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Have spent the last week re #coding ALL #quizzes, #discussions, #modules, and #syllabi in my FIVE current #online #courses for better #accessibility and #readability …

Texas A&M Bans Plato Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That’s a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, was told by university officials today about his upcoming “Contemporary Moral Problems” course, due to start next week. Here’s the actual email: “Rule 08.01” refers to these recent policy changes at the university. “Kristi” is Department of Philosophy chair Kristi Sweet, who, I think it’s safe to assume, was merely passing along the verdict of “the college leadership team“, headed up by interim dean Simon North. (The above email and other documents in this post were provided by Professor Peterson.) I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato. The Plato readings were from the Symposium, particularly passages on Aristophanes’ myth of split humans and Diotima’s ladder of love. The other readings are from Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues (10th edition) by Andrew Fiala and Barbara MacKinnon. Professor Peterson had been contacted by his chair on December 19th about the review of syllabi for Contemporary Moral Problems courses. Here’s that email: Professor Peterson replied to this, submitting his syllabus for what he referred to, correctly, as “mandatory censorship review”. Among other things, he said, “Please note that my course does not “advocate” any ideology; I teach students how to structure and evaluate arguments commonly raised in discussions of contemporary moral issues.” (See “The Charade of Banning ‘Advocacy’“.) He also reminded his chair and college officials that “the U.S. Constitution protects my course content,” as do the norms of academic freedom. Here is his full reply: Here is Professor Peterson’s syllabus (also here):  It was clear that Texas A&M’s new policies were going to lead to conflicts with the First Amendment and academic freedom. That the first such conflict involves telling a professor to remove from his syllabus the writings of the person who created what was arguably the west’s first institution of higher education is too perfect an irony, though. This reality is unbelievable. (Thanks to several readers who alerted me to the story.) COMMENTS POLICY The post Texas A&M Bans Plato first appeared on Daily Nous.

A Course on Public Philosophy What does a course on public philosophy look like? Ian Olasov developed a version of it with Susan Dieleman that takes students beyond the typical classroom experience, and will be teaching it for the first time this coming term at the University of Lethbridge. He writes: The course is intended to serve as the capstone for a certificate in Democratic Leadership that Susan is putting together at the university. It’s half “experiential learning” and half seminar on the theory and practice of public philosophy. For the experiential learning bit, students will partner with local and national organizations to work on public philosophy projects of use to them—AI policy with the public library, news selection with the local newspaper, budgeting consultation with city government, and so on. For the seminar, we’re reading about the sociology of intellectuals, philosophical expertise, activism, storytelling, leadership, and civility. Plus there are a few assignments that I think should be fun: a philosophical ethnography, a philosophical hero’s journey, and op-edifying an old paper. You can look at the syllabus here. In addition to containing the usual course information, it explains the “community partnerships” aspect of the course (including grading, descriptions of the partnering organizations, etc.) and the other assignments. Dr. Olasov says, “I hope it’s useful to people interested in incorporating more public philosophy into their teaching. If it is, you’re also very welcome to check out the other public philosophy courses and assignments in the Public Philosophy Network’s Syllabus and Assignment Archive.” The post A Course on Public Philosophy first appeared on Daily Nous.

At UNC, Professors Must Soon Post Syllabi Publicly The UNC system president cited low trust in higher education as justification for the new policy, which echoes rules in Florida and Texas. Faculty are fighting the decision.

Yeah, fvck that.

The #UniversityofNorthCarolina at Chapel Hill #Professors Must Soon #Post #Syllabi #Publicly

The UNC system president cited low trust in #HigherEducation as justification for the new policy, which echoes rules in #Florida and #Texas. #Faculty are #fighting the #decision.

A Mess at Texas A&M The Texas A&M University System’s Board of Regents took steps yesterday to impose its conservative ideology on college students by prohibiting professors from teaching certain ideas about race and gender. They did so by making changes to the system’s policies. One change to the “Civil Rights Protection and Compliance” section of the policies they approved states: No system academic course will advocate race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity, unless the course and the relevant course materials are approved in advance by the member CEO. The use of the term “advocate” in the policy is worth noting. It is a label for an inappropriate pedagogical approach (indeed professors should teach students, not lobby them) and it associates this inappropriate pedagogical approach with teaching about race and gender, insinuating that if students are hearing about race or gender in their course, it must be because their professors are doing something illicit. “Advocate” is also a slippery concept. If a professor covers evidence for and against some aspect of gender or race “ideology,” when discussing the evidence in its favor, are they thereby “advocating” for gender ideology? What about devil’s advocacy? Is the use of that teaching tool banned when it comes to race and gender? What about explaining an idea without condemning it? The policy bans courses that advocate race or gender ideology as well as courses that advocate “topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity.” But “advocate topics” is a very odd way to speak. They probably meant “include topics” but perhaps didn’t want to say that, since to say that discussion of certain topics in a college course is banned is too transparently dictatorial. The inclusion of those topics is prohibited “unless the course and the relevant course materials are approved in advance by the member CEO.” This presupposes an impressive degree of administrative micromanagement. The idea that the administration may dictate the materials and subjects for all courses is quite a departure from the academic freedom that faculty at institutions like Texas A&M expect. What is gender or race ideology anyway? The policy offers the following definitions: Gender Ideology – means a concept of self-assessed gender identity replacing, and disconnected from, the.. The post A Mess at Texas A&M first appeared on Daily Nous.

