@drszuckerman.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Educational Administration: studies school improvement and community partnerships as collective action problems; increasingly interested in knowledge creation and use; expert cat mom; beginner quilter. All views are my own.
Oh, look, it's NE's very own Jim Pillen. The poster boy for pick me red state governors. I continue to believe my program was dismantled so I would stop calling them authoritarians in public. I guess it worked because I was too busy finding another job to yell about this at the unicameral
I think it would be good to know, in a way, that it wasn't an isolated incident, that it's part of some bigger trend.
I can't tell if this would be illuminating or just reliving trauma 😬
Every day, this is how I work
Some days, I think I'm just a semi-sentient cat bed/can opener combo
UNL heard that and went, let's not even bother. I'm looking forward to moving on somewhere smaller and with greater clarity about who they are and what they do.
The job is undoable. The multi-versity is untenable. Everyone has lost the goddamned plot on what a university even is
It's an undoable job. And the multi-versity with no clear vision or mission, just heaps of competing priorities, is ungovernable.
Well that sounds fun
It makes me wonder what the current NU president is up to 🤔
The only way through us together. Something I've been trying to impress in my colleagues this year, and for a while.
This is why we are not going to solve reading with a two year training if the entire teaching staff turns over between years.
Apparently, I should have gotten gas on Friday when I got into town because now it's gonna be way more expensive tomorrow morning.
We tried to do this in our program, not for a course release but for the 15% of apportionment that is for advising. We had some number of PhD, EdD and masters that was equivalent to 5%
I imagine these men, on some level, also hate their wives 🤷🏻♀️
Good morning
"We don't want them to lose their jobs, we just want them to reply to our emails."
Stated today in the faculty Senate about the executive leadership council. This might be the single saddest thing said about this fiasco. We just want them to act in good faith and hear and acknowledge us
Let’s be super clear: Just like his vouchers for private religious schools, Taxpayer-funded religious charter schools has been @GovBillLee’s plan all along.
His education privatization push is about “advancing God’s kingdom”, as Betsy Devos openly said.
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It does eventually. Occasionally we have a cold snap that lasts for over a week and everything but the main roads is a skating rink. I threaten every winter to put up a yard sign that says, will pay taxes for snow removal
They did seem to plow before the snow ended when I was there... Lincoln Nebraska's plowing approach is it will melt eventually
I used to complain about the plowing in Albany, as is everyone's God given right if you live in Albany, but then I moved to Nebraska and I take back every single complaint
Just eating ranch crackers and waiting for NC vote V.2 like you do
Starving the flagship seems to be a fun game they play in Nebraska. UNL's portion of the NU budget has declined while UNO and UNK's has stayed flat. Central office and the med school have been the winners there 🤷🏻♀️
Hi friends - I'm working on article about efforts to measure, track, and adjust WORKLOAD in higher ed, both for staff and faculty.
I'm interested in talking to people who have experiences w/:
-Workload management gone wrong
-Exemplars of workload measurement
-True tales of workload being adjusted
Oh, IDK, the fact that it does the opposite of what education does, help one use their brain
Who remembers when Obama wore a tan suit?
Do IES next... Oh wait
Doesn't feel like it
Another fun unanticipated moment, having someone ask me to be an external reviewer and being like are you sure because I could land at an institution yours wouldn't think is good enough. Fun