#Universities

Petra Boynton

DrPetra

per the last RTs if you're an academic and students or staff you're supervising request or require reasonable adjustments or accommodations it's not for you to decide what to do.Your

cfryar

seefryar

In full agreement w/all of this. From what I can tell, the US conversation is very slowly but now noticeably moving toward some real talk about fall 2020. The fact

George💥

GeorgeNoble07

10 websites where you can learn anything for free: 1. UdemyUdemy is an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 185000 courses and 49 million students.Although most of the courses

Caltech

Caltech

We find the proposed order by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for the Student and Exchange Visitor Program deeply troubling. If this rule were to take effect it will

Jeffrey Sachs

JeffreyASachs

Let's talk about academic freedom and the police.There are all sorts of third rails in academic discourse. The kinds of topics where if a prof says the wrong thing, his

Kingsley Moghalu

MoghaluKingsley

One day while working for the UN in Switzerland years ago, I called a plumber to fix a broken toilet at home. He arrived, knocked on the door. I opened.

Dr Hannah Dalgleish

astro_hsd

Fantastic seminar this morning on decarbonising academic travel and conferences. A new and notable point for me was the idea that ECRs look up to senior academics (who fly the

Richard Nicholl

rtrnicholl

I think what I misunderstood about the second wave was that people would have learned any lessons from the first Here is a non-exhaustive list of things we did not

Shoutloud For ✪

Shoutloudfor

In May First week, Corona Lockdown time,Probably for the first time in the history of our country @ysjagan made teachers guard wine shopsNot just insulted teacher profession,Attacked moral strength of

Nikki Hessell

NikkiHessell

(Loooong thread) Two recent bad takes on NZ universities both contained the idea that students want learning that is "just in time and just for me/them." It's such a specific

Mary Tracy

MaryTracy

So, Universities will be teaching mostly online this year, and yet I haven't seen a single person explain why on EARTH you couldn't just offer University lectures to everyone for

Simon Marsden

marsden_sj

This seems broadly in line with what many UK universities are planning. I have some questions about it. First, what is the perceived benefit of committing to holding small-group teaching

Akanksha Mehta

AjeebAurat

In the last few months, the often invisibilised care-work that WoC do in academia with students & other WoC colleagues has become even more invisibilised. I don't have energy to

Evie

EvieAspinall_

The fact that we're on the verge of a second lockdown/ sharply increased restrictions and yet University campuses are still reopening is absolutely baffling (and completely reckless). A thread. 1.

Beck Pearse

rebeccapearse

Like most union members I am keen to understand the case for the proposed @NTEUNational and @uniaus jobs protection framework.Some Qs about the metrics for financial loss + mechanisms for

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

With universities freezing hiring, firing faculty, asking underpaid, overworked staff to shoulder more burden, and putting students and professors in untenable situations, now would be a great time to talk