Dr. Liz Norell

In a sector where there is always too much to do, too few people to do it, and ever-dwindling budgets, any other kind of assessment is a luxury, sadly. To do assessment well requires time, thought, care, and creativity (IMO). Surveys of faculty/students are relatively inexpensive and easy. 🤷‍♀️

Oh that looks really good!

Oh that is BLEAK.

These conversations aren't happening in many of the spaces I inhabit in #HigherEd, to our collective detriment.
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Mays's piece reminds of this and nudges us to reckon with the moral and ethical undercurrents of this moment in transparent and values-driven ways.

Moral injury surrounds us, and each of us in #HigherEd is struggling to identify our own red lines & core values. That includes students, who aren't sure they can trust our institutions and/or their instructors to be acting in accordance with our stated values, which begs the question: should they?

It's the erosion of trust in ourselves--in our ability to perceive a situation clearly and understand what's being asked of us--that is most pernicious. It's genuinely destabilizing and existentially threatening.
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More than ever, we must have compassion for our colleagues and our students.

I've experienced moral injury at two moments, and both had the effect Mays describes: "When we educators and leaders repeatedly experience a conflict between institutional demands and our ethical convictions, it gradually erodes our trust in ourselves, in others and in the institutions we serve."

Higher Ed Is Morally Injured (opinion) As higher ed confronts a crisis of values, we must name, witness and transcend moral injury, Mays Imad writes.

I am enormously grateful for the clear writing and ethical perspective offered by my friend Mays Imad, in this vital piece for @insidehighered.com today: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

I certainly wasn't criticizing you for passing it along! It's not your fault!

That salary is ... insufficient to live comfortably in DC, though. 👀

"It’s true that there are physical feats that players in one league can accomplish that players in the other league simply cannot. For example, one league has players like DeWanna Bonner, who can carry and give birth to twins and return the next season to average 17.3 points and 7.2 rebounds a game, while the other league has multiple players like LeBron James, who can carry the ball."

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www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

What a fun dissertation topic! Good luck! (And I filled out the survey.)

a woman in a tuxedo is sitting in front of a crowd of people at an awards ceremony . Alt: Meryl Streep at an awards ceremony points to the stage and applauds enthusiastically. J-Lo, sitting next to her, agrees. Others in the crowd are clapping, too.

RARELY (and I mean that) have I seen a preview of an APSR piece that feels so shockingly relevant and meaningful. Congrats on getting this through peer review to publication. This is necessary work. #PoliSci #Disability #Scholarship

How to Sharpen Executive Functions: Activities to Hone Brain Skills Executive functioning skills range from working memory to cognitive flexibility to inhibitory control, and beyond. They power our daily functioning, future planning, and mental/physical health. Here, ...

"Pets improve mood and reduce stress. Studies show that the presence of a dog in the classroom (whether in preschool, grade school, or university) or in the workplace reduces stress and improves attention and performance." #BringYourDogToWork www.additudemag.com/how-to-impro...

This is so, so true. I have many friends and colleagues who find conference food options to be incredibly difficult to navigate--and for no good reason. Catering orders have to be placed FAR in advance. JUST TELL PEOPLE WHAT TO EXPECT. It's not like it's hard.

“I remind myself often of Dale Carnegie’s observation that our favorite word is our own name”

~ @liznorell.bsky.social “The Present Professor”

Conservative Org. Requests Materials for 70 Chapel Hill Courses The Oversight Project, founded by the Heritage Foundation, is using an open records request to search for terms like “DEI” and “gender identity.” Faculty say it encroaches on academic freedom.

IMPORTANT: “‘At many public universities, syllabi are considered intellectual property. As such, professors are not required to share their syllabi in response to public records requests. Check your university policy prior to complying advance.’"

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

‘Cognitive Science,’ All the Rage in British Schools, Fails to Register in U.S. Educators blame this ‘reverse Beatles effect’ on America’s decentralized system and grad schools that are often hostile to research.

This article is worth reading! Thanks ‪@the74.bsky.social‬

www.the74million.org/article/cogn...

#teachlearnsky #Edusky

No one - I repeat - no one who is a climate action expert is telling you not to use AC.

It is a bunch of unaccountably sanctimonious randos and we reject everything they're saying.

Stay a safe temperature. Stay alive. Stop burning fossil fuels.

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This is why I draw such a line around even a little bit of dehumanizing language. This is how it works.

Grittier Than You In Cait’s talk, Grittier Than You, she explains the concept of “grit,” personal anecdotes about the toxicity of “grit,” and highlight how people around us are using “grit” in invisible ways all the ti...

www.ted.com/talks/cait_k...
@caitskirby.bsky.social is one of my smartest advocate friends and colleagues. 🥰

These both seem entirely believable. @caitskirby.bsky.social has a TEDx talk about grit + disability. She emphasizes that people who have lived with disability/chronic illness have grit/resilience in spades.

Anyway, this is what I've been thinking about, and I'd be really curious to hear thoughts! Feel free to private message me or comment, or send me an email if we're already in touch.

For a while now, I've had a keen interest to talk about the things I wish I'd known before I first requested accommodations. I envision a project that equips readers with that knowledge plus some of the more social side of things.

I'm specifically thinking about weaving knowledge about accommodations, process, etc., with research, community, and narratives from a variety of different disabled academic perspectives. Not replicating Margaret Price/Jay Dolmage's work, but a bit more on the how-to/advice side. The friend we need.

Ever since work wrapped up on the manuscript for my book, I've been trying to figure out what the next project is. Earlier today, I was doing some reading, and ideas started to coalesce around the idea of a ... companion/handbook for disabled folks working in academia. Thoughts?!

You kept this quiet effectively. Well done, good sir! 🥳🔥✊🏻

Well happy day, @thetattooedprof.bsky.social has a new book coming out...!!! 🥳 This is going to be a critical text for higher ed folks to have. I. Cannot. Wait. 💥

i have no idea if this is true and i don’t even care, it’s part of the little caesar’s canon now