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Good morning!

Good puzzle day yesterday—QBABM and a quick 2fer!

SBB: last word was roil.

LB: reclimbed-deponent.

Happy puzzling!

I anticipate little time today, so reading for T4.

Good morning!

QBw2LL for drool(y). LB blimp-prediction.

cathwen everyone varies. I like to get to QB at some point. Sometimes I go for hints early, other times not until the evening. My daily-puzzle-text-friend likes to just get to QB quickly.

Happy solving, however you like to play!

Quote from: Sea_Ice on May 10, 2025, 06:16:27 AM

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Quote from: Minervabird on May 07, 2025, 10:27:48 PMThe USA is going to have a massive brain drain. Consider the UK and Royal Society funding...the grants scheme is worth a look.

I swear, we are truly fucked in this country.

Maybe, if this country does survive in any recognizable form, enough of the electorate will learn, and remember, that you shouldn't elect toddlers to high office any more than you would allow one to play with the garden hose in your home.

Improving science and maths teaching at the K-12 level would be a start.

They won't do that again in this country.  Those who prefer to remain in power learned their lesson in the 1960's, after a brief pro-education push due to the space race, and have been working to dumb-down K-12 ever since.

Hence why the States will no longer be a scientific powerhouse.

Americans and American scientists are coming to the UK as well

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/10/were-in-the-hamptons-of-england-trump-sends-wealthy-americans-fleeing-for-the-cotswolds?CMP=share_btn_url

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Quote from: selecter on May 10, 2025, 05:50:58 AMJohnson & Wales
https://www.highereddive.com/news/johnson-wales-university-91-layoffs-faculty-staff-deficit/747604/

Operating deficit of 34.1 million. Roughly 40% decline in enrollment over 15 years.

I think their model was rapid expansion into short-term opportunities, and they are pulling back as those terms end.

One of their big strenghts is in hospitality and culinary. While there are a lot of jobs in those areas, many of them don't pay anywhere near enough to justify private-college tuition. "Chef schools" are some of the priciest around, yet many graduates risk being cooks at $15 an hour.

The students who sign up for those schools hope to become America's Next Top Chef. The grind of really working in a restaurant is not their goal.

Quote from: Langue_doc on May 10, 2025, 05:18:58 AMNo, the previous Columbia administration had a hands-off approach for the most part, leading to the resignation of the president, federal funding cuts, some of the departments placed under receivership, the recent laying off of 180 employees--the list goes on.

Some of those things are imposed by the Trump administration's as a consequence of their and Bill Ackman's general hostility to Columbia. The claim that they are a response to the protests per se is just a smokescreeen.

But it does seem as if Columbia had no provision for protests at all before. That is the baffling part. What leading university hasn't had regular protests about something on a continuing basis for the last 60 years? It is hard to get a balance among the various principles, but most schools find something that works for them.

No school can, or should, develop rules that prioritize the anti-academic motivations in Project 2025 nor the gripes of a disgruntled billionaire alumnus.

Quote from: selecter on May 10, 2025, 05:50:58 AMJohnson & Wales
https://www.highereddive.com/news/johnson-wales-university-91-layoffs-faculty-staff-deficit/747604/

Operating deficit of 34.1 million. Roughly 40% decline in enrollment over 15 years.

I think their model was rapid expansion into short-term opportunities, and they are pulling back as those terms end.

One of their big strenghts is in hospitality and culinary. While there are a lot of jobs in those areas, many of them don't pay anywhere near enough to justify private-college tuition. "Chef schools" are some of the priciest around, yet many graduates risk being cooks at $15 an hour.

Quote from: Minervabird on May 10, 2025, 05:11:29 AM

Quote from: Sea_Ice on May 10, 2025, 04:23:28 AM

Quote from: evil_physics_witchcraft on May 09, 2025, 04:25:38 PM

Quote from: Minervabird on May 07, 2025, 10:27:48 PMThe USA is going to have a massive brain drain. Consider the UK and Royal Society funding...the grants scheme is worth a look.

I swear, we are truly fucked in this country.

Maybe, if this country does survive in any recognizable form, enough of the electorate will learn, and remember, that you shouldn't elect toddlers to high office any more than you would allow one to play with the garden hose in your home.

Improving science and maths teaching at the K-12 level would be a start.

They won't do that again in this country.  Those who prefer to remain in power learned their lesson in the 1960's, after a brief pro-education push due to the space race, and have been working to dumb-down K-12 ever since.

Quote from: MarathonRunner on May 09, 2025, 06:19:13 PMNo surprise. Multiple Canadian universities are looking to acquire top US researchers, including my uni. I see multiple postings for full profs or associate profs who would go up to full in the next 1-2 years, who are NOT Canadian citizens or Canadian PRs. Most academic positions in Canada have to prioritize citizens or PRs, but I'm seeing more postings for the special chairs/programs that are for non-Canadians.

I'll add that one of my former colleagues has started one of the processes for Canadian citizenship. I don't know how far along she is. But she claims that there's an expedited process for artists as well.