Will's Ferrell's thoughts quoted here echo some of my own. There are trans folks I've known on both sides of their transitions. Getting to live as who they've always been makes a difference, and I want people, particularly the people I like and love, to be at home with their own selves.
Everything in this article is offensive, not least of which is the fact that the author offers no pedagogical solutions like universal design. We need disability justice in higher ed, not more gatekeeping and pearl clutching. www.chronicle.com/article/do-c...
Higher ed’s maximally inclusive approach hurts those it attempts to help.
Grab some free tests, show there is still a demand so they keep offering them please.
The U.S. government is sending free COVID tests again. I just ordered mine! Get yours here. special.usps.com/testkits
In the now 13 years I've been writing about higher ed at IHE, I've experienced personally, and been witness to countless examples of administrative indifference to NTT faculty labor, but the absolute shivving being perpetrated by 4 tenured English faculty at Stanford is the worst.
Now, I try to be amused, but it’s not working.
New paper from the awesome Patient-led Research Collaboration. Shows: 🦠 Increase severity & frequency of fatigue & PEM with every reinfection 🦠 Risk of Long Covid 2 infections - x2.14 more likely 3 + infections - X3.75 more likely
If you’re deporting students, you’re not a college, you’re just a police state with dorms.
A pro-Palestinian international student has been barred from campus after participating in a disruption of a career fair attended by defense contractors L3Harris and Boeing.
Just published a review of the thought-provoking and practical book Information Literacy and Social Media by Michele Santamaría and Nicole Pfannenstiel. meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/20...
Cornell students allege yesterday was the “first [known] time a U.S. university has enacted deportation powers against a student” over Palestine organizing, effectively deporting grad student Momodou Taal, over a protest of defense contractors at a job fair last week h/t @leximcmenamin.bsky.social
