TheJonesest
@thejonesest.bsky.social
Currently: Higher education academic & adminstrator. Alumni: USMC (Infantry) & University of Florida (PhD)
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Honored to contribute a chapter to Supporting Military-Connected College Students: Applying Theory to Student Affairs Practice, a practical, evidence-based guide to help student veterans & military-connected students thrive in higher ed. Available now! #highered #studentveterans tinyurl.com/dyar847u
Supporting Military-Connected College Students: Applying Theory to Student Affairs Practice
This valuable resource provides an up-to-date and accessible evidence-based guide to help ensure student veteran and military-connected student success in higher education institutions. Chapter author...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Honored to contribute a chapter to Supporting Military-Connected College Students: Applying Theory to Student Affairs Practice, a practical, evidence-based guide to help student veterans & military-connected students thrive in higher ed. Available now! #highered #studentveterans tinyurl.com/dyar847u
Texas is home to a number of world class public universities. Texas politicians seem hell bend on destroying them. You can't have elite postsecondary institutions under a subnational authoritarian system. Period. #highered www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Texas Tech Puts Its Anti-Trans Rules In Writing
Race and sexuality course content is also caught up in the university system’s expansive new content review policies.
www.insidehighered.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Texas is home to a number of world class public universities. Texas politicians seem hell bend on destroying them. You can't have elite postsecondary institutions under a subnational authoritarian system. Period. #highered www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
This timeline is desperately in need of new Rage Against the Machine.
December 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This timeline is desperately in need of new Rage Against the Machine.
How your email finds me.
December 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
How your email finds me.
I unabashedly love Stranger Things but there's no reason for Eleven to still not be using contractions when she speaks. It's a writing tic to show she's "different" but spending the mid-80s in an American high school would've fixed that.
November 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I unabashedly love Stranger Things but there's no reason for Eleven to still not be using contractions when she speaks. It's a writing tic to show she's "different" but spending the mid-80s in an American high school would've fixed that.
In today's This is Not Normal: Before creating new degrees, Indiana’s public colleges and universities will have to explain to the state how they will promote "American values." #highered
www.ipm.org/news/2025-11...
www.ipm.org/news/2025-11...
Universities must explain how new degrees promote American values
The new degree proposal form issued by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education asks how programs cultivate "commitment to the core values of American society."
www.ipm.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
In today's This is Not Normal: Before creating new degrees, Indiana’s public colleges and universities will have to explain to the state how they will promote "American values." #highered
www.ipm.org/news/2025-11...
www.ipm.org/news/2025-11...
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watching Florida football
November 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
watching Florida football
A Man on the Inside (season 2) was grown in a lab to precisely appeal to all of my personal and professional interests. It's also surgically accurate in its portrail of higher ed in a very funny (and charming) way. 1/2
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A Man on the Inside (season 2) was grown in a lab to precisely appeal to all of my personal and professional interests. It's also surgically accurate in its portrail of higher ed in a very funny (and charming) way. 1/2
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
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People want to believe that the GOP’s electoral success in red states is the result of dirty tricks and gerrymandering instead of the sincerely held beliefs of a majority of the population because a mechanical issue is easier to fix than wrestling with how to make people not believe what they do.
November 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
People want to believe that the GOP’s electoral success in red states is the result of dirty tricks and gerrymandering instead of the sincerely held beliefs of a majority of the population because a mechanical issue is easier to fix than wrestling with how to make people not believe what they do.
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along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president
GOTHLETE!
also:
our sister publication, NIL-Wire, wrote its most important story yet.
a sit down with Boise State's Goth Volleyball Player
www.nil-wire.com/p/nora-hayd-...
our sister publication, NIL-Wire, wrote its most important story yet.
a sit down with Boise State's Goth Volleyball Player
www.nil-wire.com/p/nora-hayd-...
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
GOTHLETE!
