Michelle Burnham

Taking Action in Higher Ed Taking Action for Higher Education is a workbook to assist university workers in assessing personal risk and making decisions about how and when to take action to resist fascism.

I just posted a free workbook that aims to help university workers better understand when and how to take risks in the fight against fascism in higher ed.

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The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Good deal,everyone (although it’s also a really good deal if you pay for it for the year) 😊

Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions Executive SummaryEducational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight.

I hope that faculty across the country read this report from the AAUP on AI & the Academic Professions, share it with their university administrators,& collectivize to create communities that use this document as a roadmap towards gaining agency over higher education. www.aaup.org/reports-publ...

For the other universities watching, the lesson is PLAY OFFENSE. Do not accept the terms of conflict you've been presented. Relentlessly communicate your intention and vision. Engage and challenge those who misrepresent your intentions.

But it’s also wrong. Again, ROI on hum faculty/classes is huge for universities. “Of the 21 units at UW, the humanities and, to a lesser degree, the social sciences are the only ones that generate more tuition income than 100 percent of their total expenditure.” /6

The rise of the English major: BlackRock COO wants to recruit liberal arts analysts that 'have nothing to do with finance or technology' As AI rises, so does the demand for critical thinkers.

E.g. Recently the CEO of Blackrock said he didn’t want finance or comp sci majors. He wanted history majors and English majors. Goldman Sachs agreed. / 3 fortune.com/2024/05/17/b...

One of the most valuable things I learned from a former WSJ managing editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, James B. Stewart, was a workshop based on his book "Follow the Story: How to Write Successful Nonfiction", which I recommend to students literally every year. Used paperbacks are like $5.

I like this idea!

Can we stop using Canvas? Return to the paper syllabus? Something else? These are my questions for real.

5) THE GILDED AGE is truly wasting its cast by not having at least one musical episode

Correct 👇🏼

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5 of my fantasy team players are on Team Clark so it’s Team Clark for me, all the way. Upstarts and A’ja. Let’s go! #WNBA

Go WNBA players!

Oddly enough, had Caitlin been ejected, she'd be in better shape right now. #WNBA

Oh my goodness, how scary. So glad you’re receiving good care. Sending you strength (generally but also as a person with a cardiac pacemaker who is several decades younger than the average person with a pacemaker).

Yes PLEASE

The cover of the latest bokk on the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series, "Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move," edited by Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari, showing an image of an Italian family preparing to depart and and Irish family reading a letter from America.

Interested in global history in the contexts of migration, diaspora, and empire? See the Glusksman Irish Diaspora Series, an initiative by @gihnyu.bsky.social that I have the pleasure of editing for @nyupress.bsky.social: nyupress.org/search-resul...

This is bullshit.

Flor and her partner are grifters who have built their influencer accounts off the backs of farmworkers and have ripped them off for 100s of thousands of dollars via their GoFundMe hustles and their fake non-profit "Celebration Nation"

5 years of receipts now.

Does anyone recall a novel with Foucault in the title, but it is not Foucault's Pendulum?

Astoundingly bad

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Yikes

Cf. the plot line in the 1923 tv series with Timothy Dalton as the sadistic wealthy mogul who likes to watch women get spanked until they die.

I want to live in the WNBA. Can I move to the WNBA? Do you have to play basketball to be a citizen of the WNBA?

😩 no

@dfmorgan.bsky.social fyi

Beyond Blue Highways What happens when women who read too much take a road trip.

I took a US road trip this year (in this van) and listened to the audiobook of Blue Highways, about a US road trip from 1978. Then I ask for reading recommendations. Who will save this genre?