Watch the opening of the Obama Center! www.obama.org/visit/grand-...

My latest Substack, about what college is for. Battle of the Paradigms: What is College for in a Cynical Age? open.substack.com/pub/susandbl...

My latest Substack post, in response to the attempt by Harvard to limit the number of A grades #HigherEd #Assessment #Grades open.substack.com/pub/susandbl...

I participated in an hour-long conversation titled “What is College for Today?”with Nicole Lynn Lewis and Paul LeBlanc, moderated by Anya Kamenetz, and hosted by Frederique Rigoulot, on the Cambridge Forum platform. You can listen to us here! cambridgeforum.org/what-is-coll... #HigherEd

I had a great time talking with two Catholic theologians, Alessandro Rovati and Jason Heron, about ungrading and schoolishness and morality. I absolutely see education as a moral project. You can listen to us (and watch us) here! open.substack.com/pub/catholic...

I wrote a piece on Substack about the closing of Hampshire College. Such a sad end of an era. open.substack.com/pub/susandbl...

"A Priest, a Scientist, and a Humanist Walk into a Classroom"--or to least we had a conversation about learning! (I'm the humanist) With Ji Son, Louis DelFra, and others at the U of Notre Dame, Inst for Educational Initiatives, Center for Educational Research and Action. youtu.be/ec0LbZq4ChA?...

Is pedagogy a moral project? Check out my latest Substack post! susandblum.substack.com/p/is-pedagog...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Here's my latest Substack post, titled "The Polycrisis: How to Face Teaching in 2026." open.substack.com/pub/susandbl... #education #pedagogy #polycrisis

I'm so honored that you are engaging with my book! @cornellupress.bsky.social

I love that I am finally comfortable with all my students, even the ones who have been challenging for me, for reasons that may have only to do with me and not with them. @susandblum.bsky.social growbeyondgrades.org/blog/my-favo...

The world of ought sometimes beckons to the world of is, and change toward practices that work requires a vision of what that would be. @susandblum.bsky.social growbeyondgrades.org/blog/my-favo...

Democracy, Debates, December: On a good day....(My latest Substack post) Democracy requires disagreement, disagreement requires debate, and debate requires practice: the role of education. susandblum.substack.com/p/democracy-...

I had a wonderful conversation with @Trevor Aleo about my latest book, #Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning, and you can listen to us on his podcast, Conceptually Speaking. open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...

I just came across a new review of my book Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning. The reviewer, Jake Mattox, appreciated the wide reading in multiple areas that accompanied my manifesto/tirade/prayer. radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalt...

@hcrichardson.bsky.social writes, "What is left when a system loses the give and take of politics is force." October 19, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

AntiFa = Anti-Fascist. If you’re opposing this, you’re ProFa, = Pro-Fascist, or possibly Anti-Anti-Fascist. I know where I stand. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

1/2 The absurd conclusion of all this GenAI stuff is faculty creating courses entirely w AI; students completing assignments w agentive AI; faculty grading w AI. No humans need be changed in this process. No learning will be required. Easy peasy. #GenerativeAI

My student-led team, schoolstorylab.com, has just rec'd IRB approval for this yr’s project, an inquiry into READING. (We built on @liznorell.bsky.social's survey.) It will take less than 10 min. & is open to ANY STUDENT in ANY COUNTRY, 18 years or older. Plz share widely! forms.gle/yscpm2vubiEH...

We've had evidence of this for ages, right? Frankly this feels like those endless UBI studies where they all demonstrate UBI works but that's not the answer the people in charge want to hear so nothing changes.

The world we desire will not come about unless we dream it first. Here are some thoughts about higher education. #highereducation open.substack.com/pub/susandbl...

www.noemamag.com/the-last-day... “The last days of social media might be the first days of something more human: a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect.”

Release the Epstein Files. They are filled with disgusting depravity but we need to know

This new book, The Ungraded Classroom, edited by Carlo Ricci and Gina Riley (with a foreword by @susandblum), has just been published! It has many examples, beautifully and honestly presented, of ways educators have included ungrading in their classrooms. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQHZKJZ...

If the Democrats wanted to win, they would do whatever they needed to do to convince Mira Nair to do all of their video campaigns

“Both of them.”

FIRE RFK Jr!! WE WANT THE CANCER VACCINE!!! “New mRNA Cancer Vaccine Delivers Stunning Results, Sparks Universal Treatment Hopes” Story below

On the belief that I should not allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good, I got a Pfizer covid vaccine rather than waiting for Novovax. I’m afraid they are going to take them away in Indiana, b/c of our administration’s fealty to the orange menace, so I decided not to wait

An experience at a campus theater production made me think about higher ed as practicing being in society. I know this is not news! But it struck me forcefully, and in a great way. My latest Substack post: open.substack.com/pub/susandbl...

TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.

It’s time to shut down the government. Democrats have weeks to prepare about how to make the case to the people. Watch how Pres Bartlet did it in The West Wing. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

#AICon in #education: we’re not all fans. www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi...

They lie, steal, cheat, boast, destroy, even kill. #TheReckoningWillCome and we’ll clean up our house, de-MAGAify, the way the Germans denazified. Sooner would be good. There will be one defector, then another, and it will accelerate. Gradually, then all at once.

Sickening sycophants

For all the people, especially Democratic leaders, who keep saying, "Trump can't do that! It's illegal!" Authoritarians can do anything they want. They don't care about laws, order, rules, or civility. Once they have power, they flex it. I hope Dems finally understand this.

I stand with #Chicago and the rule of law. I stand with truth. I stand with peace. #EjectTrumpTheTraitor

Just murdering and mutilating some North Korean fisherman to hide our secret bugging mission, no biggie

The labor market is deteriorating! For the first time in four years, the economy lost jobs. Our economy is in the toilet right now and everything in the grocery store is higher priced than it was during the pandemic. This is what losing looks like! Trump’s economy sucks!

@lawrence_odonnell is on fire about the nepobaby charlatan in charge of US health, RFK Jr, who must be fired. He was appointed by the nepobaby in chief. youtu.be/YMjrZjwxgc4?...

The "Mag 7" tech firms comprise 34% of the S&P 500, & we're expected to spend *$3 trillion* by 2028 on AI infrastructure. But large language models are hitting a wall. What if generative AI is delayed or even dead? Tech writer Bryan McMahon says the bubble popping will hurt all of us:

"'Red' and 'blue' states were manufactured to create monocultures out of a multifaceted nation in which most people belong to neither party." -- THEY KNEW (2022)

These 3 things would hwlp: 1. Release the Epstein Files. 2. Fire RFK Jr. 3. Stop illegal gerrymandering.

The trauma suffered by low-paid workers in the Global South who have to look at violent and horrific videos so that ppl in comfortable rooms can ask Generative AI to read an article for them…MUST be part of the convo. It’s been well documented, though not disc’d aylgorith.com/mind-miners-...

Venezuela says the US and Erik Prince have plans to stage an attack on an ExxonMobil off-shore platform as a pretext to invade it…and normally that would be an insane claim but… www.latintimes.com/venezuela-sa...

I just called my reps to Demand the Release of the Epstein Case Files (UPDATED 9/2) — you should too: 5calls.org/issue/releas...

1/2 I’ve had 5 students request accommodations already this semester, w the default assumption being a need for time extension for tests. My classes have no tests. I just got a request to allow the S to record “the lectures.” There are no lectures.