Another move away from academic freedom. If sociologists cannot talk about social structures and systems in substantive ways, how are folks supposed to engage with the discipline?
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
This great news and so much was lost through preemptive compliance
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Over the past ten years, #RIHE has published >80 articles that used NCES data as a primary data source. In this special collection, we highlight key RIHE articles that used NCES data to provide important insights for research, practice, and policy. #highered link.springer.com/collections/...
After watching this with my kiddo, this soundtrack is on repeat. It's soooooooo good!
What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken legislature?
Our corrupt SCOTUS?
Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly
The Guardian broke the story about excessive surveillance on U Michigan’s campus (thousands of surveillance cameras, undercover cops trailing students, drones over public squares).
U-M regents approved spending for cops/cameras and ignored our complaint in the May Faculty Governance report.
Looking to join one of the dopest research centers?? Then apply for this postdoc at the @umichstonecid.bsky.social to work with my colleague Pablo Mitnik!
Congratulations on your well-deserved promotion to Professor, Dr. Thomas!
We're so fortunate to have you in the Marsal School! 💙💛
We love to see it! Congratulations! 💙💛🎉
No lies detected.
This is one of books we've kept despite having a tween. It's right up there with Click, Clack, Moo
Congratulations to Dr. F. DuBois Bowman for being named the president of his beloved alma mater, Morehouse College! You will be missed at U-M & I'm grateful our families crossed paths during our shared time in A2. #AcademicSky
news.morehouse.edu/dr.-f.-duboi...
Today's motherscholar life looks like submitting my R&R from the bleachers at the field hockey facility on campus since kiddo had practice & I had uninterrupted time to work outside. The beautiful weather was perfect for polishing off & sending in this manuscript! 🏑☀️👩🏻💻 #AcademicSky #academicparent
If you missed the ASHE first 100 days webinar moderated by @jackiepedota.bsky.social with me, @robertkelchen.com, Diane Cheng, and Kyle Southern, here's the recording. I talked about authoritarians but also told some jokes!
youtu.be/qTxj9r3n_eE?...
Field hockey team holding a banner that reads, “2025 National Club Championship Qualified. On to Virginia Beach, VA”
In addition to my faculty role, I drive KidUber & am part of a field hockey support squad.
I’m so proud of my kiddo’s team who came in 2nd at their U14 Regional Club Championship tournament this weekend. On to the USA Field Hockey National Club Championship in June! 💙🧡🐍🏑 #fieldhockey
Santa Ono says he “declined to politicize the institution.”
While Pres of UM, he:
1. Cancelled the student vote about BDS because he personally disagrees with boycotts of Israel.
2. Prosecuted peaceful pro-Palestinian student protesters.
3. Fired a staff member at the bequest of the ADL.
They just keep digging a deeper & deeper hole
This ranks very high on @itsalexcl.bsky.social’s “I can’t even scale”
He's sweating and has not officially even gotten to Florida.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Who’s surprised?
Anyone… anyone….
Congratulations on your promotion, Kevin! Your colleagues are so fortunate to have you as a Chair! 🎉✨
Surprised by the timing, but the decision itself... 🤷🏻♀️ I'm not mad about it at all
I mean... 😮💨
Things that set the group chats on fire on a Sunday night...
✳️ New manuscript out this week in the Journal of Postsecondary Student Success ✳️
We examined how low-income students experience career programming intended to support their success. It was helpful, but at times stressful & created tensions related to identity
journals.flvc.org/jpss/article...
Indiana has passed legislation that, if signed by the governor, will allow him to appoint IU trustees and the state to decide which academic programs to eliminate. "Overreach doesn't begin to describe the actions of the Legislature,” one source told @ryanequinn.bsky.social.
tinyurl.com/mwjbmx3f
Due to maintenance, Research.gov (including access to NSF-PAR, GRFP, PES, and ETAP) will be unavailable from Fri., 4/25 at 10:00 PM ET to Sat., 4/26 at 1:00 PM ET. NSF apologizes for any inconvenience.
🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees:
Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and…
1. Download your NSF award letters.
2. Print PDF your annual reports.
3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports.
NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov
They are segregationist and this will be open season for discrimination.
“the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”
NAACP Legal Defense Fund sues Dept of Education over ongoing destruction of data infrastructure
💪🎉
Suit is on behalf of National Academy of Education & National Council on Measurement in Education
LDF has a long and storied history. So honored they
are representing NAEd, of which I am a fellow
#WeAreDEI rally on the University of Michigan Diag, in beautiful evening light.
Faculty senate resolutions are attached to the doors of the Ruthven building beneath a #WeAreDEI sign. The logo above the doors says "Truth conquers by itself".
There was a big #WeAreDEI rally and march at U-M this evening. Started on the Diag, then off to Ruthven where the 4 new resolutions of the faculty senate were posted on the central administration's doors.
