Dan Collier, Ph.D. @Dcollier74 Twitter profile

Last Seen Profiles

@Prodiscius

@RoboCatRC

@hut_lucy

@RyszardPetru

@CalRipkenJr

@JohnsHopkinsCCP

@stw_pdg

@RepAnnWagner

@RwandaMoD

@yyzzmmrr

@CFC_AZ

@Pvinsenok_

@DomContini

@drsudhanshu

@melanielynskey

@samnemzer

@ahnselca

@mlit_yumekaidou

@RpgSpain

@PetersHumble

@_alamxartdump_

@Ayase_Staff

@sakuval46

@nani_press

@ProfsElise

@TheOuter_Spaces

@DAuraWorld

@Hey_its_dora

@Unit_Shawn

@pro__signal

@durumhabercom

@mdbates

@Betterave_Fr

@lmTheReasonWhy

@WakakusaKaoru

@AmluxJay

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

4 months

A lot of mid White dudes who are in upper admin wouldn't have jobs if we hired the most qualified person on merit...

662

315

2K

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

Sorry but this isn't a great trend - if this continues great people who are not yet "as" accomplished (likely due to an interaction with socioeconomic advantages) will simply be discarded from competitive programs. Also there should be no such thing as a "pre-doc".

Pengpeng Xiao

@pengpeng_xiao

1 year

My jaws keep dropping as I go through 70 PhD applicant files. People w/ 2 coauthored papers & an interesting solo writing sample don’t even make it to the top 10 in my pile. The level of knowledge, research experience & passion these kids bring to the table is just remarkable! 🤩

411

66

781

29

105

2K

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

6 months

Many academics are not "that" busy - they just don't have good time management skills or are efficient with their time. In fact the ones who claim to be the busiest (on avg) are amongst the weakest performers.

Scientists Who Lift

@ScientistsLift

6 months

What unpopular academia opinion would get you in this situation?

439

82

575

67

120

2K

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

6 months

Me when two professors get into their decades long beef in conference sessions...

14

51

1K

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

10 months

I'm about 25 interviews in this PSLF project (just me not the rest of my team) and... Let me tell you something brother! In the last 3 years, Borrowers got REAL use to living like the avg Boomer without a decades long college bill to front. It's gonna be an issue.

17

58

543

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

Since moving to Memphis my wife has been pretty much perpetually pregnant with 4 pregnancies We lost the first one at 11 weeks and two more at 6 weeks each. This guy stuck around. Simon D. Collier... Sorry world I've unleashed a spawn of mine onto you.

96

0

502

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 month

Second generation academic also be like: "My dad was just an economist at NYU, it's not like he was at Harvard and won a Nobel, no one is getting jobs because [of that]."

Culture Crave 🍿

@CultureCrave

1 month

Zooey Deschanel on being called a nepo baby "My father is a cinematographer ... no one is getting jobs because [of that]" Her dad is a 6X Oscar nominee and her mother is an actress

2K

5K

141K

14

20

296

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

There are many OUTSTANDING academics with proven CVs who hardly get TT interviews because we favor people who had certain "known" advisors or "top" programs based assumptions they "will" preform vs. the understanding that they have proven it.

KHAN'✨

@khanofkhans11_

1 year

What Academic Opinion will have you like this?

898

991

6K

5

23

271

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

Last year, as I was presenting in an AEFP session, my wife was miscarrying for the 3rd time in a year - she called me right before to tell me. This year, I'm wrapping up as much as possible cause in May - we have a boy coming - which has spurned much reflection/action.

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

And home... Hidan says thanks for returning me you all #petsofAEFP

1

0

19

34

0

207

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

7 months

Recently, a job I REALLY wanted opened - didn't get a screener (still shocked about). A grad school friend of mine got a screener... He congratulated me thinking I did too. I told him I didn't - offered to help him prepare. Don't put your shit on your friends.

Paris Wicker, Ph.D.

@ScholarParis

7 months

This piece is a vulnerable one for me. I struggled with the complexity of wanting the job but also wanting my amazing scholar friend to win too. Thanks to the @chronicle for publishing, and love to @ShawnTheScholar for your friendship 🥰 #phd #faculty

0

60

299

7

8

207

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

11 months

At the end of last semester one of my students passed away suddenly. I'm so happy that Memphis is gonna give them their doctorate posthumously. That's gonna mean a lot to their family. Last semester was pretty rough for a lot of reasons

11

2

188

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

10 months

I'm paid $68k - in 2023 I've had 12 mass media hits, 3 articles, and met with several governmental agencies with some influence on things. I've passed up several $150k+ jobs because I love what I do... But... It's getting harder to pass that up given how underpaid I am.

