Alexandrea J. Ravenelle

Stopped by the @ucpress.bsky.social
table at @asanews.bsky.social
#asa2025 and discovered my book was a Choice Outstanding Academic Titles 2024 for Work and Labor

www.choice360.org/choice-pick/...

After Delay, Chapel Hill Board Votes to Award Tenure After faculty raised alarm over the board’s delay on the decisions, trustees finally debated and voted by email. A couple of them said they generally opposed tenure.

I thought my dossier was about getting tenure 🥳

Apparently it was a temper tantrum over cookies 🤯

“Not good governance to give your child a cookie every time they lay on the floor and scream that they want one...”
tinyurl.com/UNC25tenure

(Also, who governs their kids?)

The child in this trustee’s scenario? Faculty. Who submitted their tenure files for consideration in accordance with the terms of their employment. Both sides have a responsibility in that contract, one to submit and one to review.

I hope everyone really hears this.

Update: UNC has now granted tenure to these 30+ faculty.

Thank you to everyone for their supportive messages and re-posting. It has been a rollercoaster.
bot.unc.edu/approved-per...

UNC has now granted tenure to the 30+ faculty who were deferred.

Thank you to everyone who reached out or reposted.
bot.unc.edu/approved-per...

Thank you. This was definitely not a situation that any of us expected.

Thank you.

It’s a challenging time.

Thanks David! We’re starting to hear rumblings of potential action…🤞

Thanks Brendan.

As one of the deferred faculty, I am very concerned.

UNC-Chapel Hill Has Delayed Tenure Votes in Most Departments This Spring UNC-Chapel Hill trustees didn't approve tenure cases outside of health-related schools at the last two meetings.

Some UNC-Chapel Hill faculty say they are concerned about a recent Board of Trustees decision—or, rather, non-decision—on faculty tenure and promotion cases.

www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

Thank you Karen.

There’s a strong sense of shock & disbelief & uncertainty among the asst professors.

UNC faculty concerned over lack of tenure for professors WRAL has obtained a letter from the faculty chair to the dean and chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill expressing concern about a lack of tenure for certain professors.

I’m one of 20 assistant professors in A&S at UNC who has had their tenure decision deferred.

I was planning to spend my summer editing my third book. Now? 🤷🏻‍♀️

www.wral.com/video/unc-fa...

Hiring season is over for this year, but UNC will be completely unable to hire tenured scholars from other universities (with the possible exception of Texas and Florida) until they resolve this.

Thank you Kim. I appreciate it.

UNC-Chapel Hill hasn't granted tenure to any faculty outside Health Sciences all year. Faculty are in limbo. The BoT is simply refusing to consider the cases put forward.

It's clear the board is testing the waters to see if they can get away with what is essentially a pocket veto on faculty tenure.

I’m one of these faculty members.

Massive march outside New York Public Library in midtown Manhattan

Massive march in New York today to protect migrants and protect the planet #april19

We went to this today as a whole family activity.

Traffic management was handled by volunteers/organizers and the march was peaceful.

Next time I need the @riseandresist.bsky.social song book!

AmeriCorps is where I wrote my first funding proposal — which helped me to get a job after MA graduation as a grants manager. It’s how I paid down the first $4800 of my student loans.

My career today draws a direct line from my AmeriCorps Promise Fellows service.

50501 — 50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement Join the movement to uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach. 50 protests, 50 states, 1 day: #50501.

Two weeks ago protests in NYC filled 20 blocks. Other cities and states counted tens of thousands. Find out about your local marches here: www.fiftyfifty.one

I hope you join us.
@americorps.bsky.social
@asanews.bsky.social @americorpsalumni.bsky.social

We’re protesting the pointless opportunity-killing cruelty of this administration. We’re protesting the treatment of immigrants and civil servants and the scapegoating of anyone who dares to be different.

There are marches this Saturday across the country. And I’m bringing my kids and we’re marching. It’ll be our first march. But I can’t sit this out any longer.

My branch, Promise Fellows, was charged in bringing the five promises to America’s youth: 1 caring adults to guide and encourage them; 2 safe places; 3 a healthy start in the form of proper nutrition and exercise; 4 effective education and 5 opportunities to help others

This is a program that was a major component of President Bush’s call to national service and volunteerism. My branch was chaired by Colin Powell. It’s bipartisan. And it’s being dismantled.

In the federal budget, this isn’t even a rounding error. It’s couch cushion change. And the potential impact can be huge — on the young people who serve and on the communities that benefit.

I “served” (we weren’t allowed to call it work) 1700 hours in a year. And I was paid $16,000 for that year. That’s $9.41 an hour.
At orientation we were told if we had dependents, we automatically qualified for food stamps during our federal service.

AmeriCorps is where I wrote my first funding proposal — which helped me to get a job as a grants manager after my MA graduation. It’s how I earned the money to help pay for my move to NY, and how I paid down the first $4800 or so of my student loans (education award for completion).

My projects collected more than 100 promises of support from local businesses. We made hundreds of servings of food, using donated ingredients, and delivered it to soup kitchens and needy families.

DOGE Guts AmeriCorps, Agency That Organizes Community Service Programs (Gift Article) Employees of AmeriCorps who were put on administrative leave include all those who work for a national disaster response program.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

I was an AmeriCorps Promise Fellow during my first stint of grad school. I organized hundreds of kids in community service projects that I created — Pizza with Pizzaz and Lasagna with Love.