I'll fg "The Humanities" are on the chopping block because we simply do not fit neoliberal economic models, which emphasize large student-to-professor ratios. Fed & private funding for humanities is in its death throes, so they can't skim off our grants. Furthermore...

Oilers twitter usually provides enough material for an entire course on neoliberal ideologies of accountability, meritocracy, talent-exceptionalism, and managerial competency. But this year--theres often enough in a single day.

A lot of people who decided to run the university like a business are discovering that they can no longer lead it like a community

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It's tiiiime! I'm recruiting for my PhD study on #CoreFrench teachers who learned French as a second language and now are teaching French! If this is you, please consider joining me! SurveyMonkey.ca/r/InterestCF More info:

Last night, I ran into a student who took my Lit and Environment course as an option last year (he's not an English major), and he said my course got him "back into reading again." It truly made my day.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but a high failure rate is not a flex and hazing isn’t cool. ⬇️

It's really common to come across people in tech, natural and computational science, etc. who are mad at colleagues in other disciplines for not grading rigorously, but who are silent when college labor practices explicitly turn those disciplines into customer service depts.

Laurentian University has named its new president sudbury.com/local-news/lau…

Thinking more on the student-prof communications thing and I just come back to the fundamentally dishonest nature of virtually all official communications in and from the university as it currently exists. Hard to blame people for picking up on norms, I guess

The Liberals need to call this "Max the Snacks."

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We live in the world where downsizing and perpetual restructuring have almost completely naturalized the political decision to abandon education as a social good. We can still sense the moral problem, but it increasingly feels quaint to do otherwise.

The developer initially planned to begin development in 2013, and now promises to begin development by 2029. sudbury.com/local-news/cit…

Fatima 𓂆 فاطمة 🇵🇸 University of Alberta Our students deserve better from the university. We need a return to earlier ideals of shared governance as a compact between students and professors. Universities are for students. If students demand transparency and action, the university must listen.

When your university no longer serves the community, it’s time to change the leadership #SaveUofG Statement from Mayor Guthrie about University of Guelph 2024 Fall semester housing options - City of Guelph guelph.ca/2024/06/statem…

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A 16c printed book I'm working on has this comment written on one of the pages. I can't make it out. Any ideas? Prof Tracey Hill