Dr. Carey Yazeed

@DrCareyYazeed

10 months

What is up with these higher ed salaries?! I was asked to interview for an Asst. Professor position in Florida and the pay is $64k. Another university rep asked me to apply for an Asst. Director of their Multicultural Center. The pay is $47K. Seriously, how are y’all surviving?

425

588

7K

12

8

184

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

Oh you're gonna surprised (given your bad assumptions) to know that 50% of people in nursing homes have college degrees... 40% of truck drivers also have a college degrees (many go CC for cert). They're probably saying, "thanks Dark Brandon for making my truck payments easier."

Batya Ungar-Sargon

@bungarsargon

2 years

I just don't know how these people making $100K a year look people in the face who change seniors' bedpans for a living or drive a truck or work the railroad or stock grocery shelves or deliver their Amazon packages and say, "You, yes you, give me $10K." I just don't get it.

6K

5K

34K

3

39

164

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

8 months

Three #PSLF interviews completed today... Two participants broke down crying thinking about the financial harm they're going to experience coming next month. I'm serious. There's pundits and researchers that talk about this in the abstract... But "they'll be fine" - not be true.

6

32

164

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

9 months

It seems like the SAVE program isn't really working as intended... I've heard from PSLF borrowers I am interviewing on their distress over this. I hope they fix it quickly.

21

29

145

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

I appreciate the support of my Dean - I found out that I was just awarded the 2023 Dean's Summer Research Faculty Fellowship Grant ($7,000). This money will help me get some more RRs out during the summer and let me focus a bit more on my #PSLF research over the summer.

12

0

140

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

9 months

First, fuck you for throwing them under the bus here. Second, fuck you for not supervising them properly - IF this is true. You still failed at YOUR job. I have 6 student employees (and 1 non-student employee) and it is MY responsibility to make sure shit is right.

Jay Van Bavel, PhD

@jayvanbavel

9 months

Here is Gino's argument that her RAs someone prepared the data for analysis and conducted preliminary analysis and she did not run the studies nor handle the data.

19

186

5

9

142

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

Well to solve this problem - cancel all federal debt Re: Private - buy it and cancel it. Thanks for backing Biden into a position he wasn't really a fan of to start but could result in helpful politics in 24.

Louise Seamster

@louise_seamster

1 year

the two plaintiffs in this case are suing to block the whole program bc student debt relief **didn't go far enough** (ie not private debt and not the amount we'd recommended in 2019).

1

20

71

6

34

137

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

Omg! A bucket list item checked off! The Secretary of Education just RTed my work! That's going on the CV for sure Also this work can be found here, at @theSBPC website!

New Analysis Illustrates Massive Benefits of Student Debt Cancellation Across Borrowers’ Lives -...

A team of researchers released the results of a groundbreaking analysis revealing the massive personal benefits that student loan borrowers enjoy as they approach and, in particular, as they achieve...

protectborrowers.org

Secretary Miguel Cardona

@SecCardona

1 year

This program is helping teachers, nurses, firefighters, and others get the relief they have earned & set them up for future success. #PSLF

15

13

53

15

8

135

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

Doing dad shit.

16

0

133

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 month

Just got this. I hate to see this - how student loan debt takes opportunities away from people's kids because they were not affluent enough to afford college in the first place and not doing well enough on the back end. I appreciate peeps following up and trusting me. #PSLF

4

28

132

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

30 days

You all really need to be paying attention to how the TN Legislature is acting.

The Tennessee Holler

@TheTNHoller

30 days

⚡️JUST NOW: “VOTE THEM OUT!” CHAOS ends committee after @WilliamLamberth & @RepAndrewFarmer conspire to refuse a roll call vote on the @MontyFrittsTN32 bill allowing open carry of assault weapons & lowering the age to 18. Republicans making up rules as they go. Not democracy.

96

777

2K

4

77

128

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

5 months

This is why I don't grade. My classes are pass (A) or fail (F). Even doc students get super nervous about this but I keep telling them IF they do what they're supposed to do everything will be fine... Let's focus on learning and growth, not just a few takeaways.

