Journalist – Historian – Speaker
Hey @rutgersu check this prof’s email to student asking to take off #EidAlAdha (student’s name removed upon request) pic.twitter.com/hMuZx1SyMB — Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed) September 23, 2015 The above tweet details a snotty response to a student asking for an excused absence for Eid Al Adha. It’s rude. It’s arrogant. It’s demeaning. It implies that the …
(Reposted from 9/9/15) Jesse Stommel is leaving a tenure-track job at Wisconsin to go take a job as a faculty development director at the University of Mary Washingon. He wrote a powerful blog post about the descision, which you should read. I want to highlight just one point, out of the many, skipping the issue …
Here’s a great piece from Conditionally Accepted about the way being on the tenure-track makes us conservative. It’s wide-ranging and important, thinking about identity and many related issues. Read it all. Here’s the bit that especially dovetails with my interests on public writing, activism, and the academy [my emphasis]: More generally, I bear the burden …
In my recent CNN piece, I wrote about my university with both pride and realism. We are a relatively low-cost private school that does some things exceptionally well. Those things that we do well cost money, though. I wrote: The Pell Institute’s publication “Moving Beyond Access: College Success For Low-Income, First-Generation Students” lists advising, tutoring, mentoring, …
NOTE – This piece has been updated to remove a sentence in which I attributed ideas to Goldrick-Rab which she doesn’t hold. I regret the error. Yesterday I wrote a new piece for CNN, offering my take on the expanding debate about the cost of college. Today, Bernie Sanders is going to file a 70 …
To institutions: if you want the reputational currency of public scholars you’d better have institutional processes & courage to go with it — Tressie Mc, PhD (@tressiemcphd) May 12, 2015 Almost a year ago, I wrote about Steven Salaita being un-hired by the University of Illinois. I argued: I come to this topic not as …
Image: The word “Live” in red stamped over the word “tweet.” This weekend around three thousand medievalists – scholars and fans alike – will descend on the 50th Annual International Medieval Congress, a massive, interdisciplinary and relatively egalitarian academic gathering. It features a whopping 567 sessions, an outstanding book exhibit with new and used books …
Larry Backer is a named law professor at Penn State and a former chair of the Faculty Senate. These credentials matter, because when he attacks the faux system of shared governance at Penn State, as he does in this blog post, it might get taken seriously. The piece is a long discussion of a recent …
The May edition of The Atlantic has a long article on the first batch of students to go to StarbucksU (I wrote about it for CNN last May, troubled by the notion of employment-based education). Overall, it’s a solid article in terms of reporting and structure. It tells the stories of people struggling to finish college. …
I am a professor at a small Catholic university on the edge of Chicago. We have an extremely diverse population of students, a teaching-centered institution, a social justice mission, and I go to work feeling extremely lucky in many ways. But especially today. Today we are holding our Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Investigations (URSCI) …