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Sharon Yam (任萃言)
sharonyamsy
1/ ICE’s new policy on international students illustrates the interconnectedness among nationalism, capitalism, xenophobia, ableism, and racism. 2/ Trump has been mobilizing anti-China, anti-immigrant, and white supremacist discourse to g
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Alexandra Mihai
Anda19
With so many things out of our control these days, one thing we *can* do is show our students we care. This doesn't mean lowering our standards, on the contrary,
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Nikki Hessell
NikkiHessell
Thread: Universities are worlds of creativity, analysis, and growth - we face a catastrophic shrinking of those worlds unless university management, academics, and students stand in SOLIDARITY against decades of
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Mari Lewis
MariCLewis
In a departure from sport-related tweets I want talk about teaching online during a pandemic, and how a lot of what I see is really worrying to me. Teaching during
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Miriam Gershow
miriamgershow
Why are faculty still posting about “working harder” to create online classes, and therefore students need to stop asking for tuition reductions? A thread. 1/5 Student tuition $ has never
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Deb Gesualdo🌹
MissDebGee
The start of the school year will be upon us before we all know it and the state has given no clear path forward for safe and healthy re-entry to
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punkacademic
punk_academic
If anyone had any doubt that the intention of the marketisation project was to set up students and staff in opposition to one another as adversaries in a consumer system,
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David J. Trowbridge
DTrowbridge7
Ten minutes of grading papers will reassure anyone who fears that universities are indoctrinating students that they are vastly overestimating our influence. For my birthday weekend, I wrote detailed feedback
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Dr. Mia Brett
QueenMab87
I’m seeing people say the rest of the school year needs to be canceled bec distance learning increases educational disparities for poor students w/o computers & internet access but that
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Rachel
rlawsum
Watching so many teachers go through the struggle of “but if I can’t grade it how will I make them do it/learn it?” Folks it can be done. Students want
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Shannon Burns, PhD(!)
shannon47burns
Going into fall, I really hope academics are evaluating ways their new online instruction policies may be ableist. Online classes are hard, ESPECIALLY for students with learning disabilities, on the
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Disabled Students UK
ChangeDisabled
For PhD students continuing their studies it is important that disability support is put in place. Especially as many disabled PhD students have an increased vulnerability to the virus and
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Dr. Steven W. Thrasher
thrasherxy
Been thinking about why they going after critical race theory as indoctrination.I think they hate that CRT (& other theories) are NOT indoctrination, but approaches for thinking.They prefer a "teacher
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Ana Rosado
CarminRosado
the president of northwestern had more smoke for students protesting for Black lives then he did for actual racists in his emails “committing to social justice” over the summer. he
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Jamis
JamesAlfiscar
Some people are good in books and memorization, some are good public speaking and recitation. More often students are graded in a fixed grading system where they have to attain
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Deborah Levine
debbylevine
Finalizing my syllabus for an intro to US health policy course that starts next week. Amused by how many readings/discussions that used to take weeks of staging and scaffolding on
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