Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman
@drszuckerman.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Educational Administration: studies school improvement and community partnerships as collective action problems; increasingly interested in knowledge creation and use; expert cat mom; beginner quilter. All views are my own.
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SFSU offers buyouts to all tenure-track and tenured faculty
The Voluntary Separation Incentive Program is a “balancing act,” where there is a stronger incentive for tenured and tenure-track faculty to retire and open up room to hire back lecturer faculty.
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December 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I have taught aspiring principals and superintendents for the past 9 years. I have four years of classroom experience and completed the principal coursework in NYS... To be an admin in Nebraska, I would have to teach for two years, take 6 credits at exactly the right time. Fun
December 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I have taught aspiring principals and superintendents for the past 9 years. I have four years of classroom experience and completed the principal coursework in NYS... To be an admin in Nebraska, I would have to teach for two years, take 6 credits at exactly the right time. Fun
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Reviving this thread here:
Higher Education Administrators: We are fully committed to the principles of DEI and believe our institution stands for social progress in society.
Higher Education Faculty: Great! We'd like to form a union.
Higher Education Administrators: No, not like that.
Higher Education Administrators: We are fully committed to the principles of DEI and believe our institution stands for social progress in society.
Higher Education Faculty: Great! We'd like to form a union.
Higher Education Administrators: No, not like that.
December 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Reposted by Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman
The lack of empirical evidence in the “anti-conservative bias in higher education” panic is really striking.
We’ve had more than a decade of elite consternation about this so-called crisis based on a handful of anecdotes.
We’ve had more than a decade of elite consternation about this so-called crisis based on a handful of anecdotes.
Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers.
"These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."
"These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."
December 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The lack of empirical evidence in the “anti-conservative bias in higher education” panic is really striking.
We’ve had more than a decade of elite consternation about this so-called crisis based on a handful of anecdotes.
We’ve had more than a decade of elite consternation about this so-called crisis based on a handful of anecdotes.
Yes
“I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with bars.
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Yes
I genuinely do not know how I am supposed to walk across the stage at graduation today with our lying admin on it and at least one Regent who voted to cut my program
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I genuinely do not know how I am supposed to walk across the stage at graduation today with our lying admin on it and at least one Regent who voted to cut my program
The cruelty is the point. To these educators, to these kids and families
New: The Trump administration abruptly canceled $168 million in Community Schools grants across 11 states and DC. Now dozens of K-12 educators nationwide might get laid off as soon as January. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
'A Gut Punch’: What Trump’s New $168 Million Cut Means for Community Schools
School districts in 11 states will imminently lose federal funds that help them cover staff salaries.
www.edweek.org
December 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The cruelty is the point. To these educators, to these kids and families
Of course. Cruelty is the point, whether it is punishing our professors or the poor.
WORK REQUIREMENTS: Nebraska stepped Wednesday toward becoming the first state to start implementing new federal work requirements for Medicaid health insurance recipients beginning May 1, 2026.
From Juan Salinas II:
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From Juan Salinas II:
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Nebraska becomes first state to add new Medicaid federal work requirements • Nebraska Examiner
Nebraska rolled out it's plans for the new federal work requirement for Medicaid as a “hand up and not a hand out."
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December 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Of course. Cruelty is the point, whether it is punishing our professors or the poor.
I guess the liability insurance really has gone up. I am currently locked out of Canvas until I complete the Title IX training that faculty Senate Exec repeatedly told them is inappropriate. Opt out forms take 3 days to process. What even are grades, I guess?
December 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I guess the liability insurance really has gone up. I am currently locked out of Canvas until I complete the Title IX training that faculty Senate Exec repeatedly told them is inappropriate. Opt out forms take 3 days to process. What even are grades, I guess?
I cannot believe they aren't giving us a full academic year to find new jobs. And they expect us to do 256 teach out plans. Every day, fresh new hell
December 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I cannot believe they aren't giving us a full academic year to find new jobs. And they expect us to do 256 teach out plans. Every day, fresh new hell
With the BOR vote over, I thought maybe at least this nightmare would come to an end, but no, there remain fresh new ways to lose my mind everyday.
December 17, 2025 at 4:51 AM
With the BOR vote over, I thought maybe at least this nightmare would come to an end, but no, there remain fresh new ways to lose my mind everyday.
