Milad Mohebali
mmohebali.bsky.social
Milad Mohebali
@mmohebali.bsky.social
assistant professor of higher education at unl | materials scientist, humanist, and educator | highered, precarity, affect, temporality, pedagogy
Will have to use this for my Spring class on higher ed planning when students get angry at me for not giving them “best practices.” @laurida.bsky.social expect an invitation to join (please)!
New @ Change Mag, a brilliant special issue on ideas and ideologies in higher education policy, with this odd duckling snuck in for good measure. The argument: if we don't attend to anticipation - captures of a feared future made present - in higher ed policy, we continue to circle the drain... 1/4
Better Future Outcomes Now: How Speculative Reform Rewrites the Present in American Higher Education Policy
Published in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning (Vol. 56, No. 6, 2024)
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December 10, 2024 at 9:16 PM
I thought students as customers was a description of reality than a metaphor. But guess we all see the world differently 🙃
Opinion | A Better Metaphor: The Student as Client

Keith B. Murray argues that thinking of students as customers gets the professor’s role all wrong. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3VzCahb
The student as client (not customer) (opinion)
Keith B. Murray argues that thinking of students as customers gets the professor’s role all wrong.
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December 10, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Have never had as many students in crisis in my courses. I keep thinking about pedagogy moving forward!
December 10, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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Read an interview with a college president about backlash against elites and what that means for colleges and not mentioned was how going all in on "ai" might undermine legitimacy (esp for that inst). So now I'm rewatching TMC's piece.

www.instagram.com/tressiemcphd...
Tressie McPhD on Instagram: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems."
3,061 likes, 125 comments - tressiemcphd on October 15, 2024: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems.".
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December 3, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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📣 Announcing: RIS Online Conference 2025!

"Finding Purpose in Research with International Students"
10 - 13 March 2025 (online only)

Abstracts due 24 January 2025
Details about the theme and call for abstracts are available at: researchintlstudents.com/conference20...
November 28, 2024 at 9:55 AM
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Looking for others in Higher Education & Student Affairs!
Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #HESA
go.bsky.app/7asixYJ
November 15, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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Timely scholarship in the context of plans to introduce more work requirements to reduce SNAP take-up.
This article shows that a) lower burdens (using existing administrative data) increases SNAP take-up which b) contributes to greater earnings later in life.
November 25, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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Our next ASHE president and #ASHE2025 theme!
November 23, 2024 at 10:23 PM