Alex Lester
@alexanderlester.bsky.social
Nerd 🤓 | Brother 🤗 | Pet Parent 🐾 | TV Addict 📺 | Ed.D. Student 🎓| Director of Instructional Tech and Design 👨🏻🏫 | Multiracial ✊🏽 | Gay 🏳️🌈 | He/Him | Scranton 📍| Lifelong Learner 🔎 | Repost ≠ Endorsement
Labouré is hiring an Assistant Director of #LibraryServices in Milton, Mass (just outside of #Boston). #academicsky
Recruitment
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June 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Labouré is hiring an Assistant Director of #LibraryServices in Milton, Mass (just outside of #Boston). #academicsky
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Scranton” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS Scranton · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** candlelight vigil
NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from ...
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May 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Scranton” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
100% Unhinged
US Bans Harvard From Enrolling Foreign Students
YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts
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May 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
100% Unhinged
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Columbia University now policing the alumni newsletter
May 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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My student loan payments officially start back up next month, and I have exactly seven years left until my student loan debt will be forgiven.
May 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
My student loan payments officially start back up next month, and I have exactly seven years left until my student loan debt will be forgiven.
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/n...
Mohsen Mahdawi, Released From ICE Custody, Graduates From Columbia
www.nytimes.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/n...
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You know you’re winning when you post “We are NOT the Gestapo!”
May 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
You know you’re winning when you post “We are NOT the Gestapo!”
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Let me get this straight, as a professor at a public university I can't accept a gift from a student worth $50 or more, yet the president can accept a $400 million jet from a foreign leader.
May 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Let me get this straight, as a professor at a public university I can't accept a gift from a student worth $50 or more, yet the president can accept a $400 million jet from a foreign leader.
Please watch and then start reading his work—it is so good!
Thanks, @tarabrabazon.bsky.social, for creating this video! #academicsky #philosophy #philosophyofeducation #education #edusky #edtech
Thanks, @tarabrabazon.bsky.social, for creating this video! #academicsky #philosophy #philosophyofeducation #education #edusky #edtech
Great scholars inspire us. Transform us. This week - we explore the research and career of Professor Yusef Waghid. A scholar of our time and for our time. He enables our infrastructures of care. youtu.be/uZQyFqTl4yQ
Post 90 - Yusef Waghid: compassion, care and citizenship
YouTube video by Tara Brabazon
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May 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Please watch and then start reading his work—it is so good!
Thanks, @tarabrabazon.bsky.social, for creating this video! #academicsky #philosophy #philosophyofeducation #education #edusky #edtech
Thanks, @tarabrabazon.bsky.social, for creating this video! #academicsky #philosophy #philosophyofeducation #education #edusky #edtech
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NEW: Columbia University has agreed to a $750M settlement with nearly 600 patients of Robert Hadden, a former doctor who sexually abused them while working at the school.
A 2023 ProPublica investigation revealed how the school shielded the OB-GYN for decades.
A 2023 ProPublica investigation revealed how the school shielded the OB-GYN for decades.
Columbia Will Pay Survivors of Abusive Doctor $750 Million After ProPublica Revealed University’s Failures
The sweeping deal means the Ivy League school’s settlements will total more than $1 billion for over 1,000 claims of sexual abuse by former patients of OB-GYN Robert Hadden, who worked at the universi...
www.propublica.org
May 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
NEW: Columbia University has agreed to a $750M settlement with nearly 600 patients of Robert Hadden, a former doctor who sexually abused them while working at the school.
A 2023 ProPublica investigation revealed how the school shielded the OB-GYN for decades.
A 2023 ProPublica investigation revealed how the school shielded the OB-GYN for decades.
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Sure, it’s nice when food tastes good—but sometimes, it just needs to keep you alive. Signed, a POC navigating an unseasoned, flavor-optional society. 😉
14. What is your most controversial cooking opinion?
May 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Sure, it’s nice when food tastes good—but sometimes, it just needs to keep you alive. Signed, a POC navigating an unseasoned, flavor-optional society. 😉
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Reading is a privilege that many have died for. Don’t take it for granted
May 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Reading is a privilege that many have died for. Don’t take it for granted
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We must insist in every instance that learning is about coming to personal and communal understandings of a good life and a common good. Such things can be achieved in every disciplinary concept, but pretending it is solely about metrics and competencies is a way to annihilate its meaning altogether
May 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
We must insist in every instance that learning is about coming to personal and communal understandings of a good life and a common good. Such things can be achieved in every disciplinary concept, but pretending it is solely about metrics and competencies is a way to annihilate its meaning altogether
New account for reasons! I will be posting about #HigherEd #EdTech, #Sociology of #Education, and #CriticalPedagogy.
May 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
New account for reasons! I will be posting about #HigherEd #EdTech, #Sociology of #Education, and #CriticalPedagogy.