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1) Some thoughts about faculty governance in higher ed. and being in the position to change things for the better. ... 2) Actually governing and running a college is complicated

1) I will try to make something constructive out of this dispute. The moral of the story is: sectarian approaches to discipline are mostly destructive and obsolete. ...https://twitter.com/AaronRHanlon/status/1316711627018862593 2) Theater

1) Something to add to this excellent @JamesFallows piece in @TheAtlantic (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/media-mistakes/616222/) on the point of how the Trump movement exploits propriety: 2) I think this is connected wit

1) There’s an under-appreciated point in this essay about one of those things the left and right fight over but actually agree on and are both wrong about: that reason

1) Unfortunately I have something to say about the 2+2 = 5 affair, or perhaps more about love of learning and love of knowledge and attitudes most conducive to these.

1) It's not the profound lesson I wanted to learn from all this, but one thing Trumpism + pandemic have taught me is that the US has a much higher

1) I regret to inform you I have thoughts about 'cancel culture.' The first is... 2) When people call something a 'culture' it's good reason to be on guard. 'Culture'

1) I'm seeing lots of angry replies to this extremely ill-conceived proposal, and many such replies are some version of 'but what about the faculty??' Nobody cares about the faculty.

1) Some thoughts on a phenomenon: The academic who openly advocates against other academic disciplines. ... 2) I understand why some academics would think their subject is more important or

1) Not in the mood to do it, but this is a thread on the assumptions baked into three claims: (a) universities subsidize the humanities; (b) higher-income students pursue English

1) This is good and informative. I want to add something about a component of what this reporting reveals, which is the view that tenured faculty don't know or care

1/2) You wouldn't think it, but one of my best advising assets as a professor now is the fact that I went to college to run track and before I