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Posts by Brendon M. Soltis

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A Descriptive Social Network Analysis of Indigenous Well-Being Support Through the Human and More-Than-Human Relations of Native American College Women This research employs an egocentric social network analysis to describe the well-being social support networks of six Native American college women at one Midwestern university. Amid rising concern...

my newest qualitative research highlights the beautiful human and more-than-human relationships that sustain Indigenous well-being for Native college women. I encourage all to consider the relational power of integrating space, place, people, and land.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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“Copy and Paste” Practices: A Multi-Site Critical Discourse Analysis of Arguments About Anti-DEI Legislation This manuscript presents the results of a critical discourse analysis designed to investigate how legislators and other actors leverage discursive strategies to frame the need for/impacts of state-...

Sharing my new article w/@crystalegarcia.bsky.social & @drantonioduran.bsky.social in the Journal of Higher Education (50 free at link). We conducted a critical discourse analysis of the arguments used in several states for/against anti-DEI legislation in '23-24.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XRP9D...

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<em>Reading Research Quarterly</em> | ILA Literacy Journal | Wiley Online Library While much of the research on censorship and book banning rightly emphasizes efforts to silence and erase people who do not identify as white cis-heteronormative men, the role of colonialism in the c...

This article was a labor of love, & I’m so glad it’s published! It’s OPEN ACCESS, so please feel free to download and share!

Article Link: ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#Literacies #EnglishEducation #Colonialism #TextSelection #Afrofuturism #AcademicSky #EduSky

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Photo by Ethan Wong. Me at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library

Photo by Ethan Wong. Me at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library

Columbia canceled my class on Race and Media, but I'm teaching it anyway.

All thanks to people power and community support-- especially from you all on Bluesky!

Happy to announce I'll be teaching Race Media and International Affairs 101 online-- hosted by D.C.'s MLK Jr. Memorial Library!

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Purdue Cuts Off Student Paper Citing Institutional Neutrality Purdue University has ended a long-standing partnership with its independent student newspaper, The Purdue Exponent, and will no longer distribute papers, give student journalists free parking passes ...

Purdue is trying to ban the student newspaper from using the university's name in its title and ending preferred campus access--in the name of institutional neutrality.

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🎉🎉🎉 yay!

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Excited to announce my book from #Routledge #TaylorandFrancis is available to pre-order! I received my copy today and am looking forward to folks reading about rural, poor and working-class students in higher ed and policy/practice to support their degree attainment!

tinyurl.com/RuralPoorWor...

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A Return to Racial Quotas in College Admission? (opinion) The Trump administration seems to view “too many” Black and Hispanic students at a selective college as cause for suspicion, David Hawkins writes.

David Hawkins clearly lays out what many of us knew would follow SFFA decisions: use of segregationist logic to argue that any increase in student racial & ethnic diversity from pre-SFFA levels is evidence of illegal admissions practices. Effectively, benchmarking data to cap representation.

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Yes please

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

I have a new AERA Open article on the prevalence and effects of differential tuition policies at public universities. About half of public universities have adopted differential tuition, but any benefits of increased completions disproportionately flow to White students. Check it out!

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@drjgutz.bsky.social and I are looking forward to your abstracts due at the end of this month!

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Changes in the College Mobility Pipeline Since 1900 Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

This depressing new NBER working paper finds that while the returns to a college education are still clearly positive for everyone, the benefits for students from lower-income families have declined over time due to fewer resources going to regional institutions.

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MSU researchers, administrators cope with estimated $82 million lost in funding cuts - The State News One semester into Donald Trump's presidency, MSU has lost millions in federal funding to research. The cuts have left faculty and administrators grappling with what this means for the future of resear...

"MSU [Michigan State University] researchers, administrators cope with estimated $82 million lost in funding cuts - The State News"

An important read about the chaos brought on by the current administration for no discernible reason.

statenews.com/article/2025...

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Leadership Through a Dual Lens: A Bi-Racial CEO’s Perspective My cultural identity, as both Black and Korean, is shaped by the traditions, values, and experiences I have embraced within my family and the communities that raised me.

