apnews.com/article/covi... Governors of Arizona, Illinois, Maine and North Carolina on Friday joined the growing list of Democratic officials who have signed orders intended to ensure most residents can receive COVID-19 vaccines at pharmacies without individual prescriptions.

lot of people out here laboring under the misapprehension that uni is just further high school and there is some higher authority on content than the professor who is a live, working researcher in the field

Anti-DEI groups claim they belong to the public. University leaders say they are faculty members' intellectual property. A look at the copyright debate. www.wunc.org/education/20...

My job now is to go school to school, university to university trying to help them sort through the challenge of teaching in a world with AI and the first thing I recommend to improve the teaching of writing is cut the number of students per instructor in half. No one is going to do that, though.

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

BREAKING: @theassemblync.bsky.social obtained an email in which UNC-Chapel Hill's ex-provost said Chancellor Lee Roberts agreed to the Board of Trustees’ controversial move to delay tenure votes for financial reasons. From me & @themhartman.bsky.social www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." --Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless

I'm entering my 25th year in the job, having taught for 4 years at Yale and 20 at Berkeley. The clearest trendline in my experience (fwiw) is the *dramatically* diminished willingness or capacity of undergrads to read. I used to assign 150 pp./week. Closer to 40 now—and even that is aspirational.

Certainly true a couple weeks ago at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society conference in New York! @eetempleton.bsky.social @kirkcurnutt.bsky.social @pipmcgowan.bsky.social @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social @rosstangedal.bsky.social (& many others!)

This morning, we're seeing a number of road closures due to high water. Please be advised that the following roads are currently impacted: Portions of Old Oxford Rd Moores Mill Rd Roxboro Rd near the Person County Line John Jones Rd Snow Hill Rd

The child in this trustee’s scenario? Faculty. Who submitted their tenure files for consideration in accordance with the terms of their employment. Both sides have a responsibility in that contract, one to submit and one to review. I hope everyone really hears this.

UNC's board has belatedly confirmed faculty's tenure awards, but made some incredibly alarming remarks along the way. On public outcry to the board's silence, one trustee wrote, "It is not good governance to give your child a cookie every time they lay on the floor and scream that they want one."

Some UNC-Chapel Hill faculty say they are concerned about a recent Board of Trustees decision—or, rather, non-decision—on faculty tenure and promotion cases. www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

Something's up (down?) at #UNC. The Bd of Trustees, which has authority over tenure decisions, tabled all at its March mtg & re-tabled all from the College of Arts & Sciences & the non-health professional schools (Law, Biz, etc) at its next mtg. All w/o explanation. #AcademicSky #academicfreedom

Took 115+ years, but the world Forster imagined in “The Machine Stops” is finally upon us www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teach... Though I’m an Americanist, I’ve begun teaching it in most classes

Well yes that’s the plan. Also, not a secret. Also, never been so close to achieving it before. Wealthy, powerful people are generally such because they never, ever let a good crisis pass without breaking their enemies and stealing their stuff.

Catching up on this week’s #VibeCheck & reminded of this quote from firebrand, and fellow Texan, Molly Ivins: “So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it.” open.spotify.com/episode/0U6q...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic “The Great Gatsby” turns 100 today. Revisit a 1926 Profile of the author, who described himself as “one of the most notorious drinkers of the younger generation.”

Happy Gatsby day to those who celebrate! Remarkably relevant for 100 years and counting

The Great Gatsby turns 100 next week and in honor of its centenary I’ve written a piece that says something I’ve been wanting to say for a while now. www.ft.com/content/dd6f...

The 2024 NEH budget: $207M. One F-35 jet: ~$100M. The cost of two jets exceeds the entire NEH budget.

Cognitive dissonance is the humanities being at the same time both a useless waste of time and an imminent threat to the government.

Hoping to get down to see this in May! #gatsby

When F. Scott Fitzgerald hit a carabineri in the nose and ended up in a jail cell in Rome, beaten up, in the winter of 1924. He was trying to finish The Great Gatsby. You'd have gone a little wild, too. Quite a find by Sara Antonelli, via NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/b...

Some good news at NC State! Very excited to welcome our new chancellor. news.ncsu.edu/2025/03/18/k...

Every Thursday from February 13 to April 10, 2025, join the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society as they celebrate 100 years of The Great Gatsby with major American writers reading each chapter. What a novel idea! #BookSky m.youtube.com/watch?v=qSye...

Alex Mitchell and I are delighted to have Michelle E. Moore’s review essay on our edition, The Complete Magazine Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1921-1924 and David Earle’s excellent, Where All Good Flappers Go, included in this volume too! @vincennes.bsky.social

Happy New Year from Dorothy Parker (and me).

Delighted to be a part of this symposium on Jazz Age Illustration tomorrow and thrilled these illustrators are getting their due! #DelArt If you can make it to Delaware while the exhibition is still on (through Jan 26), go! delart.org/event/illust...

Beautiful evening back where it all began #UTAustin

As a North Carolinian prepping to teach my Literature, Art, & Society class this afternoon, finding this helpful right now - thank you @theferocity.bsky.social!

My 5-yo’s final appeal after a weekend of canvassing for her future #vote

My department at NC State is hiring an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies. Details here! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/208...

If today makes you think “life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall,” then the centennial celebration of The Great Gatsby in New York next summer might just be the place for you! Proposals due Nov 15 - see you there!

It would seem my generation is not the first to invent photo Christmas cards. Found this one from my grandmother to her mother from the 1950s! (the little one is my father)

The CFP for Ephemeral Modernisms, BAMS International Conference, 2024, is here! We’ll be at the University of Leeds. We welcome proposals for papers, panels, or for something more innovative if the spirit moves you! wordpress.com/page/bams.ac... @modernistudies.bsky.social