Dr. Melissa Beers
@mjbeers1.bsky.social
Inclusion is not a dirty word.
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BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com
Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer
Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.
www.rollingstone.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:46 AM
BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com
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The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
April 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
I’m looking forward to our session this afternoon here at #AACUCLASS. Really enjoying the conversations so far!
April 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I’m looking forward to our session this afternoon here at #AACUCLASS. Really enjoying the conversations so far!
Quote from Stephanie Akunvabey of Pace U cited at #AACUCLASS
The work of diversity, equity, & inclusion is like the baking soda in a cookie - you don’t taste it but it’s in every bite. If you take it out you ruin the cookie. But it’s being treated like the icing on a cupcake you can just wipe away.
The work of diversity, equity, & inclusion is like the baking soda in a cookie - you don’t taste it but it’s in every bite. If you take it out you ruin the cookie. But it’s being treated like the icing on a cupcake you can just wipe away.
April 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Quote from Stephanie Akunvabey of Pace U cited at #AACUCLASS
The work of diversity, equity, & inclusion is like the baking soda in a cookie - you don’t taste it but it’s in every bite. If you take it out you ruin the cookie. But it’s being treated like the icing on a cupcake you can just wipe away.
The work of diversity, equity, & inclusion is like the baking soda in a cookie - you don’t taste it but it’s in every bite. If you take it out you ruin the cookie. But it’s being treated like the icing on a cupcake you can just wipe away.
Article by Dewsberry, et al (2022) mentioned in his keynote at #AACUCLASS 2025:
Deep Teaching involves "specific pedagogical approaches and strategies are enacted as a function of carefully cultivated relationships and continuous dialogue with the students."
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Deep Teaching involves "specific pedagogical approaches and strategies are enacted as a function of carefully cultivated relationships and continuous dialogue with the students."
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Inclusive and active pedagogies reduce academic outcome gaps and improve long-term performance
We assessed the impacts of the implementation of inclusive and active pedagogical approaches in an introductory biology sequence at a large, public research university in the northeast United States. ...
journals.plos.org
April 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Article by Dewsberry, et al (2022) mentioned in his keynote at #AACUCLASS 2025:
Deep Teaching involves "specific pedagogical approaches and strategies are enacted as a function of carefully cultivated relationships and continuous dialogue with the students."
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Deep Teaching involves "specific pedagogical approaches and strategies are enacted as a function of carefully cultivated relationships and continuous dialogue with the students."
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
This has been one moving and important keynote. Whew.
“The way I define teaching is the ability to lead a student out their current state of readiness to where they can see the beauty and power of their potential.” @dewsbury.bsky.social at #AACUCLASS
April 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This has been one moving and important keynote. Whew.
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“Teaching students how to engage in difference and respectful dialogue is something every class can do,” says @fiu.bsky.social professor @dewsbury.bsky.social. #AACUCLASS
April 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
“Teaching students how to engage in difference and respectful dialogue is something every class can do,” says @fiu.bsky.social professor @dewsbury.bsky.social. #AACUCLASS
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Northern Arizona University President José Luis Cruz Rivera’s message to #AACUCLASS attendees: higher education must “move from prestige to purpose, from silos to systems, from resistance to reimagination.”
April 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Northern Arizona University President José Luis Cruz Rivera’s message to #AACUCLASS attendees: higher education must “move from prestige to purpose, from silos to systems, from resistance to reimagination.”
Bryan Dewsberry at AACU CLASS:
"It's a rare time when words are being weaponized and are being struck from our websites and curricula. I'm struck by the speed of the retreat from those words. These are words presidents stood up and swore they believed in. Did they ever really mean those words?"
"It's a rare time when words are being weaponized and are being struck from our websites and curricula. I'm struck by the speed of the retreat from those words. These are words presidents stood up and swore they believed in. Did they ever really mean those words?"
April 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Bryan Dewsberry at AACU CLASS:
"It's a rare time when words are being weaponized and are being struck from our websites and curricula. I'm struck by the speed of the retreat from those words. These are words presidents stood up and swore they believed in. Did they ever really mean those words?"
"It's a rare time when words are being weaponized and are being struck from our websites and curricula. I'm struck by the speed of the retreat from those words. These are words presidents stood up and swore they believed in. Did they ever really mean those words?"
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Dark Pence is back.
April 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Dark Pence is back.
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Don’t look at me, I voted for the black lady who didn’t want to burn down our economy.
April 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Don’t look at me, I voted for the black lady who didn’t want to burn down our economy.
