consultants to blame for that? Ehh, maybe.

What I’m finding is those who insist on using consulting firms for critical, executive positions do so because either the BoT or the President has no educational background/experience. Where I’m at now, our sister college needs a college President. So our Chancellor (that’s another story in itself) and BoT decided to use a search firm and pay them $150,000, all while we are in a “budget crunch.” What happened? It was declared a failed search. So they are going back out again this summer, using the same firm, paying the same 150k, and will come up with something that’s probably shit. 

A friend of mine and I have a theory—we believe those who are hired because of the search firm are told to enter into an agreement that when they get to a certain level and they need to do a nationwide search, they must use the search firm that found them their job. That keeps the firms going. 

 

But yes, there are some of my colleagues who really, really, really suck at their jobs—VPs, other Deans, etc. I’ve been told more than once that people like me because I’m a genuine leader who cares about higher ed and making the college run more efficiently while having student success compared to other leaders here who just want the paycheck. I appreciate that, sure, but it’s doing so much damage that we don’t need right now.



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