Matt Dowell

@dowellml

5 months

Students “grade grub” because of all kinds of toxic social forces and requirements. It’s a symptom of the badness. I really only feel sadness about it in that, when such occurs for me, I realize a pedagogy that is intended to avoid such things can’t fully combat the toxicity.

4

20

131

8

9

129

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

Hahahahaha... Of course they don't have that data. This whole thing is stuck together with Scotch Tape and Twine.

2

20

125

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

9 months

This week I talked to borrowers who used the pause to 1. Buy a much needed newer car 2. Have another baby 3. Buy a house 4. Buy a condo 5. Do $25k in dental work 6. Pay off credit cards they were living on before COVID.

4

16

117

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

@Dr_ConstanceL Ditto Who has time pre-PhD to write like they have a PhD? Generally, ain't peeps from working class families, we're off finding jobs to pay student loans down as we try to get into doctoral programs. Same with pre-docs not explicitly masters degree, who has time for "extra"?

3

5

116

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

10 months

Response from participant on SCOTUS ruling: "I'm tired of being told to vote. We voted, we won, and we keep getting not a fucking thing. Congress didn't help, Biden sort of tried to - but also that wasn't enough. What will it take? My family and I are just tired."

11

26

115

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

Achievement unlocked

9

0

114

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

10 months

@DrSZuckerman I really think policymakers and commentators underestimate the 1) financial pain that will exist for many and 2) the absolute anger that exists right now.

3

10

107

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

Hahaha so true

1

9

101

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 months

This seems not right

The Tennessee Holler

@TheTNHoller

2 months

⚡️JUST NOW: “Tennessee House Republicans passed @GinoBulso ’s (unconstitutional) legislation to block state courts from hearing challenges to any rules or policies the General Assembly passes…” Checks & balances no longer a thing in Tennessee. 🤷🏻 🫤

74

696

1K

3

44

100

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

6 years

Tonight outside of Sangren at @WesternMichU . Pretty evening

2

8

98

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

Aww, well that's a nice spot of good news. I appreciate my dean for making, what I believe, to be a good decision. :)

10

1

96

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

Family tornado photo... May as well make the best of it. The humans are keeping the non-humans calm. :)

11

0

91

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

🚨🧵Call for Participation in Research. We're looking for peeps enrolled in #PublicServiceLoanForgiveness or have you achieved loan forgiveness under #PSLF to engage in a survey and regarding elements of your subjective well-being (e.g. stress). (1)

12

96

89

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

I mean if you go talk to people and speak their language - they're gonna forge a connection. It ain't that hard. You gotta get peeps into your proposed "in-group" - and that takes effort. The problem is that many political figures can only talk to selected people.

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

1 year

It's striking how successful John Fetterman was in making big inroads in Trump country. I've got new data showing him cutting into GOP margins in working class, very white suburbs and rural/small town areas. The data shows the "blue wall" getting rebuilt:

172

1K

6K

7

14

86

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

Also, the people that would tell you that college isn't worth it... Are the people spending $750,000 to get their kids into the most elite colleges. Or bribing people hundreds of thousands of dollars to get into pretty dang good colleges.

Akhil Vohra

@asv141

1 year

Food: $200 Data: $150 Rent: $2000 College Consultants: $750,000 Someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. My family is dying.

3

6

82

3

15

89

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

I can't think of a better RT for this meme.

Sen. Donnie Rifle, I-FL

@SteakFrankhouse

1 year

This shit is so funny

631

2K

31K

0

22

88

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

The way we classify employees at colleges and campuses intentionally locks them out of certain opportunities. For example, research staff cannot be PIs on grants, nor can teaching-focused faculty. Way to deny people opportunities for possible career advancement.

8

15

84

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

Ah thanks you all. And thanks to @theSBPC for their continued support.

UofM College of Education

@umeducation

1 year

Congrats to Dr. Dan Collier, LEAD, who secured a grant from the Shared Ascent Fund & conducted a study on the benefits that student loan borrowers enjoy as they achieve debt cancellation through Public Service Loan Forgiveness. Read more @Dcollier74

2

0

14

9

4

85

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

It's announced: #Cancelation : Again $10k wipes debt for 30% of borrowers and wipes it or halves it for 51% of borrowers - many will be CC grads and college stop outs (people who NEED help). This is a WIN, even if it's not the desired outcome for many. A thread....