“Woke” was appropriated from Black culture. Now mainly white people apply it as a blanket term for anything raising consciousness of women, minorities, LGBTQIA+ ppl, indigenous ppls… anything challenging the authority and dominance of white men.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘It reminds you of a fascist state’: Smithsonian Institution braces for Trump rewrite of US history
Normally staid historians sound alarm at authoritarian grasping for control of the premier US museum complex
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:59 AM
“Woke” was appropriated from Black culture. Now mainly white people apply it as a blanket term for anything raising consciousness of women, minorities, LGBTQIA+ ppl, indigenous ppls… anything challenging the authority and dominance of white men.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Let’s call it what it is: wokeness is a pejorative for critical thinking, for challenging the status quo. For some i’ss threatening to examine sources of harm to vulnerable groups & minorities because they don’t want to acknowledge the role they play in preserving of upholding these harms.
March 31, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Let’s call it what it is: wokeness is a pejorative for critical thinking, for challenging the status quo. For some i’ss threatening to examine sources of harm to vulnerable groups & minorities because they don’t want to acknowledge the role they play in preserving of upholding these harms.
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“And the President chose Hegseth and the other members of his cabinet for exactly that reason—as amplifiers, not policy experts or adept managers of large organizations.”
Excellent piece from @kschake.bsky.social
Excellent piece from @kschake.bsky.social
My thoughts on the Signal business: "nobody wearing an American military uniform can doubt that if they took details of an ongoing operation off a classified system and transmitted them on an unclassified commercial platform, they would be court martialled and probably go to prison."
www.aei.org
March 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“And the President chose Hegseth and the other members of his cabinet for exactly that reason—as amplifiers, not policy experts or adept managers of large organizations.”
Excellent piece from @kschake.bsky.social
Excellent piece from @kschake.bsky.social
Education research cuts are barely moving the needle on the federal budget, but causing massive harm. Great piece by my colleagues who study math cognition.
www.beaconjournal.com/story/opinio...
www.beaconjournal.com/story/opinio...
How much are cuts to the Department of Education affecting the federal budget? | Opinion
We study how people understand numbers. At a time when student math scores are sliding, are Department of Education cuts worth it?
www.beaconjournal.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Education research cuts are barely moving the needle on the federal budget, but causing massive harm. Great piece by my colleagues who study math cognition.
www.beaconjournal.com/story/opinio...
www.beaconjournal.com/story/opinio...
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Marco Rubio just made the argument, bold faced, not a mistake an intentional statement, that at any time the US can revoke your visa and then you are instantly here illegally and they can arrest you, deport you, torture you, all without any due process.
That means the United States is simply unsafe
That means the United States is simply unsafe
March 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Marco Rubio just made the argument, bold faced, not a mistake an intentional statement, that at any time the US can revoke your visa and then you are instantly here illegally and they can arrest you, deport you, torture you, all without any due process.
That means the United States is simply unsafe
That means the United States is simply unsafe
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Why has no one heard about supposed Russian and Chinese "aggressive incursions" in Greenland (a NATO member territory) until Vance mentioned them today? Is it because Vance is making shit up, and Trump is and both think we're stupid, or because they are?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMUE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMUE...
JD Vance: 'We need to ensure that America is leading in the Arctic'
YouTube video by Sky News
www.youtube.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Why has no one heard about supposed Russian and Chinese "aggressive incursions" in Greenland (a NATO member territory) until Vance mentioned them today? Is it because Vance is making shit up, and Trump is and both think we're stupid, or because they are?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMUE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMUE...
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He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.
March 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.
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My family has been in Ohio since 1808. On the actuarial tables, I have about 40 more years of writing. I'm watching Ohio being destroyed in real-time, and I promise you that I will make sure everybody knows how it happened, and who is to blame, in the history books.
March 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
My family has been in Ohio since 1808. On the actuarial tables, I have about 40 more years of writing. I'm watching Ohio being destroyed in real-time, and I promise you that I will make sure everybody knows how it happened, and who is to blame, in the history books.
We are now at the point in Ohio where students are afraid to write about the issues they care about because they are afraid another student in their class might report them for it.
This is America in 2025.
This is America in 2025.
March 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
We are now at the point in Ohio where students are afraid to write about the issues they care about because they are afraid another student in their class might report them for it.
This is America in 2025.
This is America in 2025.
I honestly never imagined we would see the return of white supremacy, authoritarianism, or eugenics in my lifetime.
Yet, it’s all here right now. My heart breaks more and more every day.
Yet, it’s all here right now. My heart breaks more and more every day.
March 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I honestly never imagined we would see the return of white supremacy, authoritarianism, or eugenics in my lifetime.
Yet, it’s all here right now. My heart breaks more and more every day.
Yet, it’s all here right now. My heart breaks more and more every day.
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If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
March 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.