The key point of this article that's lost in the headline: The university's valuing of the humanities and efforts to help them adapt and flourish in tandem with CS (and STEM majors more generally).

“Asking tough questions about ourselves, about our past, is central to democracy. It makes us stronger." For American Historical Association, @km_hilliard and six other historians explain the importance of teaching #UncomfortableHistory. youtube.com/watch?v=LdcoBQ…

You might think historians would want to have all college students learn US history. And you'd be right, WE DO - BUT not mandated by the state in this way. Let history profs, professionals, civics curriculum best practices as well as universities make those curricular decisions.

Thank you to Times Higher Education for the opportunity to share these reflections!

Great thread--just forbidding ChatGPT won't work. But talking it through with students will help us all figure out better approaches.

France’s ad for the Women’s World Cup. Chills. 🔥 x.com/838_carlisle/s…

A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll of Ohio shows the amendment guaranteeing access to reproductive services backed by a double-digit margin: 58%-32%. Significant support crosses partisan lines — including a third of Republicans and a stunning 85% of independent women.

An absolute must read. “While Florida wants kids to learn how Black people benefited from being enslaved, there is no benchmark that requires students to examine how every white person benefited from living in an economy built on free labor.” thegrio.com/2023/07/27/flo…

“Nobody cares about the mental state of moms until you hear about it on the news when they’re already gone or the baby is gone.” 1 in 5 new moms in the US suffer from mood and anxiety disorders, yet studies show a majority of them aren’t able to get help. wsj.com/articles/mothe…

A quick personal reflection on what seemed like the one line that was out of place in the Barbie Movie. Thanks to Grown and Flown! grownandflown.com/moms-dont-have…

"Tenured full professors must ... stand up against those who would wish to see the standing and impact of our educational institutions eroded, our programs devalued, and our colleagues marginalized and silenced. Anything less is a gross dereliction of professional duty."

After a whole movie about a mother leading the fight to save what is good about Barbieland, the lesson of the movie is that mothers have to stand still? I don't think so, and I'll tell you why. grownandflown.com/moms-dont-have…

"The future of higher education looks bleak... Students at state schools will receive the education that the oligarchs want them to, based on their largesse." thenation.com/article/societ…

"Many of the programs potentially facing the ax are those that grant students the greatest possibility for socioeconomic mobility." slate.com/human-interest…

Gee in 2016: "The World Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics Department [is] increasingly vital in this world. [Our campus has] students from over 110 countries, we speak over 100 languages." Gee in 2023: lol sorry just use Duolingo

PhD position in medieval history (church and religiosity) AHKR Det humanistiske fakultet jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

How do we teach history at Ohio State? A distinguished professor explains. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/09/06/how… Prof. Randy Roth via Ohio Capital Journal. bsky @ohiocapitaljournal.com Arts and Sciences at Ohio State Ohio State

"in higher education, meetings are more than meetings. They’re not just tools for getting our work done. Meetings are what the anthropologist Helen B. Schwartzman calls “sense making” events" chronicle.com/article/how-to… Allison M. Vaillancourt Inside Higher Ed #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

Watching Elon Musk decide to play investigative reporter has made me think that the tradition of aging rich men spending all their time and money racing yachts actually had an important function