Texas Systems Review Course Descriptions, Syllabi Syllabi and course information are becoming increasingly public and Texas institutions are scrambling to scrub them of topics like gender identity.

The 'Texas System' is made up of #illiterate, #extremist, #rightwing #bigots who have no business scrutinizing anything to do with #education. 🤬

#Texas Systems Review Course Descriptions, Syllabi, as Critics Scrutinize Them

#Syllabi and #course #info...

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Decided to up the stakes for syllabi reading:

Giving students a notecard and the homework is to read the syllabus and write 2 questions about the course.

Bonus pts for insightful, unique, or interesting questions.

Starting off week 1 with an A or an F …

#academia #writing #syllabi

Syllabi Syllabi in Applied Linguistics Series Editors: Benjamin Kremmel University of Innsbruck) & Paula Winke (Michigan State University) While initiatives and efforts to foster openness and transparency in ...

Applied #Linguistics Press is launching a new series titled: #Syllabi in Applied Linguistics. This #OA series collects and overviews syllabus descriptions for different staple courses in applied linguistics and #language #teaching. More here: www.appliedlinguisticspress.org/home/series/...

Updating the AI Assessment Scale Thanks for visiting! Before you read on, please make sure you visit our new website at https://aiassessmentscale.com/. It’s the new home for all of the AIAS related materials, publications, and resour...

For #college #professors and others in #academia who are updating their #syllabi, here is a scale that may help you devise language about use of #AI for assessments/assignments. Just learned about it today! leonfurze.com/2024/08/28/u...

GitHub - gpappasunb/class-schedule: Quarto extension to create a PDF document that renders a specially formatted list of topics, along a pre-defined span of days, allowing you to select the recurring ... Quarto extension to create a PDF document that renders a specially formatted list of topics, along a pre-defined span of days, allowing you to select the recurring days of the week for the topics. ...

I’ve released a new Quarto extension to help create class schedules and syllabi. The extension makes it simple to distribute a list of topics over a date range using straightforward syntax.
github.com/gpappasunb/c...

#quarto #Education #Syllabi #Teachers

Classroom Policy/Guidance on AI Generative Tools This form is to collect and share examples of policies/classroom syllabi that are instructors are using that focus on AI Generative Tools (e.g. ChatGPT, MidJourney, Dall-E, etc.). If you have one tha...

Looking for more GenAI syllabus policies across higher ed! In particular:
STEM, Business, & Health courses
Gen Ed (Writing, Speech, Psych)
Prof/vocational programs

📥 Submit/update: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📚 Browse: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

#HigherEd #GenAI #Syllabi

Networked Publics Weekly Themes: • Publics as Social & Scholarly Constructs & Contestations • Deliberation & its Critics & Extensions • Problematizing Public Participation • Difference, Alterity, Universality, (Anti-) Colonialism • Institutional Forms of Public Media • The Press, Journalism, & Publics • Scaling, Sovereignty, & Covenants • Data Publics • The Public Politics of Counting & Aggregating • Public Affect, Aesthetics, Agonisms, & Intimacies • Materiality & Public Infrastructure • Digital Publics in/through AI, Platforms, Data, & Algorithms • Making Public Problems & Controversies

New syllabus!

I completely updated one of my very fav courses "Networked Publics: Theories & Encounters".

web-app.usc.edu/soc/syllabus...

Foundational & new works, organized into a new set of themes, with a huge set of supplemental readings I couldn't squeeze in.

#academicSky #academia #syllabi

#archivists and people who know more about this than I do for any reason: is there a way to find old #syllabi (I'm interested in things from the ±1950s-1990s)? I have an ambition* to make a survey of literature and writing class materials from US universities in that period.

* may come to nought

We hope you’ll find it useful for finding #newbooks, hosting feminist book clubs, adding new content to #syllabi, & increasing your own knowledge & compassion.

Thanks to Safia Elhillo, Nada Elmikashfi, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Gayatri Sethi for their help.

New Semester #Success Tip #1:
Embark on this semester's journey by navigating your course syllabi like a seasoned traveler with a map. Here's a thread explaining why understanding your #syllabi is key to acing your #academic adventure and making your professors smile (trust me, I used to be one!). 👩🏻‍🏫

Syllabi Polices for Generative AI - Google Drive

friendly reminder as #Educators think about next semester--here's a collection over 100+ #Syllabi policies for #GenerativeAI--feel free to peruse or even submit your own: bit.ly/Syllabi-AI-P...

#HigherEd #EdTech #Teaching #AIEducation #Academia #Learning #ChatGPT #AILiteracy

Call for Syllabi: Do you teach about labor politics? Or teach about related topics, such as democracy, the welfare state, political economy, comparative politics, or global development?

Submit your #syllabi to the APSA Labor Politics online syllabus bank: forms.gle/b8WbRaiMuUKS...

#polisky

Excuse me! Should I keep my exams online this semester?

#syllabi #courseprep

“I hope to see with the #decolonization of #syllabi is a reframing of the American narrative and a return to modes of #thinking and #knowledge that colonization tried so hard to destroy.”

#IndigeniousX #firstnations #Indigenising #matriarchy

#Semester @IsenbergUMass @UMassAmherst begins next week - been busy working on course #syllabi + #lectures - welcome back to our students!

No perfect Victorian poetry anthology exists, alas. This one lacks "The Leper" and "St. Simeon Stylites." #academiclife #syllabi