Kristin

What’s happening at Plymouth State is terrible and has gotten very little media coverage

www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

Jonathan Couser: Concord must stop strangling our state colleges PLYMOUTH STATE’s campus is in an uproar, and the overall mood is grim. Students are protesting in response to news that the administration is contemplating cutting 18% of its full-time

Thank you for drawing attention to this! From my colleague at PSU:

Helpful to share with your friends and family in RED states especially. DoE is essential for so many families and kids. Schools make our communities better.

Introducing Academic Freedom on the Line A newsletter published by fellows at the AAUP's Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom

@biblioracle.bsky.social and fellows at @aaup.bsky.social's Center for the Defense of Higher Education have published the first issue our newsletter "Academic Freedom on the Line." Come check it out. And subscribe. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/introducin...

Transgender female athletes can still compete in Maine, sports governing body says The Maine Principal's Association will continue to allow transgender female athletes to compete despite President Donald Trump's executive order.

The Maine Principal’s Association said it will continue to allow transgender female athletes to compete despite an executive order from President Donald Trump that seeks to ban the practice.

I’m sharing this again because it’s just that good. Take this:

“Neither X nor Bluesky should be anyone’s political home. If we are not intentional about participating in purposeful political environments, we risk having our political energy absorbed by the culture of performing disapproval.”

"Maybe when it comes to education reform, big ideas don’t matter. There will never be a structure or a technology or a method that is more powerful than the environment in which it is applied."

Image of a hand holding a coffee cup surrounded by fire; text: ‘twas the strike before Christmas, Dec. 20-24th

🚨BOYCOTT STARBUCKS🚨

Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store between Dec. 20 -Dec. 24 while the workers are on strike! Here’s how to support: x.com/sbworkersuni...

I don't know if they host events, but Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick is great. And if you make it to Lewiston, check out the Maine MILL (Museum of Innovation, Labor, & Learning).

Everything America does to cut off its nose to spite its face is to hurt Black people first and women second. If you keep that in mind everything makes sense

Students who haven’t mastered foundational writing skills shouldn’t be using AI.

Going to school and using AI to do your assignments is like going to a gym and getting a robot to do your workouts--it doesn't help you and it wastes other people's time and resources.

"Writing faculty have both the agency and the academic freedom to examine generative AI’s dishonest training origins and conclude: There is no path to ethically teach AI skills. Not only are we allowed to say no, we ought to think deeply about the why of that no."

"Here the numbers as they actually exist in the real world:

Transgender: 1 percent

Muslim: 1 percent

Jewish: 2 percent

Black: 12 percent

Live in New York City: 2 percent

Gay or lesbian: 3 percent"

If they're this divorced from reality I guarantee these folks cannot conceive magnitude of $1bn

I teach in the English department. One of the courses they removed was “Women in Literature.” Too “narrow,” I suppose.

Ah, yes, it’s those pesky grad students making less than $50k a year in one of the most expensive metropolitan areas in the country who are to blame for austerity and the collapse of the humanities.

I am begging people to read Combahee River Collective Statement before “identity politics” goes the way of “woke”

www.blackpast.org/african-amer...

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It’s not true that there are “two warring camps” in the Democratic Party coalition trying to exclude one another’s messages. The feminist and anti-racist elements have never been hostile to the economic populism messaging. The hostility is exclusively the other way around.

Since there seem to be a lot of new professors on Bluesky, I'll re-share this link to the AAUP's "Organize Every Campus" campaign. This is a critical time for faculty to organize in defense of our students, ourselves and co-workers, and the institutions we believe in. Join us!

Awesome, thank you!

Hello! This is my first post (to prove I'm human). I teach English and WGSS at a state school in New England. I love books, dogs, and labor unions. Nice to be here with y'all!