How can we make college teaching more equitable? Join @dgooblar.bsky.social 's One Classroom at a Time Perusall book event to read, discuss, and share insights with fellow educators and author David Gooblar himself! 📅 Nov 10–Dec 7 → perusall.com/engage (@harvardpress.bsky.social)

Starting one week from today, you can read my new book alongside other people who care about equity in higher ed. I'll be chiming in, too. Check it out at: Perusall.com/engage

Good book imo

In today's podcast, @dgooblar.bsky.social joins us to discuss his new book, One Classroom at a Time, which provides strategies faculty can use to improve student success and to reduce equity gaps in student outcomes. teaforteaching.podbean.com/e/one-classr... @cyberthread.bsky.social

"Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

"Contrary to much popular opinion, college is not in the information transfer business; we are in the identity formation business." Great essay. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

I think this is a good time to redirect you to this thing I wrote back in January. The problem isn't reading the syllabus on the first day of class. It's that your syllabus sucks! pedagogyunbound.beehiiv.com/p/in-praise-...

This is such a good book, and I can't recommend it highly enough. A great blend of theory and practice, practical yet motivating....it would look good on your bookshelf, I'm just sayin'

It’s been way too busy around here so I haven’t posted, but…my new book came out last week! It’s called One Classroom at a Time: How Better Teaching Can Make College More Equitable. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Look how happy you could be if you order a copy of my new book!

I've got a new post up at Pedagogy Unbound, previewing the new book. Who is the imaginary student that you design your courses for? pedagogyunbound.beehiiv.com/p/imaginary-...

Excited to see this one out! I got to read an advance copy and it is a great read. Kudos @dgooblar.bsky.social!

I have a new book coming out next month. It's for professors and grad students and administrators who want to make college more equitable. I wrote a thing introducing it here: pedagogyunbound.beehiiv.com/p/a-new-book

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I wrote about my opposition to "integration" of AI in literature classes, but I think it applies to most college classes: pedagogyunbound.beehiiv.com/p/against-ai...

I wrote about Columbia: pedagogyunbound.beehiiv.com/p/columbia-llp

I wrote about the first day of class: pedagogyunbound.beehiiv.com/p/in-praise-...

Sharing this again, ICYMI: the neoliberal university is the devil we know. pedagogyunbound.beehiiv.com/p/the-air-th...

I wrote about the closing of Iowa's Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies Department and what it does and doesn't mean: pedagogyunbound.beehiiv.com/p/the-air-th...

I'm spending time this week with Sheridan Blau's The Literature Workshop and came across "the Goldilocks Assignment."

Once any space becomes less than 40% male, (straight) men tend to cede it entirely while shouting about how it “went woke”. Fascinating read:

Hi Friends, Pedagogy Unbound is returning this year . . . as a newsletter. Every week I’ll be writing about teaching and universities and equity and much else besides. Read and subscribe at pedagogyunbound.beehiiv.com.

i'm moving away from a two column/week pace in favor of a single extended argument. here is this week's.

Columbia’s page regretting its decisions in 1968 bears a banner reflecting some of the decisions it is making now. news.columbia.edu/content/new-...

The first two excerpts are from a February 2023 NYT column. The second two are from a NYT column published yesterday. The same columnist -- Pamela Paul -- wrote both. 14 months apart. Just a mind-blowing lack of self-awareness.

1. defund humanities programs and adjunctify faculty, increase class sizes 2. watch number of majors decline from lack of offerings & the clear message sent by institutions about humanities' value 3. declare "no one is majoring in humanities programs" 4. defund humanities programs again 5. repeat

Gimme Magritte, boys, and free my soul / Ceci n’est pas une rock ‘n’ roll / Green apple face

I have to prep for class, so I don't have time to give this (predictably awful) NYTMag piece the dressing down it deserves, but: anyone who thinks about mandated diversity statements for more than five seconds can see through the fallacy that they have anything to do with "ideological conformity."

entirely possible that i'm using the new nyt opinon blog to push back on stuff that annoys me in national media www.nytimes.com/live/2024/01...

Heard about the Cal State strike and want to know what’s going on? Here’s a primer. JOURNALISTS pls take note. California Faculty Association is librarians, coaches, counselors, and professors. We rep 30k people at 23 campuses serving 500k students. We have called a strike Jan. 22-26. Why? Well …

There are many perfect details in the brilliant A Thousand and One, but I particularly appreciated the use of this Wu Tang rarity: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dTK...

I made it about a minute into the trailer for Rye Lane before I decided I wanted to watch it. I did, and was totally charmed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqcF...

If you knew nothing about Charles Bissell and the Wrens before listening to the new Car Colors song, you would still think: here is someone who has spent *years* just overdubbing guitars. carcolors.bandcamp.com/album/old-de...