President @michaelhgavin.bsky.social was a superb guest today: thoughtful, direct, inspiring.
Recording coming soon.
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able to secure employment. As I’ve learned from the activist and organizer Mariame Kaba, that realization can either break you or liberate you. If most of us are going to stay, then it’s up to us to find allies and work together to save ourselves."
Too much of higher ed is focused on gatekeeping rather than net building. We need to bring more students in and find ways to fund them. The current federal budget proposals are threatening to keep students out. The @alliancehighered.bsky.social has tools to advocate for all.
@bakerdphd.bsky.social Dominique Baker--a member of Alliance for Higher Education's Knowledge for Democracy Collective--does it again. "No other country will come and save U.S. higher education. A minority of faculty, of those willing to leave, will be
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Much of sports and society analysis rightly focuses on protests of black and women athletes in particular moments: 1968 with Tommie Smith & John Carlos; Ali & Vietnam War, eg. What happens when an authoritarian comes to see the @ny-knicks.bsky.social play a team with a coaching legacy of Popovich
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Over the decades the president‘s presence has served as a mythological unifier for better or worse until tonight.
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A lot can be said for how sports has allowed groups from disparate view points enter into conversations about race, gender, sexuality, and more. Can it do the same with authoritarianism? @espn.com
Mike Gavin
Mike Gavin
Thank you @edufuturist.bsky.social for hosting me today--such a great group of thinkers and a great forum. I appreciate the opportunity to join you!
