There is still the possibility of a veto, so we can hold out hope for a few more days. (Thanks to gerrymandering, the OH state legislature is considerably more conservative than the populace as a whole, meaning the Governor faces more pressure from protests.)

Columbia professor Joseph Howley (@illdottore.bsky.social) says he and many colleagues have been warning that suppression of the Palestine solidarity movement is part of a larger right-wing attack on education, only to be ignored by the Columbia administration.

I’d want to see that!

Well done! Excited to celebrate!

Thanks! It’s a musical analysis of Sophocles’ Antigone, published last January in Arethusa: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Taken out of context, this seems super florid…. I swear that all these descriptive adjectives are doing serious work, pulling together the motifs I traced across the play!

I’ve been on the ground since 2013, and you can definitely count me among the very burnt. It makes me even more attached to the progress I’ve fought for and now implemented. I’ll think about writing something up.

I’d be happy to chat. I suppose I could think about writing something up at some point, if you think people would find it useful.

I definitely don’t blame folks for having reservations. I figure since I am in a position to provide some info on what has changed, I ought to offer it here. It has been a laborious process for those involved, and I’d hate to see it be for nothing. As for the ACL and NLE, I’m not sure what’s up.

Please keep in mind that this was written in 2019. Organizations can change in response to criticism (both external and internal), and the changes at Paideia’s Greece program have been HUGE in terms of both staff and policies. This isn’t the same organization that it was in 2019.

Please keep in mind that organizations are made up of many people, and the most ardent criticisms often come from within. I now run Paideia’s Greece program, which otherwise has all new staff and firm DEI policies. If the program has issues, they are new ones (and I’d love to know about them).

Please keep in mind that this was written five years ago and that organizations can change in response to criticism, which is a good thing. Paideia has undergone a massive overhaul in personnel, and the current staff have worked hard on policies to prevent the return of past wrongs.