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National Institute on Transfer Finds a New Home After fears of closure, NISTS—a repository for the study of transfer students—is relocating to the University of South Carolina.

The beloved National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students has found a new home in the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition @sc.edu : buff.ly/8nm2fF5 @nists.bsky.social #AcademicSky #highered @saraweissman.insidehighered.com

In our concerns about addressing the challenges of transfer students, who represent an increasing percentage of all postsecondary students, we should not forget international transfer students, who have their own unique challenges: buff.ly/VPOTHS0 #AcademicSky #highered

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Children must learn when it's useful to persist & when it's not. Both they & their caregivers learn to judge this based on (1) what they think about the children's capabilities & (2) the value of the outcome: buff.ly/OxYYqyE #psychology #highered #AcademicSky @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social

Fat sensory cues in early life program central response to food and obesity - Nature Metabolism Non-nutritive sensory components of high-fat diet, such as bacon flavour, are sufficient to impair metabolic health in offspring in mice.

Simply exposing pregnant #mice to bacon odors, without any change in their diets, predisposed their offspring to #obesity due to accompanying brain wiring changes: buff.ly/7KVn4DQ #health #fat

The Relationship Between Course Structure and Intensity, and Student Success in Developmental Education - Toby J Park-Gaghan, Christine G. Mokher, 2025 Texas legislation mandated that colleges offer developmental education using a corequisite model, where students concurrently enroll in introductory college-lev...

Is good consensus that corequisite remediation promotes student success better than traditional, prereq remediation (see buff.ly/MR1CEby ), but which if the many ways to do coreq is best? May be no single best method, & even 1 credit of coreq can help: buff.ly/uxUZoaL #AcademicSky #highered #math

Keeping track of college transfers | WilmingtonBiz National data following a 2015 cohort of community college students through 2021 suggests that only 16% ultimately earn a bachelor’s degree. At first glance, the percentage, part of data gathered by…

Potential vertical transfer students (students who want to transfer from associate to bachelor's programs) in #NorthCarolina face many of the same challenges in completing their degrees that are faced by vertical transfer students in other states. buff.ly/DMVq4k4 #AcademicSky #highered

In the end, what matters most for the success of transfer students is how the students themselves feel about their experience. Hear directly from students about this in a webinar this Friday, 3-5pm EST (you can register at buff.ly/U45jEHB or scan the attached QR code). #AcademicSky #highered

CCV program offers college credit for skills gained outside the classroom The Community College of Vermont is trying to change that by awarding college credit for skills learned on the job, not just in the classroom.

The Community College of Vermont has a program for giving students college credit for their work experience: buff.ly/ZGgPlVE This can help students get their degrees quicker. Credits should belong to students & travel with them, wherever they go in their higher ed journeys. #AcademicSky #highered

Michigan sends message to 80,000 high school students: Take AP classes - Bridge Michigan High school students with a high score on pre-SAT tests are being encouraged to get on track for college.

The state of #Michigan is encouraging HS students with relatively high PSAT scores to take AP classes to get them college credits & save later college tuition: buff.ly/ptEymPE But will those AP classes really result in college credits that count towards degree requirements? #AcademicSky #highered

How can you study what wild animals are actually eating without having to catch or otherwise interfere with or disturb those animals? Examine the stomach contents of roadkill! Roadkill can also be used for other studies such as the abundance of certain species or disease prevalence: buff.ly/E16lQLf

High-precision tracking of human foragers reveals adaptive social information use in the wild Foraging complexity and competitive social challenges are considered key drivers of human cognition. Yet, the decision-making mechanisms that underlie social foraging in the real world remain…

Math modeling of human & nonhuman foraging behavior has been going on for a while (see Ch. 7 of buff.ly/VFYzOfZ ). Now such modeling has been done w. competitive ice fishers in #Finland, helping to explain when they do & don't change where they fish on the ice. buff.ly/E16lQLf #psychology

