LOL at email for course "aimed at graduate students and postdocs" about how to teach...as if most of the professors didn't also need this... @academicchatter
#HigherEd folks: Please consider signing and widely sharing this letter re long-term ceasefire & just solution in #Gaza with university colleagues in New England, ideally before 10am on Monday Dec. 4, which is when it will be sent to US Senators representing New England states. The form will continue collecting signatures thereafter.
Note that signatories do NOT have to be US citizens, but must be a resident of CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, or VT.
#HigherEd folks: Please consider signing and widely sharing this letter re long-term ceasefire & just solution in Gaza with university colleagues in New England, ideally before 10am on Monday Dec. 4, which is when it will be sent to US Senators representing New England states. The form will continue collecting signatures thereafter.
Note that signatories do NOT have to be US citizens, but must be a resident of CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, or VT.
Heartbreaking article about #WVU selling out its future. Land grant universities tap into deep reserves of talent that are shut out of elite private schools. They played a critical role in the development of the US into a 20th century superpower. Now, we run universities like money-making enterprises - selling cheap products at inflated prices and wonder why the public questions our value. Shame on Gordon Gee and all like him. #highered#math#STEM@academicchatterhttps://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/an-academic-transformation-takes-on-the-math-department
If only LA Times and other California papers would cover UC's systemic ableism. Sure, folks fought for a Disability Studies program, but that still leaves the systemic ableism within the University of California untouched.
"When Paul Devlin was in high school applying for a university place, he noticed a grammatical error in a rejection letter sent to him by Harvard. He had no choice but to reject their rejection. The event was so therapeutic that Paul then decided to respond to all universities’ rejections..."
Good news? The UC Riverside Highlander Editorial Board realized that ableism and inaccessibility are problems worthy of an op-ed.
The bad news? They're not questioning the systemic ableism at UC, but just questioning how efficiently it's implemented. The client of the SDRC is University of California and its desire to meet as few of its bare minimum obligations under disability law as possible. The client is not disabled students. Highest common denominator accessibility should be the default and going beyond that worked out without interference from "experts" at stonewalling.
CalMatters briefly mentioned there would be an Office of Disability Rights, but so far as we know, no reporter questioned University of California as to what the Office would do and how it would do it. No questions about the current system throughout UC re disability and accessibility and how this Office would be any different. What is the Office empowered to do? How are whistleblowers protected? #UCAccessNow#Disability#HigherEd@disability https://sfba.social/@ucaccessnow/111421168831108154
The Department of History at FIU is hiring! Tenure track open rank position in Modern European history.
Please share widely, and please do apply if this is in your field. The Department of History is a group of rabble rousers, who don’t take anything lying down. In other words, you’d be working with some really good and smart people. @histodons@histodon@academicchatter#history#highered#job#histodons
The day when a four-hour teaching prep and grading session turns into having to restart the office computer once an hour because it keeps crashing on you.
We have looked to MOOCs, OERs, open access publications, and online education generally to widen access to higher education for those disadvantaged by the digital divide as well as for learners worldwide who are not affluent enough to access f2f higher education.
The two major "holidays" for disabled people in the US are July 26 - the anniversary of the signing into law of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) in October. The former at least has real ties to disability activism and history although it is also focused on cheerleading the legislative floor that institutions still haven't met 33 years later.
The latter is aimed at (abled) employers and is even more about cheering the status quo.
"Accommodations" is a term that says inaccessibility is the desired default - anything that differs from that is noblesse oblige from abled people - rather than our actual right as co-equal members of this society.
Because this is nominally for disabled people - this is one of the few University of California events with captions and (presumably ASL) interpretation, and an online option.
It's National Disability Employment Awareness Month. It's safe to say disabled people are already aware of disability. So over to abled people:
What is your university doing to make highest common denominator accessibility the DEFAULT? Not just during July or October, but year 'round. #UCAccessNow#NDEAM#HigherEd
More abled folks should pay attention to their university's accessibility when they find themselves temporarily disabled. Too many experience it, but forget all about it once they've healed.
I'm going out on a limb here, but maybe... just MAYBE...
...the reason why so many people in the USA don't believe in the value of a college education anymore is BECAUSE we are running our universities like businesses, and not because we aren't.
Does anyone in #highered know of any good resources / reviews / analysis on the influences of consulting firms on university finance and governance? The more I look, the more it seems like the trend of universities running like businesses is being pushed through a coordinated effort. @academicchatter@academicsunite
Why do PhD students do so much to silo off from Masters students...as if we were not all grad students sharing many of the same issues? @phdstudents #HigherEd#GradSchool
Complex feelings. Students are fundraising to attend SSHA conference in DC & did a 5K this a.m. I wore a sandwich board asking for donations to our Venmo account. Proud of the students & ashamed of the state of US higher ed that we actually ask for money on the street to pay for an opportunity like this. The students are all first gen & all but one is from an underrepresented group.