#Universities

The Gormogons

Gormogons

GP A few thoughts:1. Critical race theory is dumb 2. CRT is a just Marxism with race substituted for class. 3. Attempts to ban it from universities + colleges are

Kara Nortman

karanortman

Crazy stats/predictions about higher ed future:10% students are international students not coming back20% students questioning whether come back30% of college freshman considering deferring20% of colleges likely to go out of

Emma Kennedy

EmmaKEdDev

Cw: suicide I have deep sympathy for the parents of students who killed themselves at university. But Lord Lucas' proposal that universities should be forced to contact suicidal students' parents

Priyamvada Gopal

PriyamvadaGopal

What is really worst about all these high-patriotic outrage spectacles is the sheer degree of illiteracy. What are you singing? What is it saying? Do you believe the words you

David J. Leonard

drdavidjleonard

Several years back, WSU invited a prominent Black scholar to campus to give a talk. Frustrated by the ways such talks did little to empower students nor address campus climate,

smooth skinned anthropology major

lunarplexith

i've been thinking about what abolition vs the university would look like bc I've been feeling like organizing against the university is futile. we're constantly being stalled by university tactics

OHLSGradProgram

OHLSGradPrgmDir

And in ?https://twitter.com/chronicle/status/1246633667637764103 Author @polumechanos makes a number of suggestions around extensions of time, funding, but also asks about expectations and standards. In particular note suggestion that the funding spa

Sarah Moroz

SarahEMoroz

I hear the academic job market is even worse than usual this year, so let me take a minute to tell you about the wonders of "academic adjacent" jobs.This is

twirra fingers.

eenhanas_finest

universities should wait the COVID19 out and resume semester one once the measures are lifted. semester two would then immediately start after that (without recess) until somewhere mid December. we

Professor Fleming

alwaystheself

This is going to be a quick rant, but I just want to register my deep discomfort and displeasure with the fact that almost all "options" for remote teaching at

dan_o_sands

danosands1

I have decided to vote for orange man. I couldn’t have imagined this four years ago. I had never voted for a Republican until 2018, when I split my ballot.

Gene Zubovich

genezubovich

Soon 6 of 9 Supreme Court justices will be Catholic. How did this come about in a country where Catholics make up ~20% of the population? And why are there

SkShivamThakur

skshivamthakur

Hey there, @cuhians Is it just me who isn't getting hold of online classes happening these days ?It sure does scares me that for how long this new NORMAL will

Sarah Knowles

dr_know

My own experience of how academic culture turned toward expectation of overworking: when I started out as a research assistant, flexibility/responsiveness was key - sometimes you might work all evening

Sarah May

Sarah_May1

Since it's #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek let's talk about the specific ableism regarding mental health in academia. There has been a lot of concern about student mental health (see @SarahRoseCrook research for context)

Moebius Stripper

moebius_strip

https://www.straight.com/education/ubc-announces-changes-to-event-bookings-in-response-to-concerns-about-hate-speech Some thoughts on this. I'm on record* as saying that universities are under no obligation to rent space to any yutz who