Report: Remedial Enrollments Surged at UCSD Amid Shifting Placement Testing Conditions | Just Equations The release of a faculty report from the University of California, San Diego in November 2025 set off a firestorm of news coverage and op-eds about college-level math preparation. Much of the…

Huge congrats to @pamela.burdman.bsky.social for figuring out the increase in remedial #math placement at @ucsandiego.bsky.social, which had been attributed to #covid & more low-income students, coincided w. a new ban on calculator use in the placement test: buff.ly/K2clduc #AcademicSky #highered

The Urban/Rural Divide: Exploring Variations in Dual Enrollment Participation and Impacts by Locale This paper uses a propensity score weighting approach to explore how the impact of dual enrollment varies by locale (rural and urban/suburban settings); we then apply an established methodological ...

Students in rural settings seem to benefit more from dual enrollment (college courses taught to high school students) than do students in urban settings, possibly because the latter have more access to alternative types of advanced courses: buff.ly/wBS8eA3 #AcademicSky #highered

Expanding Access to Credit for Prior Learning for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Learners - Ithaka S+R Despite the growing adoption of Credit for Prior Learning in higher education, incarcerated and formerly incarcerated learners remain disconnected from the advantages CPL can offer. While recent…

CAEL (Council for Adult & Experiential Learning) has long sought to increase college students getting CPL(credit for prior learning)acquired in nontraditional settings. Now Ithaka S+R is investigating how to increase current & past incarcerated people's CPL: buff.ly/WWphSOt #AcademicSky #highered

The Fight Over Community College Bachelor’s Degrees Earning a four-year degree at a two-year institution is now possible in nearly half of all states—and others are exploring the option. But many universities are not happy about it.

An increasing number of states are permitting community colleges to offer bachelor's degrees, but many IHEs (public & private) in those states aren't happy about it. This piece details the struggles in some of those states. buff.ly/tVjrDi6 #AcademicSky #highered @sara.weissman.insidehighered.com

Time Is Not Really on My Side: How Two‐Year Transfer Student Graduation Timelines Affect Engagement in High‐Impact Practices Four-year university policies and practices typically promote a two-year normative graduation timeline for transfer students, but there is limited information about the ramifications of these…

Concerns about finishing their bachelor's within 2 yrs may inhibit vertical transfer students from participating in time-consuming high-impact practices like internships: buff.ly/bEWfstC But taking >2yrs to finish increases risk of nonacademic events interfering w. finishing. #AcademicSky #highered

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Some researchers believe that some people have very little, or no, experience of inner speech. This is called anendophasia, & its existence is controversial. But I know some people who I think would be good candidates for this diagnosis. buff.ly/mWpZ6F7 #psychology #AcademicSky #highered

Why does orange juice taste bad after you brush your teeth? There’s a scientific reason your OJ tastes funny after you brush your teeth

Have you noticed OJ tastes terrible if you drink it after brushing your teeth? Prof. Linda Bartoshuk: that's because "toothpaste contains a detergent that dissolves fat. & since your taste buds are partly made of fat, they are disrupted whenever you brush your teeth." buff.ly/cEMVbRB #psychology

California wants colleges to count work experience for credit. How’s it going? California community colleges can give credit for relevant work experience, but some students don’t know it’s an option.

In #California colleges are supposed to give credit for prior work experience, however communication and record-keeping problems are hindering the progress and monitoring of these efforts: buff.ly/c5G2otO #AcademicSky #highered

Many US community colleges want to offer bachelor's degrees. About half of the states currently allow this. An example of a community college that wants to offer these degrees: #Iowa Central Community College. Times-Republican 2/4/26. AcademicSky #highered

LEARN Commission CLR/LER, comprehensive learner record, learner education record, IMS Global, CLR Standard, digital credentials ecosystem

Let’s #TransformHigherEd with the recommendations from the #LEARNCommission, convened by AACRAO and Sova, with goal of ensuring that #highered students get ALL their learning evaluated fairly & counted towards their degrees at ALL IHEs. Download your copy of the report: buff.ly/gqeovXf #AcademicSky

Please register at buff.ly/dZICBqY for the 2/24/26, 2-3pm, free @insidehighered.com-sponsored webcast titled “Fixing the Credit Evaluation System: A Blueprint for the 21st Century Learner.” Panelists will be Carolyn Gentle-Genitty (Butler U), Melanie Gottlieb (AACRAO), Juana Sanchez (Sova), & me.

