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Brendan Cantwell
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Professor of Higher Education. Mediocre poster (sorry for the bad spelling) who periodically deletes. Views and speech are mine alone.
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Evidently politics at the gym are getting tense
Invitation to discuss hot tub feedback
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Having no reason to hire qualified faculty is a feature, not a bug.
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...
Hiring professors with PhD is meaningless administrators of the ones deciding what gets taught. Faculty will start asking not as this accurate but will get me in trouble. That’s not education, it’s risk management
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Early November dusting is Poppy’s first snow.
A black and white looking up at the photo taker with eyes that say give me a treat, or let’s run, but this ambling stuff is getting old. The dog is in a damp sidewalk scattered with fallen leaves,now dusted with snow, that pushes along a suburban street of lined with and lamp posts that glow through the lite snow.
November 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Harvard’s faculty of arts and sciences says its running a massive structural deficit in part because of the endowment tax and in part because of deferred maintenance and failure to check other costs. Some faculty are not welcoming the coming cuts www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
“You seem to be missing the point you want to preserve old buildings, but you don’t want to preserve the R1 research as part of it. This will just kill it” Franklin said. “Scientific research is not housing prices - it’s something magical. And there are a lot of magical people here.”
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM