I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Thank your sharing. I read their exchange closely and he does a nice job putting it in context

University leaders need to keep pushing back on the "everyone hates higher ed" fallacy. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

So many echoes from this article for US politics....

Looking forward to commenting on this paper.

It is a very nice paper that I assign in my classes

Today at 5:00 on zoom and in person. Tune in if you can. harriman.columbia.edu/event/10-yea...

New Economist/YouGov poll:

– 39% approval/57% disapproval. Both are the worst of Trump's second term
– 35/57 approval on the economy.
– Net approval of -18% is "the second-lowest net approval Trump has received in any Economist / YouGov poll" while president (today.yougov.com/politics/art...)

This is an important point.

Are the espn tennis announcers paid by the word?

Agreed. Last night I tried to come up with a list of players that would make me root for Djokovic and it was a struggle.

This is what the University of Chicago correctly saw coming down the pike. They had built a world-leading cluster of language and area studies work on funding that is just going to... stop.

This is absolutely catastrophic for U.S. higher education, and for U.S. global leadership. Just the latest in a series of senseless acts of self-sabotage by a malevolent administration bent on making the United States weak and poor.

Americans broadly hate all of this, and we all gotta remember that when it feels like things are spinning out of control

Few charts show our current American weakness like this one.

The minute Trump came into office, Putin knew he had the green light to do whatever he wanted and kill as many innocent civilians as he wanted.

These are not concessions. They are objectives that have not been met being framed as concessions. Like me saying it is a concession when I shoot a layup rather than dunking a basketball.

"Uneasy Mix?" Seriously NYT? This is lawfare in a particularly pure form and straight from the autocratic playbook.

Hugely important. Thanks to our broken discourse over immigration stats people falsely imagined that all of Obama's removals ("deportations") were long-term residents, when that was actually a small %. What's happening now is so much more different than the # of removals ("deportations") suggests.

lol NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...

Look forward to reading and - more importantly for you - to assigning it to my large lecture class on autocracy and democracy in the spring. Congratulations.

A hugely important point is that international students pay full tuition, so they actually make it CHEAPER for US students to attend college, by allowing for more money for scholarships. Across the board, the reality is we need MORE international students.

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Here's one for you.

None of these are "fair deals" for Ukraine and Ukraine may or may not take them. But those would be deals that involve an actual Ru concession. A pinky promise not to continue its invasion is NOT a Ru concession.