Hello beautiful. 👀 #SnafuEdu @oupress.bsky.social @derekkrissoff.bsky.social @michellemillerphd.bsky.social @jamesmlang.bsky.social @liznorell.bsky.social @cjdenial.bsky.social @cyndik.bsky.social @josheyler.bsky.social @thomasjtobin.bsky.social @profcannibal.bsky.social

💙📚🤎 Highlighting Black Authors that I love in February #BookSky #BlackBookSky Ijeoma Oluo So You Want To Talk About Race Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America Both must-reads on your anti-racism journey. #NonFiction #AntiRacism #Politics #Sociology #Education 💡📚

www.oupress.com/978080619469... This book is getting lots of love and should get lots more! It is truly so good and so needed at this point in time. Thank you @liznorell.bsky.social for providing us with a way to think about where we are right now and how to move forward.

It's amazing* how so many people who should know better have just cast aside any pretense of critical thinking and jumped headfirst onto the hype wagon. *it's not, I guess, but still

Online Degrees Out of Reach Fewer than half of students at the largest nonprofit online institutions earn a degree after eight years. Is it an unfortunate reality or a cry for accountability? #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4260aMV

I just wrote a long thread about being treated as unreliable in the professional sphere; this describes the horrific way victims are discredited and dismissed in campus rape. Very different subjects/seriousness, but it's the same problem of not being treated as credible/ competent when you speak up.

Part of fighting back is being both intentional, accurate, and forceful with our language. So anti-woke, anti-DEI efforts and activists? Especially when those efforts result in demonstrably lower numbers of qualified Black people the ranks? Start calling these folks pro-segregation.

For my last Substack post of the year: a Festivus-style “airing of grievances” and an experiment with podcasting! In this episode, @josheyler.bsky.social, @liznorell.bsky.social, and I share all the ways grades have let us down over the past year. emilypittsdonahoe.substack.com/p/an-airing-...

i am pretty confident that it will soon become the law that any effort to remedy racial inequality, private or public, will be illegal anti-white discrimination. fairness is, of course, when our institutions are lily white and male

I was in a workshop last week where, with a straight face, the speaker put up a slide listing all the recent “innovations” that were supposed to revolutionize edu and said, “AI will be different! This time, it will work!” My eyes almost rolled out of my head.

"The list names an Army officer who traveled to 14 historically Black colleges to expand recruitment" Since these people are literally using "woke" to mean "entertained the thought of hiring a Black person," opposition to DEI, affirmative action, etc. should be understood as support for segregation

What does it mean to write a book as a contingent scholar? It means to do something that's already hard enough on its own, but also to do it without the (admittedly eroding) supports of full-time tenure-track employment--time, funding, library access, and a steady job. Recognize this work. 🗃️

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There are a lot of problems that beset academia. This 👇 is one of the worst. How can we defend ourselves from the Rufos and DeSantises of the world when many of us can't even respect our colleagues enough to help equitably distribute labor?

The youth are not just going to automatically save the world if they are drowning in disinformation

In today's your Tea for Teaching podcast, Constanza Bartholomae and Terri Hasseler join us to discuss some of their professional development activities and how they focus on creativity, community, and kindness in their roles. teaforteaching.podbean.com/e/educationa... @cyberthread.bsky.social

I am pinch-me-I-must-be-dreaming excited to join the Syracuse University Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence! My new position as Director begins on August 1.

yeah, also, the *white* part of white rural resentment cannot be overstated. most of my extended family is rural black folks and they aren't reactionaries!

This is deeply unsettling. Oklahoma Republicans are signaling it's OK to attack and even murder queer people. I'm very afraid of what's going to come next.

To what extent is education reform a cover for economic inequality? Join professor Neil Kraus on the Future Trends Forum this Thursday to explore his provocative ideas: shindig.com/login/event/... #FTTE

Such an outstanding episode. Truly appreciate the consistently excellent Tea for Teaching pod.

The thing about Joe Biden being an elderly man with a poor memory is that his likely opponent is an elderly man with a poor memory who has been indicted for 91 felonies and found liable for rape

I was grateful to share some of my own path in this piece with Joshua Kim for his @insidehighered.bsky.social column today. Sharing our failures benefits everyone -- but most especially our students, who too often assume we've had an easy go of it. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

This was such fun and always an honor to be asked to be on the amazing Tea for Teaching. Thank you John and Rebecca:)

you don't have a physics and math major because of the numbers of majors, you have them because without physics and math majors you don't have a university.

They aren't reporting on the destruction of higher ed, they're actively participating in it.

At the end of this story on the athletes who were lured to New College is a conservative Christian who started taking sociology and … is now less conservative. /1 (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2024/01/31/m...

Once again, I am looking for your professional conundrums. If you have one, email me at [email protected]! Here is last week's column: www.nytimes.com/2024/01/20/b...