The GSV Big 10: The Team! The Team!
Santa hits the Transfer Portal, Crow and Moe, 4+4 No More?
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The Big 10:
Why I Chose the University of Florida | Inside Higher Ed
Christmas came early for Florida as ex-Michigan President Santa Ono hit the transfer portal from the relative North Pole of Ann Arbor for Tallahassee. While the University of Florida has received significant recognition as one of the best public universities on the planet, the University of Michigan is arguably already that. State leadership was one of the reasons given for the switch but I’d like to understand Santa’s NIL package.
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Three of ‘Big Four’ see steep drop in postgrad enrollment | University World News
The Big Four of the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada historically have been beneficiaries of International student demand. In the First Quarter of 2025, applications fell off a cliff with only the UK showing growth. Trump Administration rhetoric perceived as anti-foreigner could be part of it but it doesn’t explain Australia or Canada.
🎙️ Ep. 45 · ASU President Dr. Michael Crow | Ed on the Edge | Dash Media
In Michael Crow’s 23 years at ASU, he’s turned the institution upside down. What was the magic to create the “most innovative university” in the United States for ten years in a row? The New American University, Realm 5 education, leaning in on AI and Cam Skattebo are all part of secret sauce.
Indiana’s Big School Voucher Breakthrough | WSJ
Indiana has been a leader in school choice going back to the Mitch Daniel’s day and not coincidently, the Hoosier state has shown impressive student achievement results. Indiana keeps pushing with its recent voucher initiative adding another arrow in the quiver to provide parents choices on how to best educate their children.
☀️ Ep. 8 · Dr. Emily Oster: CEO of ParentData & Best-Selling Author | Edreform in 10
Historically, the training manual for being a parent was comprised of wives-tales, imperfect personal experience mommy blogs. With data, Emily Oster is the leader in “Moneyballing Motherhood”. As my friend legendary Silicon Valley Coach Bill Campbell said, “when we have facts, will use facts, when we have opinions, we will use mine”.
Has America Given Up on Children’s Learning? | NYT
Great education for all shouldn’t be a partisan issue. And unfortunately, it’s not….it’s not an issue for either party. Problems create opportunities…the bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. Young politicians understand how existential issue this is for society so help/hope is on the way.
How China Turns Stanford Students Into Spies | The Free Press
Anybody who’s spent any time on “the Farm” knows that a huge part of the student population is Asian. Most people, including me, didn’t know that part of being a Chinese citizen is the obligation to help the Chinese government with “intelligence work”. The Confucius Society was kind of sketchy enough, but actually have an active spy agency in U.S. Schools is creepy.
Public Money, Private Choice: The Components and Critiques of Education Savings Accounts | Bellwether
Bellwether does important research and this report on the state of play for ESA’s in the United States. Currently 22 million K-12 students or roughly 40% have access to some sort of choice program. These programs are in 18 almost all “Red States”. Controversy abounds but what seems indisputable that status quo isn’t working.
Stop Trying to Make Everyone Go to College | The New York Times
I don’t agree with Randi Weingarten on much. And I don’t agree with everything she says in her editorial. But, she is smart and her points about reimagining what we need to do to create a new “North Star” about the objective of education is dead on.
Something Alarming is Happening to the Job Market | The Atlantic
Stunning is the fact that this year’s graduating class from college and graduate programs faces the toughest job market in four decades. Also stunning is the fact that the pay gap between somebody with a college education and high school education stopped 15 years ago. The point being that this trend started before the emergence of AI…the challenges for universities to create an ROI for a student’s time and money are only going to get more pronounced.
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AI Will Change What It Is to Be Human. Are We Ready? | The Free Press
Stunning is the fact that this year’s graduating class from college and graduate programs faces the toughest job market in four decades. Also stunning is the fact that the pay gap between somebody with a college education and high school education stopped 15 years ago. The point being that this trend started before the emergence of AI…the challenges for universities to create an ROI for a student’s time and money are only going to get more pronounced.
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