Michael S. Kabbaz

Sometimes facts seem to get lost in a lot of noise. #educationmatters axios.com/2024/03/04/college…

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

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...”

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..."

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” chronicle.com/interactives/2…

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." ihenow.com/2HTKPFu

#28 is why I follow @JonBoeckenstedt

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.

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.

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

“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

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.

Stop the shortsighted & misinformed debate about the value of college, please. "...students who attended college but did not earn a degree - including those who earned certificates - were much more likely to be employed than were members of the cohort who did not go to college."

Simply put... state funding models are broken. Until we make education a national priority, #HigherEd has no choice but to supplant years of lost public funding. It isn’t sustainable and the long-term impact is chilling. The issue is simple and clear, the solutions aren’t.

Let’s take a deep breath before we get ahead of ourselves. Nudging should simply be an intervention tool in the toolkit not the overarching institutional student support strategy. A nudge strategy should be student-centered, individually targeted, and leveraged by relevant data.

Leaders create the conditions where people choose new actions. The choices are voluntary. They’re made by people who see a new landscape, new opportunities and new options. You can’t make people change. But you can create an environment where they choose to. @ThisIsSethsBlog

Thank you @anya1anya for a rare loan debt article based on real facts. This conversation needs discussed as a set of public and private trade-offs. Media loves to focus on the expense side only. Five myths about student debt wapo.st/2wexFg5?tid=ss_tw&ut… @washingtonpost