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Yea⌠Harvard Ed Press had light publicist activity. At Beacon I have an assigned publicity team. I also decided to hire a firm to assist with contracting for talks and reaching out to local libraries and book stores to do book talks nearby.
Hmmm⌠I guess that checks for me.
I'm trying out both Threads and Bluesky at the same time, and I think that most of my fave nerds are more active over here.
Folks always look at anti-Blackness like, "ooo this will get me what white people get!" Rarely works out.
Princeton's AsianAm numbers dropped too. There've been mixed outcomes for AsianAms post-affirmative action, devastating declines in Black, Latine, & Indigenous students, and increases in white students. AsianAms who said Ed Blum was their hero let their anti-Blackness get the best of them.
Yaleâs enrollment numbers are out. 2 immediate thoughts. 1. There remain possible approaches to diversity that Yale should (but wonât) celebrate for fear of being sued. 2. This adds to the mixed Asian American outcomesâSFFA ruling wasnât an Asian American win. yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/09...
In the class of 2028, the first to be admitted after the fall of affirmative action in college admissions, there was a decrease in the share of Asian American students, while the enrollment of white s...
Example: Dual credit programs. I know you know which funder that is, @bakerdphd.bsky.social.
And funders like to influence or compete on a friendly basis with each other. So if X Foundation funds X initiative, they are hoping to influence Y Foundation to fund X initiative or something complimentary. It's the closest thing to coordinated investments we have on the "left."
agree with others. and i'll add to the mix: -Philanthropy: to show each other how their funded initiatives are working. -Boards and head hunters: so that the institutional leader(s) look good for their next job. -Government agencies and advocates: to offer "new" ideas for consideration/adoption.
It was always a lawsuit by and for white supremacists.