President Biden

@POTUS

2 years

In keeping with my campaign promise, my Administration is announcing a plan to give working and middle class families breathing room as they prepare to resume federal student loan payments in January 2023. I'll have more details this afternoon.

20K

33K

143K

3

30

85

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

A trend that's been bothering me... 4-year institutions seem to be enrolling more students who in the past would reject - to bolster enrollment. At surface, I've no issue with this. Now, they're doing it without providing these students additional academic or $ support...

8

7

80

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

When you send a manuscript off but there's a typo in the abstract

2

7

79

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

If you're on a diss committee and on the morning of decide you want off - you're trash. I wont ever forget the harm you've caused students. You signed off on the project at the proposal - binding YOU and the student to expectations. You had WEEKS to decide it wasn't for you.

12

5

78

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

6 months

I'm cancelling my ASHE plans. Was looking forward to seeing peeps but my grandpa ain't doing great and while he's got energy/time, he's gonna meet his great grandson. Providing him happiness is more important. Co-authors and friends beer on me another time. Have fun you all.

12

0

78

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

This is outstanding advice

1

10

75

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

John Oliver tonight summarizes exactly why I'll always be against the death penalty... Always.

2

8

73

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 month

Yesterday at 6:30 PM my mom went in for a lung transplant - to which the surgery was successful! She's been needing this for a while and once she was put on the list officially it took 4 days. I'm thankful to the fine doctors at Loyola. Now to rehab.

6

0

76

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

8 months

Boom! Acceptance day at Educational Policy @DoctorRaq , @FeleciaElana , @DMorganPhD , and @FitzEdPolicy . We used @SHEEOed data on state boards' attributes released about 2 years ago to update SEM models the RIHE piece where my team modeled in-person classes for Fall 2020 (1)

5

3

72

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

6 months

I'm beginning to believe the most frustrating part of being a professor is that we work in large organizations with lots of bureaucracy and we're expected to know and remember hundreds of policies for students, grants, general employment, travel, and so on.

8

72

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

7 months

Btw this is feedback I gave on a recent rejection. Notice no snark, to the point, and then encouraging at the end. You get to choose how you want to communicate to authors. You don't have to be mean.

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

7 months

Dear Editors.... this is on you for allowing this comment to slip by. Dear Reviewers, you can say this without being a complete dick about it. It's a choice to be an asshole like this. You could reframe it positively for better feedback and to help the individuals.

9

0

66

6

4

72

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

11 months

I REALLY love doing interviews for qualitative research. I sorta hate the rest of it but I really love talking to people and hearing about their lives, beliefs, and feelings - and I am often good at getting people to talk to me. Just wished I liked the rest of it as much.

8

0

69

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

@VanCarlito2003 @tressiemcphd Either they send me that invite, or I don't show up to that meeting. If my phone doesn't tell me to be somewhere, I ain't there. And my response is always, "I asked you to send me that invite, there wasn't one."

3

1

70

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

10 months

Ok question for my #qualitative focused researcher friends. It seems like I'm gonna have a few hundred interviews for one of my projects (seriously) - at about an hour per interview. How do you all keep track of these many interviews? What software besides Nvivo do you use?

52

11

71

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

@Tom_Scott_Crim @gilmored85 I keep telling people here in Memphis it's more dangerous than Chicago... They hardly ever believe me.

3

0

66

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

3 months

I'm chairing Round 2 of our TT search. Found an applicant didn't upload their CV but uploaded two cover letters. Instead of making shitty assumptions, cause these are stressful times, I just told them to tell HR to let that person upload the CV proper. No big deal.

3

1

68

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

5 days

Someone is about to be hooded!

1

2

69

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

8 months

Oh do I have a lot of qualitative data on how long wait times, misinformation, and making multiple calls to get different information really messes with people's trust in the system AND spikes up their mental distress.

Mike Pierce

@millennial_debt

8 months

The story from Thursday isn't about long wait times-- they were long, but hardly aberrant. Borrowers are being hurt because bad customer service undermines the byzantine programs that make up the student loan safety net. If we cannot invoke our rights, do those rights exist?

1

9

79

0

17

67

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

7 years

#wwekalamazoo @TheDeanAmbrose and @BaronCorbinWWE ... Too bad Corbin lost #RootingfortheHeel

0

15

57

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

9 months

I broke my rule and stupidly told somebody who came up to pet my dog what I do for a living when they asked. This person then tried to tell me How lower SES individuals don't need to be in debt and all they need to do is work harder. I went off on her hard, without remorse.

