Meagan S. Richard

Record Number of In-State First-Year Students Welcomed at UMass Boston Following Historic Beacon Pledge Commitment Over 1,900 New Enrollees Build on Recent Growth of Boston’s Public Research University

News from UMass Boston today... Feels great to be here in light of all the "enrollment cliff" hand wringing.

UMass Boston has welcomed its largest in-state first-year class ever, with 1,994 admitted students drawn from a record pool of more than 22,000 applicants.

www.umb.edu/news/recent-...

On September 30 at 12pm EST, the Learning & Teaching in Educational Leadership SIG is hosting a special panel discussion on AI in educational leadership programs. Please consider attending. Link: fau-edu.zoom.us/j/8764448197...

Leadership for social justice folks! Please check this posting out. And feel free to DM me. I just started with UMass this fall but I have a good feel for the vibes and the expectations, esp. in contrast to previous experiences.

My short take: I am so so happy and lucky to be here!

Calling all leadership for social justice scholars... Take a look at this posting. We are SERIOUS about social justice here and this would be a great landing point if you are too!!!

employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

This is so interesting!!! Bluesky to me has felt like a very different experience vs Twitter. Honestly, it feels a bit like a waste of time. My posts feel less visible. I've been thinking about quitting and honestly that feels very freeing, to exit academic social media.

Leading Beyond the School Walls: Understanding Principal Community Activism - The Urban Review The purpose of this study is to investigate the ways school leaders perceive and engage in community-focused, activist leadership in response to community needs. We rely on a critical qualitative rese...

New publication! And I realized today that I currently have **four** in review. Hoping more to follow soon!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

When professors experience racism (sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc) at work, that’s part of their service load. It takes work to deal with that and still come back and do your job. That’s service to the department. It’s deeply unfair service. But it is service.

I'm sorry. 😔 This is so frustrating. And your project sounds wonderful.

I think Bluesky is just sorta dead a lot of the time 😭

I am so grateful for the opportunities I have had at ODU. In particular, I am thankful for the students I've had the privilege to work with during these two years. More than anything else, they are what have given my job meaning. 💓 Looking forward to watching their journeys, even if from afar.

I am excited to officially announce that this fall I am beginning a new role as an Assistant Professor in the Leadership in Education department at @umassboston.bsky.social I am joining some fabulous colleagues doing important social justice work. And I can't wait to be back in my home state! 🎉🎉

So so excited for you, and I cannot wait to continue to watch you on your journey!!!

Can't wait to see it!!!!!

Positive news this AM. Got an R&R, yay, and I am at the final stage of writing another MS where I just have to input all my references from Zotero (I do that at the end so the fields don't slow down my doc). Plugging away at it all as the world burns around me.

Having the aftercare makes a huge difference. I didn't see mention of that but they certainly may offer it!

Today I was looking at schools for my daughter, was curious about charter options. One I looked at stated it is is only open for a half day every Wednesday. I wondered to myself, is this one of the subtle ways charters shape their student body? Getting into school age is going to be a journey!

Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence (TVCE) 1st Annual Symposium Guildhall School of Music and Drama is delighted to announced that on the 8th July, in collaboration with the Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence [TVCE], the De-Centre for Socially Engaged Practice an...

The Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence invites you to apply to present at our first annual Symposium on 8th July: www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/tra...
Deadline for submissions 28th April

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Do I know anyone on here who has some expertise in Interrupted Time Series designs? I have a few quick questions on it.

I feel as an academic that we need leadership. In our institutions and more broadly. I don't have the safety to make a stand alone (at the end of the day I need to feed my kid) so I need someone in leadership to lead. I feel rudderless and helpless. And everyone around me is business as usual. 🙁

Was just thinking about AERA coming up and feeling dread about how it's prob just going to be business as usual yet our world is burning before our eyes.

Federal Cuts Prompt Johns Hopkins to Cut More Than 2,000 Workers The university, a leader in scientific research, has been hard hit by the Trump administration’s cuts, which will slash at least $800 million from its budget.

How are we just continuing to operate as normal in this environment?

Projects cut include efforts to “care for mothers and infants, fight disease, provide clean drinking water and advance countless other critical, lifesaving efforts around the world.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English The American empire is over: Richard Wolff on Trump, tariffs and the rising power of BRICS | UpFront

Excellent host and guest. Worth a watch. @marclamonthill.bsky.social @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ih7...

Just that students deserve our time... They only get one opportunity to go through the degree process and it feels disrespectful not to grade their writing. Writing is personal.

The Unofficial List of Ed Policy Orgs for Job/Internship Seekers

It's that time of year to circulate this list of orgs for those seeking ed policy jobs/internships. Please let me know if there are opportunities/orgs I should add. Good luck out there! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Is it ethical to use AI to grade student papers? IMO not at all, but I know some have gone that route. What do you think?

Upcoming special event via the LTEL SIG re: AI.

Link: fau-edu.zoom.us/j/8162895231...

AERA Division A Newsletter We are collecting responses for our spring newsletter. Please fill out (anonymously) and consider sharing with colleagues.

Colleagues--Please consider filling out this one-question Google Form on self-care during this time. This is to inform a feature Div A (not yet on Bluesky) is going to do for their next newsletter. Responses are anonymous. Please share widely.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Snowday #3 here in Norfolk. While I haven't been able to get much work done with my now four-year-old at home, I did make this quasi-igloo today! And now I'm super sore and think I might have a sunburn in my eyes from the snow 😂. But this still feels like an accomplishment!

Hitting Pause on the ‘Dear Colleague’ Letter The Department of Education is overstepping its bounds and infringing on constitutional rights.

Here, I explain how the February 14 "Dear Colleague" letter is a widely expansive distortion of the court’s ruling in SFFA. Institutional responses should remain focused on areas that the Supreme Court addressed and not expand to those clearly outside its purview.

www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...

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New piece! JCEL case exploring an instance of white fragility within one preparation program classroom. Would be great as a jumping-off point in a beginning session of a course that discusses issues of race and injustice more broadly.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...