Something cool (from Erin Reed at the other place): A federal judge ruled that trans and nonbinary teachers in Florida could determine their own pronouns, citing, in closing, “Song of Myself” as an anthem for American self-determination.
All the "solutions" proposed in this involve more unpaid work from faculty to manage our own feelings about being overstretched. I don't want a training, a coffee group, or a paid external speaker about about compassion fatigue. I want higher pay, admin support, & actual vacation time.
“educators can’t be expected to be compassionate to students if they are not being treated compassionately themselves.”
University managers must be committed to cultivating a compassionate culture and building trust in the workplace, says Andrew Woon
I just walk into another room and see a task that needs to be done and forget why I went in there.
One of these groups is a big outlier from the rest of the nation.
Would it be the same IR scholar who wrote a book about how we should listen to experts by any chance? Maybe the “Death of Expertise”???
I listen to normie radio and they shrug at this shit but lose their minds when Biden makes a slightly tone def comment. People expect Trump to be a scumbag and hold him to that standard but somehow still think he's qualified to be president. It's a fucking mystery to me as to what's going on here.