For those hereabouts scrambling to remediate course materials in order to meet the end of the month deadline for compliance with new federal ADA Title II standards, here is the endgame as I see it: 🧵
So sad to hear this news. Some of my favorite classes at Texas were in the American Studies department
Friends: @moderniststudies.bsky.social and @sharpweb.org are teaming up for a non-guaranteed panel on “Modernism in Ephemeral Print” at MLA 2027, in LA. Consider submitting!
I'm begging us to stop playing gotcha on people living in southern states. Every person on this planet, regardless of what side of a river or ocean they were arbitrarily born on, deserves access to education and information.
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
Literary scholars too!
The Harlem Renaissance and/in Periodicals
American Literature Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, May 20-23, 2026
Organized by the Research Society for American Periodicals
The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.🗃️
Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
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Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.
Just a reminder that tenure-track professors are usually paid 9 months out of 12, and that adjuncts are usually paid on a by-class basis, and none of that includes prep time or, for example, having to have your syllabus posted *45 days before the class*. Many folks are not *employed* then.
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Governors of Arizona, Illinois, Maine and North Carolina on Friday joined the growing list of Democratic officials who have signed orders intended to ensure most residents can receive COVID-19 vaccines at pharmacies without individual prescriptions.
lot of people out here laboring under the misapprehension that uni is just further high school and there is some higher authority on content than the professor who is a live, working researcher in the field
Anti-DEI groups claim they belong to the public. University leaders say they are faculty members' intellectual property. A look at the copyright debate.
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My job now is to go school to school, university to university trying to help them sort through the challenge of teaching in a world with AI and the first thing I recommend to improve the teaching of writing is cut the number of students per instructor in half. No one is going to do that, though.
say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
BREAKING: @theassemblync.bsky.social obtained an email in which UNC-Chapel Hill's ex-provost said Chancellor Lee Roberts agreed to the Board of Trustees’ controversial move to delay tenure votes for financial reasons.
From me & @themhartman.bsky.social
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"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week."
--Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless
I'm entering my 25th year in the job, having taught for 4 years at Yale and 20 at Berkeley.
The clearest trendline in my experience (fwiw) is the *dramatically* diminished willingness or capacity of undergrads to read. I used to assign 150 pp./week. Closer to 40 now—and even that is aspirational.
(Ostensibly, my youngest daughter’s middle name is Alice because that was my grandmother’s middle name and her paternal grandmother’s first name, but I can’t say this Alice - or Carroll’s at any rate - wasn’t a factor too)
Certainly true a couple weeks ago at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society conference in New York!
@eetempleton.bsky.social @kirkcurnutt.bsky.social @pipmcgowan.bsky.social @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social @rosstangedal.bsky.social
(& many others!)
This morning, we're seeing a number of road closures due to high water. Please be advised that the following roads are currently impacted:
Portions of Old Oxford Rd
Moores Mill Rd
Roxboro Rd near the Person County Line
John Jones Rd
Snow Hill Rd
Yes, she knows to sit on my left, but there are only 4 of us. OTOH, my mother came from a family of 5 children, 3 of whom were lefties, so holiday dinners always involved a complex seating chart!
I, a righty, didn’t learn about left-handed scissors until my left-handed daughter was 4, and she spend the week after I bought her a pair delightedly using them on anything I’d let her!
The child in this trustee’s scenario? Faculty. Who submitted their tenure files for consideration in accordance with the terms of their employment. Both sides have a responsibility in that contract, one to submit and one to review.
I hope everyone really hears this.
UNC's board has belatedly confirmed faculty's tenure awards, but made some incredibly alarming remarks along the way. On public outcry to the board's silence, one trustee wrote, "It is not good governance to give your child a cookie every time they lay on the floor and scream that they want one."
Some UNC-Chapel Hill faculty say they are concerned about a recent Board of Trustees decision—or, rather, non-decision—on faculty tenure and promotion cases.
www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...
Something's up (down?) at #UNC.
The Bd of Trustees, which has authority over tenure decisions, tabled all at its March mtg & re-tabled all from the College of Arts & Sciences & the non-health professional schools (Law, Biz, etc) at its next mtg. All w/o explanation.
#AcademicSky #academicfreedom