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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Hertling: "Our country endures not because of what we possess, but because of what we believe... The men and women who call themselves veterans remind me that a republic survives only when its citizens choose responsibility over indifference, sacrifice over convenience, community over isolation."
Who We Choose to Be: A Reflection on the Character of Veterans
A shared culture of service.
www.thebulwark.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Hertling: "Our country endures not because of what we possess, but because of what we believe... The men and women who call themselves veterans remind me that a republic survives only when its citizens choose responsibility over indifference, sacrifice over convenience, community over isolation."
University of Nebraska is eliminating its Educational Administration program, one of the best in the country. #highered www.dailynebraskan.com/news/breakin...
BREAKING: UNL Chancellor shares final $27.5 million budget cut proposal
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Rodney Bennett announced his final budget reduction proposal in an email to students, faculty and staff on Monday.
www.dailynebraskan.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
University of Nebraska is eliminating its Educational Administration program, one of the best in the country. #highered www.dailynebraskan.com/news/breakin...
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Incredibly bittersweet to be published in Teen Vogue this weekend after devastating layoffs, including my editor for this piece. It’s about how beauty influencers have fallen into and become part of the alt-right pipeline targeting girls and women
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
The 'Womanosphere' Is Coming for Teen Girls
How beauty and wellness influencers are part of a misinformation ecosystem pushing traditional values on girls.
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Incredibly bittersweet to be published in Teen Vogue this weekend after devastating layoffs, including my editor for this piece. It’s about how beauty influencers have fallen into and become part of the alt-right pipeline targeting girls and women
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
Some of the cooler things I think are going on in higher education these days.
Utrecht, Georgetown, Manchester | HESA
I’ve been poking around a lot of university websites from around the globe recently – mainly but not exclusively because I’m putting the finishing touches to The World of Higher Education – Year in Re...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Conservatives Don't Read part infinity.
Per Danny Kemp via press pool
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
November 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Conservatives Don't Read part infinity.
Prompted by our university system’s expenditure of $17 million on OpenAI’s ChatGPT Edu product amid great institutional austerity, my colleague Martha Kenney and I wrote this piece to explore the compacts that are being struck between genAI and higher ed.
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
OSF
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October 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Researchers "found nearly 60% of teachers pick up at least one extra job outside of their primary teaching work"
#k12 #teachers
www.edweek.org/leadership/i...
#k12 #teachers
www.edweek.org/leadership/i...
www.edweek.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Researchers "found nearly 60% of teachers pick up at least one extra job outside of their primary teaching work"
#k12 #teachers
www.edweek.org/leadership/i...
#k12 #teachers
www.edweek.org/leadership/i...
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It cannot get lost in the shuffle, even with so much else going on, that the world's most wealthy people have had their minds absolutely rotted out, just saturated to the dripping point with black mold down to the studs and frame, by the all encompassing unhumanity of their wealth.
October 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
It cannot get lost in the shuffle, even with so much else going on, that the world's most wealthy people have had their minds absolutely rotted out, just saturated to the dripping point with black mold down to the studs and frame, by the all encompassing unhumanity of their wealth.
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"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it
October 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it
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I wrote about the degrading choices our political system forces on us, the importance of respecting yourself, and the time I experienced a mild Oliver Stone moment at Sammy's Deluxe in Rockland, Maine. defector.com/what-job-is-...
What Job Is A Guy With A Nazi Tattoo Qualified For? | Defector
The man that my wife and I found ourselves talking to at the bar of a restaurant in Rockland, Me. in the summer of 2019 had arrived in town as your fancier visitors do, which is by boat. He told us th...
defector.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I wrote about the degrading choices our political system forces on us, the importance of respecting yourself, and the time I experienced a mild Oliver Stone moment at Sammy's Deluxe in Rockland, Maine. defector.com/what-job-is-...
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The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie.
An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.
So finish the thing.
An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.
So finish the thing.
November 13, 2024 at 2:38 PM
The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie.
An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.
So finish the thing.
An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.
So finish the thing.
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Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half
Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.