One of the best college classes I took was essentially this as a seminar. We all came in having looked through the major nationals, the major local daily, and the school newspaper…then we hashed out their choices in coverage/framing/sourcing
Hey, Bluesky: do you have a class policy for LLMs like ChatGPT? Would you be willing to share with my department? We are interested in personal policies, departmental policies, and/or school-wide policies!
Hey, Bluesky: do you have a class policy for LLMs like ChatGPT? Would you be willing to share with my department? We are interested in personal policies, departmental policies, and/or school-wide policies!
Read this and listen to people from Appalachia on how to fight back against grifters like JD Vance
In the new book “Appalachian Reckoning,” dozens of mountain voices combine to talk back to J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” arguments. Today, an exclusive story from its co-editor and a powerful essay...
One thing no one told me about becoming a parent is that I would experience catharsis in the classical sense every time I read “Goodnight Moon” at bedtime.
We progressed from "students are apprentice learners" to "students are customers" to "students are enemies of the state" pretty quickly
Please share and use: a spreadsheet documenting the cuts announced by 87 (!) US universities & colleges during the 2023-24 academic year … so far. A long, dispiriting list of college closures, faculty/staff layoffs, academic program eliminations, and significant budget cuts. 1/
Sheet1 Cuts at 2-year and 4-year US higher education institutions since August 2023. Please send additions, edits, updates, corrections to watsont@miami.edu. Institution,State,Cuts,Management Rationa...
"This 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be. Or, to use a term that every other normal worker in the US uses to describe their workplace under these conditions: you are suffering from the effects of intentional systemic understaffing."
Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.