6

0

65

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

A glorious time to be a child with walkman!

9

2

64

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

7 months

Dear Editors.... this is on you for allowing this comment to slip by. Dear Reviewers, you can say this without being a complete dick about it. It's a choice to be an asshole like this. You could reframe it positively for better feedback and to help the individuals.

Ziqian Xia

@Ziqian_Xia

7 months

I am truly hurt by a comment received from a reviewer today, and it even makes me wonder if I should continue to seek PhD programs...

304

70

1K

9

0

66

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

🚨 🚨 My #PSLF work with @FitzEdPolicy sponsored by the @theSBPC is available to read. This is the initial analysis in a wider mixed methods study - it's also one of the first of it's kind because we finally have available data on Forgiven borrowers.

New Analysis Illustrates Massive Benefits of Student Debt Cancellation Across Borrowers’ Lives -...

A team of researchers released the results of a groundbreaking analysis revealing the massive personal benefits that student loan borrowers enjoy as they approach and, in particular, as they achieve...

protectborrowers.org

4

28

65

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

3 months

Pedagogy Best practices Growth Mindset Paradigm Scaffolding Epistemology

Science girl

@gunsnrosesgirl3

3 months

612

22

312

19

8

64

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

We are back in our natural habitat, on a Great Lake in the North.

1

63

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

6 months

Oh... I just got the best news! A former student of mine got a good job offer! I am so happy for them.

1

0

64

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

As I've pointed out before... a fair amount of truck drivers have college-level certification or degrees and have also benefited from the pause - likely making it easier to pay their trucks off btw. Also, they got kids... So... Yeah.

Ayelet Sheffey

@arsheffey

1 year

Ahead of oral arguments on Biden's student-debt relief, GOP lawmakers reintroduce their bill to end the student-loan payment pause. "There is no support for the man who didn’t go to college but is paying off a work truck," @SenBillCassidy says.

7

9

27

2

18

62

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

11 months

🚨🚨New Publication Alert - A promise kept for whom? College access, success, and the limits of race-neutral tuition-free programs. It is a pleasure to be accepted in @JDHEtweets again, the editors of this journal at top tier. Now Promo Time! (1)

3

19

61

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

@mwkraus Screw them... Keep doing you and make Yale feel this eventually.

0

63

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

6 months

If we're going to have student loans, and it's very likely we will continue to do so, they should all be subsidized until people are out of college, period. No student should wake up more indebted the next day just for being in college.

5

6

63

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

Opens Twitter, sees like 6 bad takes on loan cancelation and HE "finance" - lacking any concept of HE finance. Laughs... Closes Twitter to go to Starbucks because I just can't and I got actual things to do for my students in an actual HE finance course.

6

62

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

@JHWeissmann What about people named "Jeff"? Haha

2

0

62

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

6 months

Meeting great grandpa for the first time.

2

0

60

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

I've been avoiding this topic in my Leadership in Education course but it seems I'll have to put in a violence on campus and response management week. It's something that I feel my students need to talk about and be aware of if we're training them to be HE leaders.

8

5

61

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

7 months

People who say we have hard jobs... don't realize the massive benefits that come with them. My dad was a truck driver and mechanic, my mom a first responder... They could rarely just fuck off for the day. I just advised a student on their dissertation, sitting here like this.

5

0

60

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

4 months

I may know of at least one who writes about student loans and equity.

2

9

59

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

8 months

Can someone point to me the exact moment in time where people by in large started to believe that those with student loan debt are the "rich people?" I'm serious - the amount of times I have to correct this shit on the daily is just maddening.

8

10

59

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

Year 2 of Memphis employment as a TT professor begins.

1

0

58

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

Keeps just making the case for cancellation for those with advanced degrees. Also wait for the next "the pause isn't right or fair because people with advanced degrees are the 'most' benefited tweet.

5

17

57

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

Yea I'm dreading the call I have to make because it's just gonna waste my day trying to get a hold of them. That's why @POTUS should extend TEPSLF - MOHELA is either intentionally or unintentionally incapable of handing this right now.

The Debt Collective 🟥

@StrikeDebt

2 years

Longer than an 8 hour shift on hold with @MOHELA to verify they received PSLF paperwork The stakes are too high if they fuck this up. The paperwork was sent Sept 15. Every past call we’ve made MOHELA says they show no record of receiving it in their system

7

27

100

5

16

56

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

Honestly... Don't be a professor if you're gonna be like this. This is obviously bad decision-making and just makes us all look like assholes.