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You know who fascist fear the most? Teachers, because we teach critical thinking skills, we promote the common good & fascist don’t believe in the common good. I’m a teacher & I’m about to get real loud. I will not stay silent while fascists try to steal the future from our kids
October 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
You know who fascist fear the most? Teachers, because we teach critical thinking skills, we promote the common good & fascist don’t believe in the common good. I’m a teacher & I’m about to get real loud. I will not stay silent while fascists try to steal the future from our kids
Yes. And still waiting for the Faculty Senate to actually convene the budget committee that was my parting gift to them
Faculty and staff need to be fluent in the language and techniques of univ budgets. Budgets are how an institution's mission is operationalized. But they're arcane documents, cloaked in obscurantism. And upper admin and boards use that opacity to do all sorts of shit, unaccountable and unfettered
People should take a page out of New School faculty's book and start doing forensic accounting for their own institutions using public documents
December 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Yes. And still waiting for the Faculty Senate to actually convene the budget committee that was my parting gift to them
Weirdly, we did this and it didn't matter in the slightest. We found budget lines at central admin with millions of dollars and no FTEs. And it didn't matter
People should take a page out of New School faculty's book and start doing forensic accounting for their own institutions using public documents
There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff.
This should be headline news.
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This should be headline news.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Weirdly, we did this and it didn't matter in the slightest. We found budget lines at central admin with millions of dollars and no FTEs. And it didn't matter
Every day is a fresh new dystopian hell in higher ed
McCarthyism, automated.
“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
December 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Every day is a fresh new dystopian hell in higher ed
Seriously depressing news for Vermont's public education
👀👀new Ed reform in Vermont and an analysis by the alums of Act 60 dropped 🚨🚨 publicassets.org/research-pub...
The latest: Ed funding reform
After considerable confusion and dissent, the Legislature ultimately approved and the governor signed the education reform bill (Act 73) into law in July 2025 with the explicit goal of spending less o...
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December 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Seriously depressing news for Vermont's public education
Described my current state today as my head being full of Styrofoam and sadness.
December 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Described my current state today as my head being full of Styrofoam and sadness.
Gave my old job talk at UNL 10 yrs ago today. Practicing for my colleagues to give my second on Friday elsewhere. Probably gonna cry
December 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Gave my old job talk at UNL 10 yrs ago today. Practicing for my colleagues to give my second on Friday elsewhere. Probably gonna cry
The Bugeater has a substack, where we post the very best of our analysis of shared governance, academic, freedom and tenure in Nebraska. Here's an especially good one open.substack.com/pub/thebugea...
Fear, Loathing, and “Metrics” at the Nebraska Board of Regents
By Amanda Gailey
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The Bugeater has a substack, where we post the very best of our analysis of shared governance, academic, freedom and tenure in Nebraska. Here's an especially good one open.substack.com/pub/thebugea...
Reposted by Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman
Going to add this great piece to my reading list for my intro instructional design course next semester. History, ELA, edtech, play, agency, resistance. What's not to love? Thanks, @charleswlogan.bsky.social, for writing this into the world!
Teach like a Luddite - Kappan Online
Embracing new technologies that don’t advance teaching and learning is a mistake. Educators must ask questions — and resist when necessary.
kappanonline.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Going to add this great piece to my reading list for my intro instructional design course next semester. History, ELA, edtech, play, agency, resistance. What's not to love? Thanks, @charleswlogan.bsky.social, for writing this into the world!
Reposted by Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman
Limiting students’ access to college because they are deemed underprepared does not seem to do them any favors.
What the internet backlash over remedial math at UC San Diego misses
Limiting students’ access to college because they are deemed underprepared does not seem to do them any favors.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Limiting students’ access to college because they are deemed underprepared does not seem to do them any favors.
Can't wait to see if the Big10 decides to do this
December 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Can't wait to see if the Big10 decides to do this
The destruction of public education is everywhere all at once, making it so hard to fight back. If public education, P-12 or post secondary, goes away, it's not coming back and we'll all be poorer for it
Circulating a petition against a proposal to force UNC system faculty to share their syllabi publicly, a move that would potentially exposing faculty to bad faith actors without necessarily improving student access to syllabi (which are already accessible in the course catalog) #AcademicFreedom
Protect Academic Freedom, Our Faculty, Our Communities
Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members: The UNC System is preparing to cave to political pressure from the Heritage Foundation, the Oversight Project, and the James Martin Center by ...
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December 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
The destruction of public education is everywhere all at once, making it so hard to fight back. If public education, P-12 or post secondary, goes away, it's not coming back and we'll all be poorer for it