Meet me at @lkpwrites.bsky.social. Failed musician, better journalist covering #education for grownups (aka #highered) @WBEZ & @opencampusmedia.
Oak Park, IL
Joined October 2013
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It’s been incredible to work with @LAPhilip on this.
IL students are exposed to recruiting practices that would break federal law if the school did them itself, but instead private equity-owned Risepoint is exploiting a loophole.
Risepoint may be breaking IL state laws anyway.
.@thisisUIC and @UISedu are paying a for-profit company for each student it recruits to online courses — a practice that would be illegal if done by the universities’ admissions offices, a @WBEZ investigation found.
@opencampusmedia #illinois #college wbez.org/education/2025/10/0…
Lisa Kurian Philip retweeted
Scientists' work is "without borders, because we’re all struggling with the same things: hunger, medical care, global warming." @LAPhilip reports on how the decline in international students is affecting Chicago colleges wbez.org/education/2025/10/1…
Lisa Kurian Philip retweeted
I’ve photographed them all, and nothing compares to these celestial children! My lens is rejoicing!
FOR TOO long, Black children with Down syndrome (Trisomy 21) have been invisible, absent from mainstream representation; we must change this narrative forever.
.@thisisUIC and @UISedu are paying a for-profit company for each student it recruits to online courses — a practice that would be illegal if done by the universities’ admissions offices, a @WBEZ investigation found.
@opencampusmedia #illinois #college wbez.org/education/2025/10/0…
“If you're going to pay [recruiters] per student, that person then has the incentive to do whatever they can to get you to enroll...They will tell you whatever they need to tell you. They will promise you whatever needs to be promised.” @stephmhall
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Lisa Kurian Philip retweeted
What is it like serving on a board of education? Here are 16 quotes from Chicago Public Schools’ 21-member school board that sum up the unpaid job: ckbe.at/CPSBoardOfEdQuotes20…
Meet the "Womb Service," a group of @DePaulU students who supply birth control to classmates. The Catholic school has long banned the distribution of contraceptives on campus. Womb Service volunteers say the policy is dangerous.
@WBEZ @opencampusmedia
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Lisa Kurian Philip retweeted
This is the kind of story where the Sun-Times shines. What a picture.
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Lisa Kurian Philip retweeted
🇺🇸 Visa Terminations Jolt Illinois Colleges
▫“The bar keeps moving, as far as who’s at risk,” says one staffer at the University of Illinois Chicago
▫@LAPhilip
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#frontpagestoday #USA @Suntimes 🇺🇸
Lisa Kurian Philip retweeted
Chi Bd member Jitu Brown says he went to Springfield with seven other board members to insist that Chicago Public Schools are equitably funded. He says they plan to go down every two weeks.
.@NorthwesternU student: "I would like to see from my academic institution ... some resistance and some strength in the face of … what is starting as an attack on pro-Palestine speech, but is going to continue as an attack on academia as a whole.”
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Talk about whiplash. In January I wrote this story👇 about a PhD student's experiences with racial discrimination as a Black woman at @UChicago. Today UChicago is under federal investigation relating to supposed preferential treatment of Black students.
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So glad the Baltimore Banner has a higher ed reporter! Also, this lead photo is beautiful.
Maryland legislators are currently deciding whether to cut a state scholarship program by 50% for the second year in a row. The financial impacts would be “devastating,” college presidents told me. Some had to layoff workers to deal with last year’s cuts:
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Lisa Kurian Philip retweeted
I've seen screenshots of this training. It's absurd. It equates @jvplive with the KKK, claims that you cannot possibly be anti-Zionist without being antisemitic and generally ignores the history of the whole region.
Professor @eshurd calls the new @NorthwesternU training on antisemitism "unscholarly": "This is a university that values debate and discussion, not political propaganda.”
@WBEZ @opencampusmedia
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Professor @eshurd calls the new @NorthwesternU training on antisemitism "unscholarly": "This is a university that values debate and discussion, not political propaganda.”
@WBEZ @opencampusmedia
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"You can’t achieve the goal of robust and open inquiry ... if you’re not creating environments that are free from racial bias, stigma, stereotypes and harassment."
@JPYGold on the legality of DEI and what universities should be doing in this moment:
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THIS DETAIL: "Patel also sells K$H wine, featuring Trump’s mugshot on the label, with prices ranging from $109 to $344.99 per bottle; $10 from the sale of each bottle is donated to the Kash Foundation."
The Senate has advanced Kash Patel's nomination to head the FBI. We break down his financial history, his ties to President Trump and how that background might impact his job. opensecrets.org/news/2025/02…
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Few graphics convey the civilian toll of the so-called “War on Terror” better than this one.
At least 38 million people have been forcibly displaced in the post-9/11 wars. This is roughly equivalent to the population of Canada. [1/3]
Students and faculty fought to establish cultural centers @thisisUIC and at campuses across #Illinois, to provide spaces for students to celebrate one another’s differences.
Under the Trump administration, they worry these spaces will be taken away.
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Big thanks to @szarlotka for tipping me off to this legislation, and for her photos too.
@WBEZ @opencampusmedia #college
Illinois weighs opening state financial aid to students in prison wbez.org/education/2025/02/1…
