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In a 5:00 pm Friday news dump, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) has shuttered the 77-year old Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC).
https://mailchi.mp/ncte/ncte-update-decision-by-ncte-executive-committee?e=8ea86f2170
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In a 5:00 pm Friday news dump, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) has shuttered the 77-year old Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC).
https://mailchi.mp/ncte/ncte-update-decision-by-ncte-executive-committee?e=8ea86f2170
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This is something those who teach courses need to know - sometimes disabled students need to change position. They're not not paying attention. They're not trying to draw attention from others. They're trying to keep out of pain and keep functional.
Classrooms and lecture halls need the infrastructure that allows this, but they also need the *culture* that allows this.
(Note: not everyone who has this access need uses a wheelchair, or obvious mobility aid, either. It's still an access need.)
#UCAccessNow #Ableism #Accessibility #HigherEd https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TyMd_wuyAmw
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This is something those who teach courses need to know - sometimes disabled students need to change position. They're not not paying attention. They're not trying to draw attention from others. They're trying to keep out of pain and keep functional.
Classrooms and lecture halls need the infrastructure that allows this, but they also need the *culture* that allows this.
(Note: not everyone who has this access need uses a wheelchair, or obvious mobility aid, either. It's still an access need.)
#UCAccessNow #Ableism #Accessibility #HigherEd https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TyMd_wuyAmw
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"A total of 36 faculty and academic staff will lose their jobs and three positions will be reduced from full-time to part-time in PSU’s new plan. Portland State had previously announced a plan for 52 layoffs in May. The cuts amount to nearly $15.9 million in savings for PSU.
This final layoff count only covers university workers represented by the faculty union, PSU American Association of University Professors."
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/07/21/portland-state-university-layoffs-oregon-education/
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"A total of 36 faculty and academic staff will lose their jobs and three positions will be reduced from full-time to part-time in PSU’s new plan. Portland State had previously announced a plan for 52 layoffs in May. The cuts amount to nearly $15.9 million in savings for PSU.
This final layoff count only covers university workers represented by the faculty union, PSU American Association of University Professors."
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/07/21/portland-state-university-layoffs-oregon-education/
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#ThisWasNews one year ago:
Columbia University agrees to pay more than $220M in deal with Trump to restore federal funding.
#highered #ColumbiaU #FederalResearch #Trump
See what else was news. Reply to comment publicly or say 'remind me in 30 days'
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Colleague: Last class of the semester for you too today, hey?
Me: Yes, I can't wait!!
Colleague: We're watching film. What fun thing are you doing with your class?
Me: An introduction to multiple linear regression analysis! 🤗
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Colleague: Last class of the semester for you too today, hey?
Me: Yes, I can't wait!!
Colleague: We're watching film. What fun thing are you doing with your class?
Me: An introduction to multiple linear regression analysis! 🤗
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"by terminating billions of dollars in grants, and never rerouting that money to other grant opportunities, the Trump administration violated the constitution by not spending money in ways Congress specifically required through laws it passed on how research funds should be used." #HigherEd #phdchat
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"Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COVID-19 to screen for projects that ran afoul of the Trump administration’s priorities." #HigherEd
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"By using keyword searches to review hundreds of grants and terminate them en masse rather than reviewing them individually on their merits, the Trump administration targeted research it found politically disfavorable, which is a First Amendment violation." #HigherEd
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"Cal State recently spent $12 million settling the lawsuit in which two female employees at Cal State San Bernardino said they were harassed and discriminated against based on their gender by two male university administrators: Morales and former Palm Desert campus dean Jake Zhu" #California #HigherEd #Sexism
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"Cal State recently spent $12 million settling the lawsuit in which two female employees at Cal State San Bernardino said they were harassed and discriminated against based on their gender by two male university administrators: Morales and former Palm Desert campus dean Jake Zhu" #California #HigherEd #Sexism
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Cal State president at center of $12M discrimination suit is up for transition job
"An outgoing California State University president, one of two administrators at the center of a multi-million dollar discrimination lawsuit, may transfer to a different Cal State job while the university pays his salary and benefits."
