When I write my annual review of the best leads or 'ledes' among Pulitzer winners/finalists, I feel pressure to write a decent lead myself.
Here it is: 'Taken together this year's Pulitzer Prize stories were great. Their leads, not so much.'
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Latest lessons from Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education's redesign. How organizational shapes contours of transformational change. Not how 'culture eats strategy for breakfast' but how culture is a lever that drives change if engaged purposefully, constrains it if not.
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#Highered Data Nerds!!!

Do you regularly pull data from U.S. Department of Education? Are you often tasked with combining data with unique IPEDS and OPEID identifiers?

My new paper offers simple and effective techniques for harmonizing these different types of data.

---> carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/wp-content/upl…

Just terrible...every time I pass a store and see all the food still in there...Foxtrot grocery store bankruptcy: How laws work against small creditors, contractors. slate.com/business/2024/…

Transferring from community college to a four-year school isn't often successful — it's 'terribly unfortunate,' expert says cnbc.com/2024/02/13/com…

'professors say students are coming into college with a host of new and alarming learning challenges, including fragmented and distracted thinking, along with sharper limits on what they are willing or able to do' chronicle.com/article/is-thi…

The Chronicle of Higher Ed (The Chronicle of Higher Education) asks 'Is this the end of reading?' In a word, yes. And college faculty are noticing.
generationtechblog.com/p/are-books-de…

Also recent data from Gates/HCM/Edge Research as highlighted here by Goldie Blumenstyk in one of her newsletters: chronicle.com/newsletter/the…

We have Terrell Halaska Dunn to talk about this research next week on Future U. Podcast

'There is little evidence that a single, defined “purpose” is necessary for a rewarding career. In fact, it can be quite the opposite. It’s surprisingly common to go after what we think is our purpose only to discover that we hate it.' hbr.org/2024/04/your-c…

Teachers are underpaid. There’s a shortage, and we need more people to enter and persist in the profession.

One way to help? Don’t leave them saddled in student debt.

Chad Aldeman lays out how different degree programs show wildly different outcomes.

👉 chadaldeman.com/p/is-a-degree-…

Great newsletter from Paul Fain today on tapping technology to expand mentorship. Long after we leave school, we remember the people. Nearly 30 years after I graduated from Ithaca College I'll see one of my mentors this weekend. the-job.beehiiv.com/p/ondemand-hum…

Recently on Future U. Podcast, we explored belonging and purpose as critical to post-pandemic student success. A survey we just completed of parents for my next book has findings on this front about what parents are willing to compromise on prestige for. futureupodcast.com/episodes/stude…

Still can't believe that Condé Nast once occupied 23 floors and now it occupies 6.

Jeff Selingo None at all IMO. If anything, the responsibility falls to the dean or the provost. However there is plenty of *opportunity* for STEM faculty here, and humanities faculty, if they think it's worth the effort.

We're excited to announce Open Campus Texas, a collaborative approach to covering a state with 2 million college students. We've added two new parters, Fort Worth Report + Houston Landing in addition to our ongoing work with El Paso Matters + Texas Tribune: opencampusmedia.org/2024/05/15/ope…