Whitney Blankenship, Ph.D

Good luck! Academic job searches are brutal.

Saw it yesterday but didn’t have time to read. I was afraid that it would be a hit piece just from the title.

#solidarity

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For me it was 43. 40 didn’t bother me, but 43 was just weird. My best guess was it related to my BIL sudden death at 43. This year I’ll be 60 and it feels a lot like 43.

Now I have to go buy books. The to be read stack is getting out of hand!

No they don’t! I think it speaks to the mindset of colonial New England at the time and the power of his words to conjure vivid pictures without theatrics. It’s always fascinated me.

Fun fact: Despite his fiery wording, Edward’s was described as always preaching in a monotone while staring at the bell rope at the back of the church. And yet his words still moved people to cry out and faint during his sermons.

Was looking thru videos today for my US survey class. So much trash to dig thru. Crash Course is my go to, along w/PBS. Thanks for the other recs!

We gave up n yard after months of triple digits last summer. It is currently a nice shade of beige. Plants are also on their own. Miraculously they have all stayed alive.

Yikes! I did not expect that from USHMM.

I actually took it so now I’m on their mailing list. 36 questions, the first four or five blatantly ideological, then random facts and court cases. I passed, but I see it as a dubious honor.😂

My version is the teacher look; equally effective. If needed follow up with the teacher voice.

AAUP President Denounces Planned Cuts at the University of Oregon The AAUP stands with the United Academics of the University of Oregon in protesting the administration's plan to slash multiple departments and programs and fire faculty.

“The specific cuts [at University of Oregon] reflect a misunderstanding of the essential reasons for the existence of the university. Cuts in teaching & research should always be a last resort, after budgets for administration, athletics, & other nonacademic programs.” www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...

TRS-80 in 1984, senior year of HS. Learned BASIC. Graduated to an Apple IIE in college. Hubby is a programmer so we’ve always had computers in the house.

I taught and did my doctorate at the same time, albeit without kids. You’ll get into a rhythm which makes it easier. Summer courses are nice b/c you aren’t teaching. Hard part was transitioning from taking classes to diss research. You’ve got this! DM anytime to vent🙂

More of this . . .

He should check out a polar projection if he wants to be really shook.

I sat thru a lot of crappy pd during staff week. So glad I am out of secondary Ed after 21 yrs. Higher Ed can be bad, but nothing like this! Congrats on retirement!!

I'll say it a thousand times -- any account of the past that only celebrates the good parts of a nation without reckoning with the bad is not what we call "history"

It is propaganda, pure and simple.

It is a never ending cycle just to keep up w/work in my own area, much less every ancillary thread. The realization is good; but knowing I’ll never catch up makes me sad. Even so I’m still reading and researching knowing it is a futile endeavor. I’ll die trying tho’!

Got most of my college dorm stuff using green stamps. Sheets, bedspread, appliances. There were a lot of stamps involved!

This makes perfect sense!

Chinese Exclusion Act 2.0

Oh man, I hope not…

Like red/wine or the burgundy. The burgundy would probably show less dirt.

I’m full time CC now and this definitely rings true!

Basically anyone running in the south is going to mention faith/religion regardless of the strength of said faith. It’s just expected.

This! Increasingly my institution treats faculty work as a traditional 40 hour work week. I plan on being strictly 8-5 this year; no weekend/evening work if I can avoid it. 5 more years to retirement.