Associate Vice President Research, Full Prof Political Science | Inclusive Research Excellence, Epistemic Pluralism | Coauthor, The Equity Myth (2017); CoEd, Critical Concepts:An Intro to Politics (2023); Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy (2022)
Dr. Malinda S. Smith
This is the way. We do not need to accept the right’s bad-faith and blatantly dishonest caricature of higher education. Colleges and universities regularly platform views across the political spectrum, perhaps more than any other American institution.
Linda Tuhiwai Smith — “Family, Community, and Land” podcast.show/tendingourro...
Thoughts on Canada:
“The Viewpoint Diversity Debate in Canadian Universities.” @universityaffairs.bsky.social universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-...
“La question de la diversité des points de vue dans les universités canadiennes” Affaires universitaires,“
www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion-fr/l...
How Higher Ed can Help Foster Hope and the Pluralism Dividend—Academica Forum
”higher education, agreement, consensus, disagreement, debate, dialogue, and deliberation are not interchangeable terms or relationships. Each names a distinct civic practice” #highered
forum.academica.ca/forum/illumi...
Pleased to share my new commentary:
How Higher Ed can Help Foster Hope the Pluralism Dividend — Academica Forum,
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Federal court blocks Alabama’s midterm gerrymandering plan, a blow for Republicans
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson — “The Coexistence of Creation and G… podcast.show/tendingourro...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
We lost one of the great ones today. RIP to the saxophone colossus, Sonny Rollins.
#SonnyRollins
#Jazz
#Musicsky
Il avait 60 ans. La cause du décès n’a pas été dévoilée.
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Malinda S Smith (University of Calgary) explains how higher ed institutions can play a critical role in fostering help to foster plural democracies and the pluralism dividend.
forum.academica.ca
The three-judge panel blocked the state from reimplementing its 2023 congressional maps they found as “tainted by intentional race-based discrimination.”
This week we’re Tending Our Roots with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, musician, and scholar. Leanne teaches through story, song, an…
“Viewpoint diversity” is a trap
For @table.media, I wrote about the Yale report on “Trust in Higher Education” – and why we will not be able to defend academic freedom by accepting the terms set by a rightwing campaign intended to impose reactionary rule.
Some thoughts, since it is in German:
US-Hochschulen üben Selbstkritik wegen mangelnder „viewpoint diversity“. Weshalb hinter diesem Begriff eine jahrzehntelange Kampagne gegen die Idee einer freien Universität und Gesellschaft steht, erk...
On this week’s episode of Tending Our Roots, we sit down with Māori scholar, Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou) — the grandmother of Indigenous research. …
“Viewpoint diversity” is a trap
For @table.media, I wrote about the Yale report on “Trust in Higher Education” – and why we will not be able to defend academic freedom by accepting the terms set by a rightwing campaign intended to impose reactionary rule.
Some thoughts, since it is in German:
US-Hochschulen üben Selbstkritik wegen mangelnder „viewpoint diversity“. Weshalb hinter diesem Begriff eine jahrzehntelange Kampagne gegen die Idee einer freien Universität und Gesellschaft steht, erk...
