yes! we don't talk about this enough! when I tell my students about pay disparities across departments/disciplines, their jaws hit the floor

LET'S GO!!

The thing is that this has been true for a long time. Thinking that liberal arts degrees are impractical is received wisdom that collapses under the slightest scrutiny. This claim is only "counterintuitive" if you have bad intuition about higher ed, and, accidentally and on purpose, most people do.

Supreme Court sides with Dana Nessel on Michigan Line 5 case Dana Nessel, Michigan attorney general, argued Enbridge waited too long to try to move a case regarding Line 5 to federal court.

finally someone tells Enbridge they have to follow the rules

ENG 3681 Hosts Oil Awareness Event With the school year coming to a close, Jeffery Insko’s Literature and the Environment class (ENG 3681) replaced a traditional final with a “Petro-Party.” The event invited others to explore what stud...

a nice little article in our campus newspaper about the "Petro Party" my students threw last week. oaklandpostonline.com/58182/campus...

I mean, Raging Bull?

my newest hot take is that low cost/no cost affordable course materials initiatives are well intentioned but misguided

my first arrangement of the season

jfc

not that everybody didn't already know this but kinda feeling extra glad this week that we included this as part of our AI essay. www.oakland.edu/cetl/teachin...

war is ecocide

dahlias ready for last frost

Faculty and staff supporting Higher Ed “initiatives” (six months after the provost has left for a better job)

The Madonna Wars here are like 2014 Twitter, the good old days.

ah! had forgotten all about that! ty

I mean yeah sure but it can SUMMARIZE stuff

adding the Interurban to my Infrastructure syllabus for fall.

this is great. thanks for sharing. Detroit to Muskegon!!

It’s like if Andrew Johnson had staked his presidency on preserving the US’s thriving whale oil economy, and started a war with Norway.

frisbee in position

Sun’s out, semester’s done, meadow’s burned, orchard’s pruned, dog and tequila nearby. Not a bad Friday.

Sociopaths

hot human endorsing this message

Moby-Dick (The Norton Library) , Moby-Dick (The Norton Library), Herman Melville, Jeffrey Insko, 9780393870794

they’re willing to do with the right kind of encouragement. Good edition, ahem, here wwnorton.com/books/978039...

Yes

This is really good. Strong work by the authors, and model for the kinds of awareness raising and advocacy (for our students, for real education) all of us in higher ed can do on our campuses.

ha! so much healthier, I promise!

I'm long ago lapsed but surely JDV is the best thing to happen to the Catholic Church in decades. So many mixed feelings!

that's good childhooding! we had no screen restrictions AND access to early HBO, so pretty much all bets were off.

omg please tell me you still have that!