Strong work, @nmohlmann.bsky.social!
December 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Strong work, @nmohlmann.bsky.social!
Thanks! How's your progress?
December 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Thanks! How's your progress?
day 16: draft done. Thanks for the motivation and accountability. #acadecawriteathon
December 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
day 16: draft done. Thanks for the motivation and accountability. #acadecawriteathon
day 15: 300+ words. Rounding home. #acadecawriteathon
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
day 15: 300+ words. Rounding home. #acadecawriteathon
@annieabrams.bsky.social have you also looked at the Truman Commission Report, Higher Ed for Am Democracy? It came out after Harvard's Red Book. There are excellent contemporary critiques of the former, and the one I have found most provocative was by Robert Lynd, "Who Calls thr Tune." I can send.
December 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
@annieabrams.bsky.social have you also looked at the Truman Commission Report, Higher Ed for Am Democracy? It came out after Harvard's Red Book. There are excellent contemporary critiques of the former, and the one I have found most provocative was by Robert Lynd, "Who Calls thr Tune." I can send.
day 14: not sure of word total. Added a paragraph + and tinkered with existing. Three more paragraphs should wrap up the draft. #acadecawriteathon
December 15, 2025 at 1:47 AM
day 14: not sure of word total. Added a paragraph + and tinkered with existing. Three more paragraphs should wrap up the draft. #acadecawriteathon
day 13: around 270 fresh words and another 100+ imported and revised from a conf paper on the topic. Got some ironing to do tomorrow. #acadecawriteathon
December 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
day 13: around 270 fresh words and another 100+ imported and revised from a conf paper on the topic. Got some ironing to do tomorrow. #acadecawriteathon
day 12: a light writing day--just a transition paragraph to a new dimension of the topic. After remembering the anxiety US gov't and univ officials felt at mid-century re: 'over educating' people in emerging nations, I also sorted thru archive notes to bolster tomorrow's work. #acadecawriteathon
December 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
day 12: a light writing day--just a transition paragraph to a new dimension of the topic. After remembering the anxiety US gov't and univ officials felt at mid-century re: 'over educating' people in emerging nations, I also sorted thru archive notes to bolster tomorrow's work. #acadecawriteathon
day 11: 250 words and some notes wrapped up this section of the chapter. On to the home stretch. #acadecawriteathon
December 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
day 11: 250 words and some notes wrapped up this section of the chapter. On to the home stretch. #acadecawriteathon
day 10: 500+ words on a time when the gov't and higher ed as a sector WANTED faculty to teach and research non-Western studies. American- and Western-centered topics were far too parochial. Of course, motives behind the push weren't great, nor were the methods (Orientalist, e.g). #acadecawriteathon
December 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
day 10: 500+ words on a time when the gov't and higher ed as a sector WANTED faculty to teach and research non-Western studies. American- and Western-centered topics were far too parochial. Of course, motives behind the push weren't great, nor were the methods (Orientalist, e.g). #acadecawriteathon
day 9: some starts and stops that went nowhere. Recovered late and got out over 400 words that included a gut punch of a quote from a 1958 bureau of the budget bureacrat. #acadecawriteathon
December 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
day 9: some starts and stops that went nowhere. Recovered late and got out over 400 words that included a gut punch of a quote from a 1958 bureau of the budget bureacrat. #acadecawriteathon
day 8: some backfilling of context and incorporation of secondary. Not a lot of forward progression, but better stabilized foundation. #acadecawriteathon
December 9, 2025 at 1:14 AM
day 8: some backfilling of context and incorporation of secondary. Not a lot of forward progression, but better stabilized foundation. #acadecawriteathon
day 7: 209 words on the NDEA's headwaters. #acadecawriteathon
December 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM
day 7: 209 words on the NDEA's headwaters. #acadecawriteathon
Full many a flower
Is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweet breath
On the desert air
Is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweet breath
On the desert air
December 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Full many a flower
Is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweet breath
On the desert air
Is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweet breath
On the desert air
day 6: rest day. Back at it tomorrow. #acadecawriteathon
December 7, 2025 at 4:21 AM
day 6: rest day. Back at it tomorrow. #acadecawriteathon
day 5: only about 110 today. That includes a banger of a footnote about a wistful John Foster Dulles. #acadecawriteathon
December 6, 2025 at 2:05 AM
day 5: only about 110 today. That includes a banger of a footnote about a wistful John Foster Dulles. #acadecawriteathon
day 4: got to write about the tug of war btw education as moral formation or as job training in the run-up to the NDEA today. #acadecawriteathon
December 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
day 4: got to write about the tug of war btw education as moral formation or as job training in the run-up to the NDEA today. #acadecawriteathon
day 3: got out 500 words. Amazing what develops upon a return to archive notes. #acadecawriteathon
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
day 3: got out 500 words. Amazing what develops upon a return to archive notes. #acadecawriteathon
Day 2: 320 today. #acadecawriteathon
December 3, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Day 2: 320 today. #acadecawriteathon