I am supposed to schedule an exit interview with my dean or associate dean or chair but turns out the dean quit, the associate dean hasn't been hired, and my interim chair's contract is up. So 🤷🏻‍♀️

Really enjoying that admin said students would have 3 years to complete their degrees but apparently they meant a degree at another university. Cool, cool.

I was actively dissuaded from engaging in shared governance by senior faculty in numerous mentoring programs. The thing I was most proud of when I earned tenure was doing it my way

As a species we seem especially good at doing things that are bad for us. Destroying the environment. Putting robots in classrooms. Creating bleak public housing.

Language development and background knowledge are foundational literacy skills, she yelled into the void again.

Here's my unsurprised face. Lying to people about college not being worth it is one more way to reduce access to higher education, which raises incomes and lowers authoritarian tendencies. Keep em dumb and broke is the strategy of deeply unpopular people struggling to stay in power

But guess who got a 15% bonus this year? That's right, not faculty or staff. The guy who already makes a million bucks to manage the university so poorly they cut departments for a bond rating

thebugeater.com/uncategorize... Oh, and the NU Prez got a 15% bonus this year presiding over four department cuts.

Kinda glad I didn't get that job in KS

Don't forget to tip your keeper

So very true. Called the plumber because the hall bathroom initially wouldn't switch between tub and shower. Plumber opened the access panel and was like that's a problem and this is about to come undone. Also, no windows anywhere in this house open and the storm doors don't have screens.

Trump is making an excellent case for DC Statehood

What is something you learned about writing that you wish you could get your doc students to understand? I'll go first: writing is not a linear process

CEHS Dean had such a hard year that he's buying a friend's business and going to live closer to his grandkids. I'm glad we picked that guy to lead us through a crisis.

There are friends and then there are the friends who you fought along side to not have anyone's department eliminated. They send the best memes:

Imagine we lived in a country where we gave babies diapers and didn't shoot children

I'll take worst ideas from late stage capitalism for 800, Alex

I got a little roasted and then toasted at my last AAUP meeting. My favorite comment from someone I've never met before was, didn't you think she'd be taller?

Imagine if they treated faculty like this 🤔

I wouldn't call it ironic unless your definition of irony is duh. The destruction of inclusive education in this country is the goal and has been the goal

Today, I let UNL know they can't fire me because I quit. It was pretty anti-climatic.

This dept was identified for elimination and now they're rolling over on accusations from GOP insiders in the dept. UNK drops textbook, refers faculty member for action after conservative nonprofit’s hostile campus claims share.google/T6yTKR3W6YHe...

The president of the Nebraska State AAUP chapter was included in cuts at a private uni. I don't imagine this is a coincidence.

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I checked one big summer work to do off my list! If I survive this summer, it will be some sort of miracle

Imagine if the Mayo Clinic had a football team. No.need to imagine here, NU's vision is to be an elite hospital with a semi-pro football team. They're not even trying to hide it

Just an external reviewer begging scholars to not make us have to work too hard. Number your shit. Include the journal metrics. We're all doing this during summer breaks

Another artifact. Our former chair used to create these annual departmental summeries from our reviews. Given the size of our unit, abt 15, these numbers always seemed pretty good to me.

This is the end of the 11 steps to publication that I wrote on printer paper and taped up in my office not quite 10 years ago. Somehow, I think I need to frame this collection of sticky notes that once started at stage 1: new ideas and became my scholarly career

For real

Seems accurate

What are public research universities up to? I argue that the sector is splitting into partisan blocs, that universities are investing betting on campus as athletics-entertainment district, and that research emphasis will ease. A sort of de-institutionalization. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

So after I manage to buy this house in the middle of a divorce, while changing jobs, with my parents, guys won't want to date me? Cool

Oh look, it's my unsurprised face! www.the74million.org/article/repo...

Finally solved the mystery of why my department got cut. It's all the binder clips I've hoarded in the last decade 😂

The cherry on top of this shit sundae of a year was having to unexpectedly say goodbye to my Charlie cat. He loved sitting on my lap at breakfast, catnip and quilts. He was the best boi

2nd batch of the 22 EdD cohort and 2 members of the 23 cohort graduated today. I am especially grateful that the 22s trusted me when I said, I've never done this before, but let's try it! It worked and I'm so proud of each of these scholar-practicioners who embodies the EdD is that change the world

Canvas being ransomed during finals week is chef's kiss.

Imagine submitting something to a journal that says there is no research in a particular area to a journal that has published several articles on that topic in the last five years

I have adulted so hard this week and now I have to find home insurance and then start figuring out how to move two house holds, two cars, and four cars half way across the country.

I have spent a lot of time this year thinking about the intersection of education and democracy. And yelling into what feels like a void about the destruction of public education in NE and beyond

Leg 2 of the grand going away tour, a fancy cocktail and a winding conversation about all the things with a colleague/mentor who is also getting out of Dodge.

Stop 1 on the goodbye tour: lunch at Green Gateau in honor of our secretary & grad secretary retirements. Much reminiscing about interview dinners held there. Mine involved frogs legs and being told there was a hot seat by a senior male professor and me dropping into it saying, well it must be mine.

Graduate workers at the University of Illinois Chicago went on strike Monday after a year of negotiations failed to yield a contract. Workers are calling for better health care and pay that’s more on par with local private universities.

I cannot recommend joining AAUP enough. Even if you don't have a union, being a dues paying member has benefits. One of them was being able to put out an SOS to national. We still meet with someone weekly to plan continued pressure on admin to reduce the harm of the tenure massacre of 2025

What they’re relying on in TN and elsewhere by cancelling state exams for voucher kids is a) general frustration at standardized tests b) parents not knowing/caring re different exams. But by exempting the state test while req’ing “something else” they avoid 🍎➡️🍎 comparison