This is a very compelling and interesting reading about the mutiple racial locations of multiracility and the ways in which it is informs leadership as a strengths-based asset. Much of this reflects my current and emerging research about multiracial students.
www.diverseeducation.com/opinion/arti...

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Harvard Will Not Fund Affinity Group Graduation Celebrations Following Ed Department Warning | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard will no longer host or fund affinity group celebrations during Commencement, the University’s former diversity office wrote in an email to affinity groups on Monday afternoon.

“Harvard is leading the resistance”

Meanwhile the Harvard Black Alumni Society is asking Black alums to donate money to pay for what costs Harvard pocket change because Harvard ain’t resisting shit

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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‘We All Talk to Spirits When We Are Identified as Numbers’ Tony Koji Wallin-Sato’s poetry asks what it means to be free and reckons with the legacy of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Tony Koji Wallin-Sato’s poetry asks what it means to be free and reckons with the legacy of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

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Garvey, J. C., Davis Simpfenderfer, A., Dolan, C. V., Lalwani, A., & Jackson, R. (2025). The Influence of Opportunity, Information, and Time on Queer and Trans Student Postsecondary Enrollment. The Journal of Higher Education, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2025.2488716

Garvey, J. C., Davis Simpfenderfer, A., Dolan, C. V., Lalwani, A., & Jackson, R. (2025). The Influence of Opportunity, Information, and Time on Queer and Trans Student Postsecondary Enrollment. The Journal of Higher Education, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2025.2488716

Important paper just dropped “The Influence of Opportunity, Information, and Time on Queer and Trans Student Postsecondary Enrollment” by @romeojackson.bsky.social & colleagues.
Check it out here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly. Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

This is a great article from @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social that he should not have needed to write.

I long for the day when race scholars don’t have to respond to people who have no clue what they are talking about, but nonetheless feel free to pontificate. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

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Major Education Resource Set to Shut Down This Week The federal Department of Education maintains an open access database of more than 2 million documents dating back to the 1960s. It will cease operating Wednesday due to DOGE cuts.

The loss of ERIC is tragic and will negatively impact novice and emerging researchers. It will be harder for many of doctoral students to locate research.

www.governing.com/policy/major...

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Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway. This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!

Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.

Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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The Uses of Diversity | Columbia University Press Race, it is widely understood, is a social category that has no genetic basis, yet biological notions of race keep reemerging. Attempts to redress disparitie... | CUP

New Jonathan Kahn dropping in June!!!! 🧪 #BookSky

cup.columbia.edu/book/the-use...

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It’s been a challenge for sure, slow going, lots of follow up needed. I definitely feel the chilling effect of participating in the research I do.

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“Values are only as good as their durability under pressure; and many of America’s largest companies proved an equitable, inclusive workplace was never one of their core values to begin with.”

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*******New Publication Alert******

I am excited to share my newest article on the experiences of colleges students as Persons Who Stutter. This appears in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. We used crip theory to amplify their personal narratives.

psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

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(1/3) Publication Announcement!

I am thrilled to share: "A systematic literature review on disabled queer and trans college student scholarship," co-authored with my mentors @drantonioduran.bsky.social and
Dr. Ryan Miller, now available in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.

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Criminal justice as racialized organizations: Evidence from ethnographies of police, courts, and jails Criminology has long grappled with the relationship between race/racism and the criminal justice system. In this article, we build on past critiques and demonstrate how scholars of the criminal legal...

This looks great from @hschoenfeld.bsky.social, Chas Walker, and Marielis Rosa.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Text: The new vice provost, appointed by Columbia, will review curriculum, nontenure faculty hiring and leadership "to ensure the educational offerings are comprehensive and balanced."

Text: The new vice provost, appointed by Columbia, will review curriculum, nontenure faculty hiring and leadership "to ensure the educational offerings are comprehensive and balanced."

We need a name for this person. The vice provost for authoritarian compliance?

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Once again: They are not "rolling back DEI initiatives" they are capitulating to a segregationist agenda.

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