Andrew Perrin

Last month I was happy to be part of a gathering on civic thought in higher education, sponsored by @snfagora.bsky.social and AEI . Video is now up at www.aei.org/events/civic... and my panel in specific is at www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKnP... .

I’m so excited to have you joining us!

Everyone wants U.S. colleges to produce good citizens. No one knows how. My view with @chrislundberg today via @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/opinion/ever...

Just withdrew a manuscript from @plos.org one after over seven months with no review. Disappointed cause I like the model but this is unacceptable.

The front page of Contexts magazine's Winter 2025 Special Section: Election Reflections--And What Comes Next, by Amin Ghaziani and Seth Abrutyn. The image is black, white, and red, with images of flags, check marks, and circles, and the text reads: Just before the 2024 U.S. Presidential election, we asked a group of sociologists--all esteemed researchers from different subfields of our discipline--to think, observe, and write about America's big decision. Here, we present a special, and very timely, section of the magazine: a curated collection of essays that track the pulse of our democracy.

New! Sociologists' election reflections as the 2nd Trump Administration took power: @daniellaurison.bsky.social, Mary Romero, @andrewjperrin.bsky.social, A. Spencer-Blume, @cecimenjivar.bsky.social, & E. Bonilla-Silva on the campaigns waged & the battles yet to come tinyurl.com/SPE-election

In his opening speech, Speaker Mike Johnson just recited a long prayer attributed to Thomas Jefferson.

As @jackjenkins.me and others have pointed out, Jefferson never said any of this: www.monticello.org/research-edu...

Jeez-I loved the story and thought it was lovely and inspiring parenting. It’s these responses that are so depressing!

Letter | Florida’s Gen Ed Power Struggle The goal shouldn’t be substituting the legislature’s preferred ideology for the faculty’s, writes Andrew J. Perrin.

www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

New @annalsats.bsky.social

Lest a Smoky Haze of Doubt Suffocate Progress Towards Better Pulse Oximeters

This was fun to write with Vincent Ni @jlynch13.bsky.social @hauschildt.bsky.social @drtomori.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1513/Anna... PubMed: 39700509

#FixPulseOx #FixTheDamnMachines

citizens, scholars, and professionals. That’s what the @UNC Ideas in Action curriculum is founded on. [5/5]

offers a substantive rationale for avoiding ideologically driven courses in gen ed without simply substituting one group’s ideology for another’s. And most importantly it puts students’ needs before those of faculty, focusing on graduating rounded, capable people as [4/]

what capacities students most need for civic, intellectual, moral, and yes professional success, and foster those capacities through substantive courses across human knowledge. Then measure outcomes and adjust: are students gaining those capacities? This approach [3/]

They contrast this vision to “sprawl” in gen ed where “tendentious” and “exotic” approaches are taught. Yes gen ed can sprawl, but substituting their ideologically driven (“great”, “sacred”, “momentous”) content is no solution. The right approach is to examine [2/]

Professors Ruined Gen Ed. Florida is Fixing It. When faculty members don’t do their jobs, the state must step in.

The authors assert: “General education presumes a body of knowledge that all students should absorb, a core of great works, historic persons and events, momentous inquiries, prized ideas and sacred truths.” [1/] www.chronicle.com/article/prof...

Still very on point

Job!

My suspicion is you’re confusing cause and effect. People report “believing” these things because people like them are supposed to believe them. Attitude/identity => misinformation/belief, not the other way around. (Again, my suspicion, not a demonstrated finding.)

That’s the quote. I was looking for it. And here it is. Hannah Arendt on the Matt Gaetz as AG announcement

Applications are open for The Carolina Population Center’s Population Science Training Program. The postdoctoral traineeship prepares scientists to become leaders in population health fields. The deadline to apply is Dec. 18.

Apply now: bit.ly/4h3lpUy

Bringing ideas into the open keeps messy protest encampments at bay | Op-Ed College administrations have come to value avoiding conflict over encouraging intellectual and political risk, the authors write.

In yesterday’s piece in @seattletimes @chrislundberg and I argue that real, conflictual, evidence-informed debate on campus could have avoided or improved the encampment situation. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-...

The squandered promise of general education - Public Ed Works By Andrew J. Perrin and A.T. Panter CHAPEL HILL (September 18, 2024) –General Education. Distribution Requirements. Such standards – required by nearly every institution of higher learning and prescri...

The Squandered Promise of General Education - my new piece with A. T. Panter about elevating gen ed. In @HigherEdWorks www.publicedworks.org/2024/09/the-...

We've got two jobs!

Carolina Sociology is hiring at the Assistant or Associate levels with a focus on gender, sexualities and migration. Some HR hiccups slowed down the job posting but not the deadline, so we start review in ten days.

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/288...

Join Leila Brammer and me for a discussion of what we learned (and didn't) from the debate - tomorrow (Sep 11), 4:30-6:00, in Hodson 210 @JHUArtsSciences . Looking forward to the conversation! @SNFAgoraJHU Info and registration: snfagora.jhu.edu/event/what-t...

Assistant Professor of Sociology (field open): apply.interfolio.com/150533 . Applications due September 3.

Assistant Professor of Sociology: Race & Ethnicity (apply.interfolio.com/150532 ) as part of the interdisciplinary Advancing Racial Equity in Health, Housing, and Education(ARE_HHE) cluster (research.jhu.edu/bloomberg-dist…). Applications due September 3.

JHU Sociology @JHUArtsSciences is hiring FOUR assistant professors in the coming year! We are so excited to continue our growth.

The SNF Agora Institute @JohnsHopkins @SNFAgoraJHU is looking for a Communications Manager - if that’s you come work with an amazing group of people on discovery, dialogue, and design for democracy! jobs.jhu.edu/job/Batimore...

We are super excited to officially welcome Monica Prasad to JHU Sociology and the SNF Agora Institute as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor! hub.jhu.edu/2023/12/15/s...

Hey can I join? Doing rather than being is super important to all kinds of democracy stuff.

Here's hoping the BOT/BOG will rise above partisanship to find a leader who can keep Carolina growing, great, and accessible.