jensplarson.bsky.social
@jensplarson.bsky.social
Enrollment manager, admissions secret shopper, and purveyor of higher education commentary.
I feel like this is an endorsement. I now have a valid reason to go to the mall.
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Good thing it wasn't a$300 (million) donation.
December 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Indeed! The salary and completion outcomes at CCs are not always strong and are definitely less than at 4-year institutions.
December 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
People who do it for the money?
December 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
It's outcomes, not price.
December 4, 2025 at 6:26 AM
The shade-throwing academicians were the best part of this article. Glad it's continuing in the comments.
December 4, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I should start collecting these graphics. It would be like a death mask collection or something.
December 3, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Watch: you'll have add a fourth "l" to your name.

I feel like that's a pretty okay deep cut mayo joke.
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
A year?
November 26, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I mean, can you prove it's not true?

Also, "my mother's friend's friend" sounds like something a Gen Xer would say. hehe
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
This sounds like the type of made up sentence someone would have written on their Myspace page in 2005 if they were trying to write ironic fiction about 2025.
November 26, 2025 at 4:41 AM
"It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for him."
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Does it have a reviewer 2 option?
November 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Total aside:

Sugar Daddy first (1920s), then Sugar Babies (1930s), then Sugar Mama (1960s).

Sugar Daddy was originally called "Papa Sucker."

The Sugar Daddy was invented by a right-wing conspiracy theorist who co-founded the John Birch Society. Non-humorously, Sugar Daddies made MAGA possible.
November 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I did make an enemy the other day when someone told me that they didn't use AI because it's just low paid people in other countries, and I responded, "Like the people who made your clothes and phone and furniture."
November 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We'll find out in 2026, I bet.
October 30, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Cambridge UP is really practicing meiosis with that first sentence, huh?
October 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
If you're Atreu, your finances are Artax and the CSS is the Swamp of Sadness.
October 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
The pain is real, so imagine, for the moment, the financial aid folks who have to help students, families and counselors navigate it thousands of times each year while being blamed for all the suffering the FAFSA causes ...

Be sure to send them an email and a gift card to the local imbibery.
October 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM