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@gtconway3 Release the *unredacted* #MuellerReport. There WAS #TrumpRussiaCollusion (and still is, obviously), but not *enough* evidence found in Bill Barr’s #DOJ to warrant charges of a “criminal conspiracy”. #WordsMatter

Also, apropos of nothing in particular, Don Barr was the father of #BillBarr. He was the Headmaster of the Dalton School in #NewYork that hired a #college degree-less #JeffreyEpstein to teach #Math to teenage girls and boys.

#Resist #corruption in #USpol.

I disagree with Sam Altman about many things, but he is sure right about this. I tell my students the same, all the time.

"Dating back more than a decade, Altman has long cautioned that young people shouldn’t go to college without dedicating themselves to worthwhile projects and connecting with ambitious people."

I warn against college wallflowers all the time. Join a club, get a crew, get in a sport, find your nightclub, organize art shows, make events. #college

yahoo.com/news/articles/stanfo

Yahoo News · Stanford dropout Sam Altman says college is ‘not working great’ for most people—and predicts major change in the next 18 yearsBy Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

The average undergrad tuition fee in the 1974/75 academic year in Canada, across all disciplines, was $547 ($3445 adjusted to 2025)

Fees 50 years later in 2024/25 were $7360 ($7496 adjusted)

That is more than double. 117%.

And I *know* from personal experience this is a low ball average. If I could find a breakdown by discipline or by length of study for today, some would be even more obscene.

What has changed? Any occupation outside a minimum wage paying job demands a 2-4yr undergraduate diploma or degree, if not more.

Think about the 1970s and how common it was for people to get good paying jobs, leading to careers, without even high school education. Our free education stops with high school.
My family is a good example.
Mom and Step Dad: teacher college/degree. One got a Masters mid career.
Dad: didn’t complete HS
Father in law: didn’t complete HS
Mother in law: completed HS mid-career

Leadership positions and full careers demand a Masters or PhD requiring 5-10 years of study after HS!

Add in the cost of food and housing and the massive cuts happening at all colleges and universities because of the loss of international student tuition and I am going to go out on a limb and say our students today are going to pay double the price for a far worse experience than possibly any time since the Second World War.

Public education should be free.

Food and Housing should be controlled.

If the only thing government cares about is the economy, then they are setting us up for failure, and have been for decades.

(Don’t get me started on the kinds of “values” Canadian governments demonstrate when International student tuitions are 5x more than domestic students, let alone the inherent revenue risk in that funding strategy that has now come home to roost)

#canpoli #cdnpoli #education #university #college #canada
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74/75 Source Stats Can: www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/e

24/25 source stats can: www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/e

cc: @Paulatics @josie_osborne

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The #Trump admin has opened a new investigation into #HarvardUniversity’s *compliance* with a government-run #visa program for #InternationalStudents & #professors, targeting the elite #college with the third aggressive action since the 2 sides restarted talks to end their acrimonious *dispute* [Trump attacks].

Secy of #State #MarcoRubio notified Dr. Alan M. Garber, the president of #Harvard, of the investigation in a letter on Wednesday….

Here's what students, K-12 schools, and colleges can expect now that "One Big Beautiful Bill" is officially law:

•K-12 #school vouchers are going national (sort of)
•Loss of Medicaid funds to K-12 schools
•Cuts to food assistance & school meals
•Increase to the #ChildTaxCredit
•Big changes to federal #StudentLoans
•Changes to #PellGrants for low-income students
•An accountability earnings test for colleges
•Higher #tax on #college endowments

npr.org/2025/07/18/nx-s1-54597

Kentucky Wildcats ranked in the top 15 of USA Today’s way-too-early college basketball rankings

We have entered the talking season for college football, and with that, the new season also…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #NCAABasketball #a #Basketball #blue #college #early #exclude-from-stn-video #front-page #in #kentucky #kentucky-wildcats-basketball #NCAA #of #ranked #Rankings #s #sea #Sports #the #today #too #top #way #wildcats
newsbeep.com/us/25881/