An Interim President for Every Institution (column) What if colleges and universities hired short-term leaders for a year or three to get the really hard stuff done?

See Doug Lederman's great piece on why many IHEs could use interim presidents: buff.ly/SFR3kUf Having supervised the evals of 20 CUNY colleges' presidents for 8 yrs, I completely agree that, for many reasons, many avoided necessary, but controversial, acts. #AcademicSky #highered buff.ly/QZo5PsV

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In this study of street-identified Black Americans, cannabis use decreased the increase in blood pressure due to severe exposure to violence, but it also decreased "emotional functioning (e.g., symptoms of anxiety and depression)." buff.ly/0lR2CPO #pot #marijuana #psychology #depression #anxiety

Gender Bias in Creativity: A Process Model for Understanding the Gender Gap in Creative Achievement - Christa L. Taylor, 2026 The gender gap in creative achievement, wherein women are underrepresented as high-achieving creators across domains, has far-reaching consequences for individu...

"Despite minimal differences between men and women in creative potential and ability", "women are underrepresented as high-achieving creators across domains." This article describes some of the reasons for these findings, developing a model to help explain them: buff.ly/g08PsPh #psychology

College admissions offices take on a new role: Coaxing accepted students to show up As enrollment falls and Americans increasingly question the returns on a college education, once intimidating admissions offices are getting involved in making sure accepted students have what they…

It isn't just newly admitted freshmen that IHEs have to worry about not actually enrolling (summer melt; buff.ly/hJuKiuJ), this also happens with new transfer students--students who are admitted to transfer but enroll nowhere (what we call transfer melt, buff.ly/PpWj7gR ). #AcademicSky #highered

Barbershop Builds Community for Black Male Students LaGuardia Community College’s biweekly barbershop sessions offer connection, mentorship and candid conversations about life as a young Black man.

Yesterday I posted about LaGuardia Community College (@laguardiacc.bsky.social), CUNY's (@cuny.edu) new grant related to workforce Pell grants. This IHE is also running a free barbershop for Black male students that fosters conversation and community: buff.ly/HmPxh1H #AcademicSky #highered

4-Year Institutions Eye Programs Eligible for Workforce Pell Four-year colleges and universities won nearly half of the FIPSE grants awarded for short-term programs eligible for Workforce Pell, surprising some community college leaders who have spent decades…

LaGuardia Community College (@laguardiacc.bsky.social), CUNY (@cuny.edu), has been awarded a $2M FIPSE grant for short-term programs eligible for Workforce Pell in partnership w., eg, nonprofit Per Scholas (buff.ly/ssrrDYM ): buff.ly/WPThbW2 @saraweissman.insidehighered.com #AcademicSky #highered

Dual Enrollment Is a School Choice Option People Don’t Talk About — but Should Manno: Nearly 20% of community college students are high schoolers. This is not a boutique program. It's a system that can quickly expand opportunity

"National School Choice Week typically highlights the options available to families when selecting a school....But there’s another form of choice that rarely gets the spotlight. It’s a choice about....dual enrollment" (HS students taking college courses) buff.ly/sGeZ449 #AcademicSky #highered

Boston College has an embedded, residential assoc-degree program for students w. financial need. Qualified graduates transfer seamlessly to its bach's degrees. buff.ly/7oxRe2y @bostoncollege.bsky.social Butler University has a similar program. @butleru.bsky.social #AcademicSky #highered