The course was actually English 360 and it was taught over the summer.

Well, the reality is our course descriptions are only a few sentences long. They can’t nearly go through every single thing that will be covered in a course over 15 weeks. If that’s the standard, they can fire every professor in the state of Texas.

It was, however, in the approved syllabi that was posted online.

When faculty talked about these syllabi being posted online would end up being something that would be used to target professors this situation at Texas A&M is what they meant. This is part of the fired professor's syllabus. It clearly shows the course covers transgender topics.

Course load was too high for tenure track. She was teaching 5 courses in the fall before firing.

Here's the course syllabi front page and part were it says transgender issues were part of the reading.

It’s not that reality and history are being rewritten… but that they’re being essentially erased by a flood of bullshit that functions as a pervasive noise, rendering it harder and harder to find the signal.

Ex-Google exec says degrees in law and medicine are a waste of time because they take so long to complete that AI will catch up by graduation “Higher education as we know it is on the verge of becoming obsolete,” the former Google AI leader told Fortune.

This might be one of the worst takes about AI that I've read recently. Talk to me when accuracy is over 60%. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

My university is rolling out a whole suite of AI tools “aligned with institutional values.” One of them promises to help you brainstorm new ideas, draft writing, etc.

I’m losing my mind. Faculty were not consulted on any of this. I am on the relevant faculty committees and nada.

Many U.S. Colleges May Close Without Immigrants And International Students, Report Finds Many U.S. colleges and universities may be forced to close without immigrants, international students and the children of immigrants

This is the truth. We have the best universities in the world right now and essentially export education.
This is so shortsighted.

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Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
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It’s much easier to complain and try to change the narrative than acknowledge your party’s actions made this situation worse.

NOAA Hurricane Hunter layoffs threaten to degrade hurricane forecasts » Yale Climate Connections A gap in flight director staffing could keep the planes earthbound at crucial times.

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/03/noaa...

Mass layoffs at Atlanta-based CDC spread shock The shock waves are spreading after more than 1,000 employees at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were fired over the weekend.

Improving the economy one step at a time? www.ajc.com/news/health-...

Breaking the Law Just weeks in, the Trump administration has violated rules, laws, and the Constitution.

Ignore the media headlines reporting that freezing federal spending or shuttering federal agencies “raise questions” or “push boundaries.” It’s an anticonstitutional lawbreaking spree.

UCD’s Belfield Campus

Our School is hiring two Assistant Professors (Ad Astra Fellows): five-year tenure-track positions with an annual research budget of €5k, teaching reductions, and a fully-funded PhD researcher.

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Fox News lies.

Thrilled to see actions like this.

Based on the capitulation of most social media to right-wing forces BlueSky is the only social media I'll be using. I understand one account isn't that much, but I refuse to allow these companies to sell me as a subscriber.

I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.”

The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.

And they were willing to lose money to do it.

@altnps.bsky.social

Racial bias can taint the academic tenure process—at one particular point Black and Hispanic professors fare worse when voters include colleagues who are less familiar with their work, new study finds

"Overall, Black and Hispanic faculty received 7% more negative votes from college committees and were 44% less likely to receive unanimous “yes” votes than their white and Asian colleagues." - Kate Langin, Science

www.science.org/content/arti... #AcademicSky #PhDsky

I might add that as more right wing politicians continue to avoid mainstream media sources the partisan media continues to grow in importance.

EDITORS: Come work with us. The ProPublica-Texas Tribune investigative unit has an opening.

Seems to be a habit when a board or data shows something they don’t like get rid of it/stop collecting it.

Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...

NEW: Georgia officials have dismissed all members of a state committee charged with investigating deaths of pregnant women. The move came in response to ProPublica having obtained internal reports detailing two deaths.