https://calmatters.org/education/2026/07/cal-state-san-bernardino-president-discrimination-lawsuit/ #California #HigherEd #Sexism
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Cal State president at center of $12M discrimination suit is up for transition job
"An outgoing California State University president, one of two administrators at the center of a multi-million dollar discrimination lawsuit, may transfer to a different Cal State job while the university pays his salary and benefits."
https://calmatters.org/education/2026/07/cal-state-san-bernardino-president-discrimination-lawsuit/ #California #HigherEd #Sexism
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@hannorein/116963866947610693
"Responsible AI adoption at scale" is an oxymoron. Unfortunately, university trustees — typically, corporate shills and capitalist luminaries — make sure that administrators, whose salary depends on failing to understand this, fail to understand this.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@hannorein/116963866947610693
"Responsible AI adoption at scale" is an oxymoron. Unfortunately, university trustees — typically, corporate shills and capitalist luminaries — make sure that administrators, whose salary depends on failing to understand this, fail to understand this.
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"No faculty member, student, or worker should face the stripping of their livelihood for protesting a genocide or speaking out against corporate and political complicity. Academic institutions must serve as sanctuaries for rigorous debate, and free expression, rather than capitulating to the financial leverage of trustees or the political pressures of congressional intimidation campaigns"
https://www.aaup.org/news/northwestern-universitys-campaign-against-free-expression
#AAUP #PolicingTheCampus #uspol #Northwestern #academia #HigherEd
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"No faculty member, student, or worker should face the stripping of their livelihood for protesting a genocide or speaking out against corporate and political complicity. Academic institutions must serve as sanctuaries for rigorous debate, and free expression, rather than capitulating to the financial leverage of trustees or the political pressures of congressional intimidation campaigns"
https://www.aaup.org/news/northwestern-universitys-campaign-against-free-expression
#AAUP #PolicingTheCampus #uspol #Northwestern #academia #HigherEd
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Keeping busy in retirement... I’m grateful to have been asked to be part of the team launching this program:
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Keeping busy in retirement... I’m grateful to have been asked to be part of the team launching this program:
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Proprietary formats are tools for vendor lock-in. Moving toward open standards is essential for academic digital sovereignty. 📄🔓 #OpenStandards #LibreOffice #HigherEd #Sovereignty #FOSS
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/17/microsofts-main-tool-for-lock-in/ -
I am not speaking for my employer when I say "FUCK TRUMP'S DEATH SQUADS"
which is exactly my problem with my employer
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I am not speaking for my employer when I say "FUCK TRUMP'S DEATH SQUADS"
which is exactly my problem with my employer
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mbongowo/116918572217118815
"students learn buttons, not data models" - this perfectly encapsulates what I see again and again in #DigitalHumanities #HigherEd.
Most courses (in my experience) are trying to get to the specific thing, be it a method or object, they want to focus on. Very understandably so.
But with a this leads to skipping/rushing through the foundational concepts.It's a catch-22:
Starting with the foundations is not engaging and can lead to 'learning without understanding why'1/2, idea in next toot
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mbongowo/116918572217118815
"students learn buttons, not data models" - this perfectly encapsulates what I see again and again in #DigitalHumanities #HigherEd.
Most courses (in my experience) are trying to get to the specific thing, be it a method or object, they want to focus on. Very understandably so.
But with a this leads to skipping/rushing through the foundational concepts.It's a catch-22:
Starting with the foundations is not engaging and can lead to 'learning without understanding why'1/2, idea in next toot
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me finally getting a chance to tell more than 100 K-12 educators at once that THEY are the giants upon whose shoulders we (erstwhile, in my case) university faculty stand when our own efforts help students continue in their learning journey...
#HigherEd