Ember McCoy

@embermc

1 year

Hearing that some UM profs are requiring students to get stamps from funeral directors in order to get an excused absence for attending the memorial services of their friends who were murdered at MSU this week. Others won’t offer extensions on papers/tests. This is…alarming.

17

30

446

3

8

58

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

Hidan is doing this as well as I could ask any dog. He had to make sure everything was ok last night. Watched us like a hawk.

3

0

57

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

This makes my heart warm, like hugging a young puppy.

3

53

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

I don't bust out my deviled eggs often but when I do...

5

0

57

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

Well, we left the house and there was a lot of nasty damage. Some buildings are just gone, trees all over down - they're still searching for people or rescuing them from buildings. We got pretty damn lucky

4

0

55

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

MOHELA - we got your certified mail. However your signature was missing. Me - the fuck? I literally signed it at the post office. This is going awesomely.

10

9

55

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

Well... peeps facing the most uncertainty in PSLF (waiting on forgiveness decision) also are the most distressed - and have the high rates of suicidal ideation. What's gonna happen when people cant access call centers + remain uncertain about repayment generally?

Jillian Berman

@JillianBerman

1 year

With the return of student loan payments looming, call centers at 2 major servicers will be closed on Saturdays. That's just 1 of many factors that have advocates worried that if payments resume as scheduled later this year "we are headed into a disaster."

14

59

117

7

25

56

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

6 months

I want to personally thank the Paul E. Patton Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center for taking good care of my grandpa during this time. I know he's owed it for his service but the facility seems nice and the staff have all been caring people - whom he seems to like.

5

0

55

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

If you're gonna say college ain't for everyone, more apprenticeships needed - you best be willing to have your kids in them too. If not, "who" do you mean not "everyone." (1)

Opinion | Is College Worth It? Not for Everyone

A degree should signify an education, not only a credential.

www.wsj.com

2

7

54

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

10 months

Please, stop saying Biden canceled debt today. It allows some to grab onto a toxic narrative, and twist the policy. They've credited peep for past payments that should have counted for IDR but did not. That's different than the common understanding of canceling.

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

10 months

Misleading headline but a good move. They've credited people for the payment they made but for one reason or another didn't count towards their #IDR payments - but should have. The GAO had a recent report on this and making it right for IDR borrowers.

1

5

8

1

21

53

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

6 years

#WWEKalamazoo @WWEAsuka @SashaBanksWWE

1

20

45

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

6 months

^or they're doing too much service, and that's their own damn fault. Learn to say yes... Selectively.

3

1

51

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

First those are quality windows they're under a lot of pressure... Also to the guy who installed them - he needs more money.

Dixie Whatley

@bothcoasts

2 years

We live on the beach in Naples, Florida. We stayed through the Hurricane Ian. Thought I'd share a rather notable photo from the experience...

8K

39K

349K

3

0

53

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

Oh wow... This was my great grandmother's house in Whitesburg, KY - the KY River is just behind the house (it was always shallow). I feel for the current owners but this is nuts. I spent my summers here as a child. I just can't imagine.

1

8

50

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

1 year

Since moving to TN - I've not found a good social life. Peeps who would be my friends here generally aren't down there because "doctor." I don't really fit in well with academics in many spaces. It's good to be back home with peeps and enjoying life a bit.

1

0

53

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

8 months

Got a new middle monitor

4

0

53

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

At WMU, an administrator - who recently left (not the Provost) - tell me what I could and could not say on social media about my research. I partly complied - this person low-key threatened to start ruining community relationships I was starting to build - and I was a post-doc.

12

5

51

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 months

Boom! And now we have a Dr. Windom! My second doctoral student at Memphis. Gonna have a Dr. Rose here later in the week too!

2

0

52

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 months

For the people saying that PPP loans were intended to be forgiven... so are student loans, see for example: Public Service Loan Forgiveness REPAYE PAY Income Driven Repayment You know the programs that the administration is actually canceling loans through.

Ashley Hinson

@RepAshleyHinson

2 months

If you take out a loan, you pay it back. There’s no such thing as “canceling” student loan debt.

5K

897

3K

5

12

52

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

@Dcollier74

2 years

Grant... Submitted...

6

0

51