@ernestezeugo
He/him. I read about, occasionally write about, and study federal policy and higher ed. And sometimes other stuff, too. Currently: Federal Policy @ Lumina Foundation. Formerly: Young Invincibles, SHEEO, New America, and team #ED44.
It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
#ClairObscur: #Expedition33 is a narrative tour de force. Best RPG I’ve played since Final Fantasy XIV in that respect, and if I’m putting aside my biases for the games that introduced me to the genre, it is probably the very best. I’m a sucker for a story about grief though.
Trump has deported a four-year-old US citizen with a rare form of metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with their doctor.
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I wrote about education, citizenship, and the administration’s sledgehammer approach to the gains we’ve made since the civil rights era for @nytopinion.nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/o...
A blistering, abject violation of the First Amendment that cannot stand.
Looks like new BlueSky users are accelerating again with twitter going down.
If you are new, please stay, we are delightful.
And if you are looking at this, you probably have an interest in higher ed policy, so here is a starter pack for that.
go.bsky.app/4ikmJ3T
A picture of the Second Chance warehouse building, with the motto “WHAT IS AND EHAT CAN BE” strewn across the front.
The words strewn across the front of the building — “What Is and What Can Be” — have come to mean a lot to me in my time living in #Baltimore. It’s become one of my driving mottos for my work in federal policy. I, of course, still believe in that ethos. But I’m sad about the magic disappearing.
By itself, the federal wage theft lawsuit (which I’m sad I didn’t know about before hand) is damning enough, especially considering who Second Chance purports to employ and serve. It all comes across… extremely distasteful, at a minimum. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/nonp...
Well. This is the most personally devastating thing I’ve read in some time. It’s my opinion that the spirit of embezzlement is clear here, even if this deal between Second Chance’s founder and the organization is technically legal. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/nonp...
If you work in higher ed policy and read anything today, you should read @stephmhall.bsky.social on the implications of closing ED on critical programs that help students succeed, complete, and prosper.
For @teenvogue.com today, I wrote about the impact of closing the Dept of Education. Long story short: students of all ages will face a more divided, unequal system that restricts opportunities instead of creating them, and that is the point.
www.teenvogue.com/story/what-w...
in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
It’s certainly not for everyone, I guess. But I was seeing folks call it the worst halftime show since the 1992 Minnesota Marching Band show (a slight I take personal umbrage with and will talk to y’all about later). And that’s just, in my opinion, a goofy take.
Man. I finally watched the Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance and it was incredible. I don’t know what y’all are on. Production value was great, his breath work and control was incredible, SZA can really for real, song selection was great, thematic energy was great, etc.
A really sharp article about social decay and the taxonomy of violence. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Breaking News: Australia has passed a sweeping ban on social media for children under 16, one of the world’s most comprehensive measures aimed at safeguarding young people from potential hazards online. nyti.ms/3VbiGzc
This is a legendary crashout (derogatory) lmao
Xfinity will do absolutely everything in its power to make sure you don’t speak to a live agent. I mean absolutely loop you on both the virtual assistant and the automated phone line. If it weren’t so frustrating, I’d be impressed.
No way he heard the line and this was his response. 😂 I actually think it managed to convey a form of respect.
Some thoughts on the election. Moving forward, I think it’s important for everyone hoping to build inclusive and worker-friendly economy to hold the second Trump administration to account for its impacts on working people. @newamerica.bsky.social
www.newamerica.org/education-po...
A new study by the Institute of Education Sciences reveals no significant difference in employment outcomes for Pell and non-Pell students at short-term certificate programs (8-15 weeks).
However, what sticks out to me is that grads of these programs only earn ~$25K/year 3 years after completion.
Former WWE CEO Linda McMahon is likely to lead the Education Department.
McMahon has few ties to education, but @insidehighered.com did the background research on the few that do exist so you don't have to.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Was legitimately just thinking this the other day. No conclusion to a story I’ve sat through in a video game has ever hit the way Endwalker did, and that was when the world wasn’t… well, this.
Number of older adults who lost $100,000 or more to fraud has tripled since 2020, FTC says
Thread for a starter pack of Higher Ed Starter Packs
Higher Ed policy policy pros and orgs
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Higher Ed researchers
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Higher Ed reporters and contributors
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In all honesty, not sure that I want to commit to posting through it — or to social media at all, for that matter. But the growth on here has been cool, the concept of starter packs seem cool, and this place seems to be emerging as a Twitter replacement. So I’ll give it some effort.
Overtime! Cinema! (That foul call was trash though, honestly)
The #WNBAFinals has been straight up cinema.