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1/2 I have a close friend who was a member of the committee that recommended the re-test and their deliberations sounded grueling and stressful. And I think it points to a larger social problem: any sense of fairness through rationing social opportunities via “educational merit” is gone, everywhere.

Did 75,000 Students Cheat on a College-Entrance Exam in Mexico?The country’s largest public university is requiring all students who passed its entrance exam to take a new test after experts found evidence of widespread cheating, including with A.I.www.nytimes.com

New study out in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis with Will Zahran, Hope Allchin, @justinortagus.bsky.social @kellyrosinger.bsky.social @robertkelchen.com. We find that tying state funding to degrees in high-demand fields like STEM and health didn't boost completion doi.org/10.3102/0162...

All the breathless coverage about evangelist Tommie Zito buying Green Mountain College to launch a network of international universities didn't add up. So I dug in and found that he started a short-lived Bible college in 2015 and has a history of grandiose promises and fabrications. bit.ly/3RCRknd

A Green Mountain College Resurrection?An evangelist wants to reopen a closed campus in rural Vermont. But the finances and strategy are unclear, and his prior attempt at running a college raises questions.www.insidehighered.com

It seems like half the stories I write these days involve a college cutting programs and jobs. This week I got to write about one trying to do something else to stop the bleeding.

What Can a Struggling University Do if It Can’t Cut Any More? Change.Instead of continuing to shrink, Southern Oregon U. is trying to shift how it functions.www.chronicle.com

The Iowa Board of Regents voted to suspend all courses offered through the University of Iowa’s Center for Intellectual Freedom until 2028 as the search for its permanent director continues.

Center for Intellectual freedom classes on holdThis is an installment in a multipart series The Iowa Board of Regents voted Wednesday to pause all courses offered through the University of Iowa’s Center for Intellectual Freedom, citing the need to...dailyiowan.com

BERLIN WALL BOWL eurekareddevils.com/sports/fball...

Eureka College and Westminster College Launch Berlin Wall Bowl, a First-of-Its-Kind College Football Rivalry Inspired by Cold War HistoryEUREKA, Ill. – The athletic departments of Eureka College and Westminster College today announced the creation of the Berlin Wall Bowl, a new nonconference football rivalry believed to be the only col...eurekareddevils.com

NEW: The Trump administration is considering levying a $100K fee on optional practical training, the postgraduate work program for international students. It could discourage students, many of whom want work experience in addition to a degree, from coming to the U.S. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | U.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After GraduationThe proposed policy would particularly affect Silicon Valley, Wall Street and universities.www.wsj.com

The case is: University of Tennessee Research Foundation v. Anthropic PBC, Docket No. 1:26-cv-00887 (D. Del. Jul 20, 2026). Assigned to Judge Hall. Patents-in-suit: - US 10,019,470 - US 10,095,718 (These are both utility patents, which we can tell just by looking at the numbers.)

The amazing thing - well, one of the amazing things - about @robertkelchen.com's database here is the sheer number of institutions with enrolment drops of 30% or more - it's 360, or about 13% of the total. And it's only going to get worse.

Is Your College Losing Money?Search this database to see how your institution stacks up.www.chronicle.com

Let's be honest: managing workload is really challenging, there are far more requests coming in than I could ever hope to fulfill. This blog post is me thinking through how to kindly say no to requests in a way that respects the requester and my limited time.

How to Kindly Say No to RequestsTime is perhaps the most precious commodity in existence. No matter who you are, there are only 24 hours in a day—and I sincerely hope that it is not your goal to work excessive and sometimes dange…robertkelchen.com

As someone who spends a *lot* of time thinking about outcomes based contracting: this was entirely avoidable. The state could have established a maximum payout (that it could afford) upfront. Part of the point of OBC is to build trust between parties by holding up your end of the bargain.

“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”

A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.share.inquirer.com

I'm in a crew of dollars who track these types of developments in higher ed funding and I'm really interested in how the first full budget cycle goes with pbf

"According to Faithwire, Zito made a deal with whiskey maven Raj Bhakta, the founder of WhistlePig Whiskey, who plans to give away a $200 million college campus in Poultney, Vermont, formerly known as the Methodist-affiliated Green Mountain College." HE sentence of the year?

Defunct Vermont College to be Reborn as Christ-Centered 'Z University' - Milton QuintanillaDefunct Vermont College to be Reborn as Christ-Centered 'Z University', Milton Quintanilla - Read breaking news headlies with a Christian perspective and commentary from Milton Quintanilla.crosswalk.com

Science!

How much we fart in a day, according to science — and which age group is the gassiestGiven how flatulence can give us insight into gut health, it’s surprising how little we know about the line between what’s good and what’s excessive, researchers say.nypost.com

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: Trellis Strategies RFP to examine how quality career coaching and work-based learning relate to students' economic and social mobility. Five to ten grants of $10,000–$25,000 to support 10–20 page papers. 📅 Proposals due August 14, 2026. Details and full RFP at uniqo.de/s0AeDq

Insane brawl between LG Twins 1B Austin Dean and the pitcher here. Pitcher knew it was coming, throwing their hat and glove. Just such a violent sport sometimes.

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Facing political attack and falling enrollment, colleges take the fight to … each other. @jonmarcusboston.bsky.social of @hechingerreport.org on how competition is intensifying among schools and recruiters for a dwindling pool of students.

Facing Political Attack and Falling Enrollment, Colleges Take the Fight to … Each OtherAs Americans have fewer children, competition is intensifying among institutions and recruiters for a dwindling pool of students.washingtonmonthly.com

Was a national civics competition for high-school kids ... Rigged? Biased? Botched? I followed one family through Trump's patriotic contest and found a remarkable story about our age of suspicion. For @notus.com: www.notus.org/national/ame...

Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics ContestAmerica’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.www.notus.org