Joy Connolly: “Americans have not lost trust in higher education because of scholar-activism or relativistic thinking, but because public investment in the system has shrunk, tuition is prohibitively expensive, and other priorities crowd out the student experience.” www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
www.chronicle.com
Its authors committed one of the faults they criticize most sharply, writes Joy Connolly.
This is a spectacular critique of the awful report. Thanks @johnkwilson.bsky.social
Celebrate Pride this #PrideMonth and throughout the year with this diverse collection of books exploring LGBTQ+ issues and perspectives.
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#PrideMonth #Pride #Bookstagram #BookLover #Books
Three great museum educator jobs at my favorite museum! 😁 “… one for each of the following halls: (1) David H. Koch Hall of Fossils – Deep Time; (2) Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals; and (3) Kenneth E. Behring Family Hall of Mammals.” trustcareers.si.edu/postings/1b8...
Princeton University Press
So right, a needless and disruptive change for NSF grant review. #highered #NSF #science #sciencefunding
Surely this is a bid to give small, conservative institutions power over large research universities? I can't imagine any NSF opportunity that wouldn't have at least one Berkeley submission.
An update on the American Diabetes Association drama 🍿
The editorial being handed out that got some scientists kicked out? Went from a few hundred views and downloads in May to >90K 💥💥💥
Can we make that number go up more?
diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
"This committee’s report would be terrible in the best of times, with its secret evidence and embarrassingly weak arguments compounded by a call for administrative repression. But to make these fantastical claims during the middle of a war against the humanities is a particularly dangerous delusion"
For the avoidance of doubt, this is not a high quality study, done by bold scientists seeking only truth. The IQs were Lynn's, obviously. And how was nose breadth measured? We have no idea, because that key detail is not worth mentioning
Where was all this outrage about the ideological capture of academic disciplines when psychologists **in 2014** were correlating the nose breadth of different races with IQ and arguing results proved Eurasians evolved higher intelligence than Africans?
Job Opening: Education Program Specialist, IS-1720-09 at National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
My column today for @insidehighered.com criticizes the new report on the decline of the #humanities and all its flaws.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
My column today for @insidehighered.com criticizes the new report on the decline of the #humanities and all its flaws.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Rebecca Sear
Rebecca Sear
Another handful of sand in the gears:
Researchers cannot serve on a panel *at all* if anyone from their institution has submitted to that panel. Recusing themselves for the proposal itself is no longer sufficient.
This is needless, but will certainly slow things up even further.
Another handful of sand in the gears:
Researchers cannot serve on a panel *at all* if anyone from their institution has submitted to that panel. Recusing themselves for the proposal itself is no longer sufficient.
This is needless, but will certainly slow things up even further.
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
"The belief that every field in the humanities is secretly controlled by social justice warriors has always been a false conspiracy theory, but to make these fantastical claims during the middle of a war against the humanities is a particularly dangerous delusion"
