My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂

Great response by Chris to the question “What argument would you make to university leaders that continued investment in their CTLs is strategic and necessary?” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Really curious if schools will see a Selingo bump after his book comes out.

Really creative use of a flexible space classroom for a teaching workshop with new faculty. The concept of “sparkshops” with 15-min sessions in designated areas that are of interest to faculty. They could attend 3 in the time allotted. Excellent post lunch activity. #CFE #FacultyFoundations

At our Center for Faculty Excellence retreat today, Joanna Foland designed a fun and restorative ice breaker with the Rest Deck by #NapMinistry Tricia Hersey. In awe of the creativity of this team and kudos, Joanna!

I’m enjoying newly published book season!!! What’s on my desk now? It’s @geekypedagogy.bsky.social Snafu Edu. The book is rich with practical suggestions and skillful integration of teaching and learning scholarship. Congratulations, Jessamyn!

A beautifully written piece on a terrible time www.science.org/content/arti...

Great leadership insights by @jenheemstra.bsky.social in here. “Navigating turbulence requires constant course correction. We need people who can strategize, communicate and lead with empathy.” www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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

Day 2 at the new job & someone I work with handed me this book that her whole team read and asked me to please read it because “it’s amazing!” @katiepryal.bsky.social you have huge fans here at the Center for Faculty Excellence! (I didn’t let on that we met in a CFE summer writing group years ago!)

In 1997 I was freshly admitted to graduate school and assigned to TA a course. I marched myself to Wilson Library to the Center for Teaching and Learning determined to use every resource I could to improve…

I had so much fun with this one! Thanks for the invite @derekbruff.bsky.social!

I oscillate wildly between being incredibly worried about the state of world affairs and mundane things like being excited to be at my kid’s college orientation trying to imagine normalcy. Thanks for the reprieve today @utaustin.bsky.social

“America’s promise doesn’t happen by accident. It happens because throughout our history ordinary people have called out our country’s contradictions and called on the government to live up to the principles of equality established at our founding.”

Teachers like me are the trained professionals & content specialists whose primary role at the university is to develop citizens, leaders, & human beings who can empathize…and imagine a better tomorrow. My question is: Has the university forgotten its purpose?

Juneteenth is a day of celebration but is also sobering. Too often, we believe that the long arc of history bends towards justice itself.     But WE bend the arc of history. It is up to us to recommit ourselves to fight inequality and ensure justice for all.     Happy Juneteenth, North Carolina!

WHEREAS, the State of North Carolina encourages people to observe Juneteenth as an opportunity to reflect, rejoice, and work together toward a brighter future as we continue to address racial injustices in our society today… @joshsteinnc.bsky.social

Happy Juneteenth! nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...

Hi! Today's the last day to take advantage of 25% off my book if you use the code UNIVERSITY and order through Tertulia. Official release is under 2 weeks away, at which point you'll hear much less about this. Good all around! tertulia.com/book/the-car...

Minute 16. What delightful watch. “It is possible to move discomfort into joy.”

I know this is positioned for student success but I’ve been thinking, speaking and writing more about rekindling joy for faculty. Connections can cultivate that joy in a landscape of burnout. www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

We know connections are important. A survey “found that 35 percent of respondents think their academic success would be most improved by professors getting to know them better,” highlighting the importance of student-professor connections. www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

Or, as @allisonpugh.bsky.social puts it, “being able to have a human attend to your needs has become a luxury good.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/o...

Really good advice here by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social, with a mention to @derekkrissoff.bsky.social: “universities should celebrate the success of their faculty’s books as much as any big research award or sports championship.” www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

I'm a human rights lawyer. If you're exercising your human right to protest on June 14, here are 13 rules I recommend you follow. No paywall. Free access. Please do read and share: www.qasimrashid.com/p/13-rules-t...

PSA for everyone going to protests

Feeling sentimental about wrapping up my position UE, so I had Claude make a graphic summarizing my 10 yrs of work here. It’s of course a bit hokey but also pretty decent. I am so proud of the work I’ve been able to accomplish in undergrad ed supporting student success. New position reveal 7/1/25!

At an engineering conference last year, a colleague introduced me to water coloring. There’s a lot of trial and error but there is a lot of fun in the journey. Ahhh, summertime.

Join me in the NYT 5-day creativity challenge? Not quite summer days yet, but it’s beginning to feel it… www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"We are not the elites the billionaires claim we are. Most professors don’t have tenure. The humanities professoriate don’t even have full time jobs, have been known to sleep in their cars. How did these inconsequential people become enemies of the state?" www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

Holy smokes. A high school senior from my son’s school wrote this for this week’s newsletter and now the commencement tears are flowing. The future looks brilliant. Brava, Ms. Gibson!

“I’m ultimately an introvert who pretends to be an extrovert for work.” 🙃 Pre-ordered @amandalitman.bsky.social book When We’re in Charge. Ready to learn more about how millennials & Gen Zers lead. I’m not either, but I can relate to the idea that leadership will need to be even more human.

Fascinating read… www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

“Teaching is a cornerstone of this university, as evidenced by the mission statement posted on our website, which currently leads to a 404 error page.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/int...

I got my blue chair moment!! Had the great pleasure of getting to give the class of 2025 some advice. Love this shot that our university photographer captured for the piece. www.unc.edu/story/tar-he...

Love a good midday nappuccino with the pups.

This was a remarkable series. Dr. King was my favorite character. Warning: spoiler alerts in piece. time.com/7275814/the-...

I'm going to Wisconsin! Looking forward to the U of WI spring teaching conference this week. My keynote is titled: "A SoTL Reality Check: Three Underrecognized, Underexamined, and Underestimated Truths about Teaching and Learning." www.wisconsin.edu/spring-confe...

Snack and active learning materials recommendations to mail participants? I’m part of a team offering a weeklong online workshop in May. We have a budget to send snacks and materials to participants in advance. Here’s what we’ve started with. Any other suggestions? Thanks!!!

For some time, disabled educational developers have been advocating for more inclusive professional learning opportunities from the POD Network. Tonight, they published an exhaustive, unflinching, and with-receipts account of that fight. engagedlearningcollective.substack.com/p/what-happe...

Ahh, spring time in the south.

"If science is to honour one of its core values — a commitment to the truth wherever it might lead — scientists must stand up when DEI matters" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This one hits close to home. I know people who do this research. It’s far from wasteful. Examining what works and how is the bedrock of improvement, accountability, and transparency. When these are stripped we can’t know or produce effective action. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

It’s spring break, and although I have some meetings, I’ve decided to tackle a few projects on my create to do list. First up: customized 📱 Home Screen. I enlisted my son in the design work. We made this using google slides. Note that a certain book made it onto the shelf! 😉

🧪The entire staff of the Department of Education’s NCES-a vital independent statistical agency - has just been RIFed. The continued erasure of data and evidence allows for the Trump administration to hide the impact of their corruption. #EduSky #Scisky @aeraedresearch.bsky.social @cossa.bsky.social

Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4

Hours late to this, but what an unerring response. And imagine how different things might look if every university, every media organization, every independent corporation, every congressional committee met the current authoritarian overreach with similar clarity about their own rights and power.

TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️ Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!

“I had been rejected for some grants [restricted for minorities and women]. And it was like: Oh, interesting. That’s quite odd. That doesn’t seem fair. But you kind of deal with it and figure out alternative opportunities.” Such as an anti-DEI crusade. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...