You know who fascist fear the most? Teachers, because we teach critical thinking skills, we promote the common good & fascist don’t believe in the common good. I’m a teacher & I’m about to get real loud. I will not stay silent while fascists try to steal the future from our kids

Yes. And still waiting for the Faculty Senate to actually convene the budget committee that was my parting gift to them

Weirdly, we did this and it didn't matter in the slightest. We found budget lines at central admin with millions of dollars and no FTEs. And it didn't matter

Every day is a fresh new dystopian hell in higher ed

Seriously depressing news for Vermont's public education

Described my current state today as my head being full of Styrofoam and sadness.

Gave my old job talk at UNL 10 yrs ago today. Practicing for my colleagues to give my second on Friday elsewhere. Probably gonna cry

The Bugeater has a substack, where we post the very best of our analysis of shared governance, academic, freedom and tenure in Nebraska. Here's an especially good one open.substack.com/pub/thebugea...

Going to add this great piece to my reading list for my intro instructional design course next semester. History, ELA, edtech, play, agency, resistance. What's not to love? Thanks, @charleswlogan.bsky.social, for writing this into the world!

Limiting students’ access to college because they are deemed underprepared does not seem to do them any favors.

Can't wait to see if the Big10 decides to do this

The destruction of public education is everywhere all at once, making it so hard to fight back. If public education, P-12 or post secondary, goes away, it's not coming back and we'll all be poorer for it

In addition the the holographic version of the governor in the AI video if the med center, I also really enjoyed when President Gold told us who he really is by saying "Department of War"

The cashier at Dillard's who sold me tights went off on how stupid the department cuts are and as a two time alum of UNL, she's disgusted. Maybe they'll find out how unpopular attacking the largest uni In the state is

One of my students is finishing up her EdD dissertation on thematic units in 5th grade ELA that paired novels with non fictional texts. Students motivation to read ⬆️, reading scores ⬆️ and science assessment scores ⬆️

This situation is certainly not the fault of the faculty. Administrators and elected officials shut us out of the process and colossally failed our state. The APC hearings and Friday’s meeting testimony do not equal shared governance. All Nebraskans lose with these cuts.

Perhaps the least humans part of yesterdays proceedings was being lectured by the former speak of the NE legislature that we as faculty should have asked them for more money

Incredible to watch the most highly educated people in the state get completely ignored by the board of regents.

They have some nerve saying it hurts. The weekly update from the Montessori school for which I serve as board secretary included the job losses of three parents (and myself). All are friends/colleagues. Board president is a friend.

If you have to publicly be lied to while people blame you for the university and the vote to eliminate your department, do it with all your friends

I always say, you should be in the room where it happens,, but I would like to go back to bed, kthnxbye

I'm trying to decide how I feel today. I have an interview with the conservative paper, want to run over to at least one rally, have to practice remarks. I just feel numb

Somehow this hits close to home with an on campus next week in the South

If you have never had a former dance captain turned teacher educator teach you to dance for a second line for your university's future, you have not lived.

Hoping the BOR gets visited by the ghost of universities yet to come this week.

UNL is in the process of damaging their brand and their faculty

I'm not the only one who thinks the only way forward for property tax relief is fully funding the schools. Here's expert Bruce Baker saying the same thing.

It is finally here! Go time! Please come out and support UNL faculty, students, and staff. Say NO to department cuts! thebugeater.com/uncategorize...

How is it NU cannot find a competent leader for the million a year they are paying? How?

You really never know when you need a retired sculpture professor and a former kindergarten teacher 🤷🏻‍♀️ Looking forward to our Jazz Funeral for UNL on Wednesday

Our BOR is elected. We need to run better people and take these positions as serious, worthy of real campaigns.

The last quarter of this year has been 💩 but I'm grateful for the UNL AAUP chapter and everyone who has stepped up to fight for shared governance and academic freedom

Somehow, I don't think closing programs with 250 graduate students is actually going to solve the financial challenges.

By a vote of 60 to 14, UNL Faculty Senate voter no confidence in the leadership of Rodney Bennett. Well earned, as they say

I guess I should dust off that manuscript on the future if public higher Ed is in civic partnerships. Which I would if I wasn't so busy trying to prevent.y university from shooting itself in the foot. Or the face

For years, I was yelling this in Faculty Senate Exec. I was told we should just be nicer. I went from Cassandra to the Canary in the coal mine. The death of the oldest ed admin dept in the state is just the beginning

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Ssh, no one tell them they are actually playing golf No Real Metrics, Only Vibes - The Bugeater share.google/dItxJ052kBmj...

The most ironic thing I've learned in all of this is how strong my department actually is. We're all kinda humble people. So it was a surprise to learn we rank up there with Ohio State and Wisconsin as a department.

Being thrown out of my community for no reason is the thing that hurts the most. Friends I've made in Senate, AAUP potlucks, my friend who has had the office next door for 9 years

When I said I wanted to be a public scholar, I didn't mean having the press call me every time more bad news from the university hits in boxes nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

Nov 7, 2025: today's cognitive dissonance is 2/2 AERA acceptance and walking my chair to meet with the Exec Leadership to give yet another round of alternatives to firing an entire department of people who are nationally recognized experts

If you're in the top 8% of the higher Ed bond ratings and you are cutting programs that enroll hundreds of students, what exactly are you doing?

We had a financial analysis done in 2019 and again this year. The university is in fine financial shape. The decisions being made, less so. I'm tired of being gaslit and lied to.

States I'm not applying to jobs in, despite a curiously large number of open positions

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

I keep wondering is one giant test and the administrators are going to turn around and say good job, you've won

Totally unprepared to walk into the impressionist gallery at the PMA and burst into tears. It was like walking into a ghost of my former self and paths not taken.