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Stephanie Spong
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Mama, poetry nerd, mountain air breather, ed developer, Teaching Matters author.
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Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom (Volume 6) (Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed)
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March 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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More of this, please!
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Career Advice | How Can Deans Support Faculty Well-Being?

Support for faculty well-being should be an expectation of academic leadership, Richard Badenhausen writes. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4hJm8cK
How Can Deans Support Faculty Well-Being? (opinion)
Support for faculty well-being should be an expectation of academic leadership, Richard Badenhausen writes.
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March 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.
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“The ecosystem of research and the creation of new knowledge in universities has been so powerful for American prosperity, American freedom, American ingenuity. To have that disrupted by government overreach is a disaster for this country.” —Wesleyan University President Michael Roth on
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March 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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"If science is to honour one of its core values — a commitment to the truth wherever it might lead — scientists must stand up when DEI matters"

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Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power
The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by.
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March 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Ada Limón
Instructions On Not Giving Up by Ada Limón More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor's almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate sky of spring rains, it's the greening of the trees that really gets to me. When all the shock of white and taffy, the world's baubles and trinkets, leave the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath, the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin growing over whatever winter did to us, a return to the strange idea of continuous living despite the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then, I'll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf unfurling like a fist, I'll take it all. from The Carrying: Poems Milkweed Editions, 2018.
March 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
November 12, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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Opinion | When the Humanities Kept Us Sane

Michael J. Socolow asks if we have already forgotten how the humanities got us through the COVID-19 pandemic. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4bN7yzv
How the humanities got us through the pandemic (opinion)
Michael J. Socolow asks if we have already forgotten how the humanities got us through the COVID-19 pandemic.
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March 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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What We Want
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Linda Pastan What We Want What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: a face, a room, an open book and these things bear our names- now they want us. But what we want appears in dreams, wearing disguises. We fall past, holding out our arms and in the morning our arms ache. We don't remember the dream, but the dream remembers us. It is there all day as an animal is there under the table, as the stars are there even in full sun. From Waiting For My Life w.w.norton 1981. #lindapastan #poetryisnotaluxury
March 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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A good word from the good Lorde.
March 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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NM Supreme Court stands by DEI • Source New Mexico
New Mexico Supreme Court releases open letter stating its ongoing commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
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February 21, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Danusha Laméris
From Bonfire Opera, 2020.
Danusha Laméris SMALL KINDNESSES I've been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say "bless you" when someone sneezes, a leftover from the Bubonic plague. "Don't die," we are saying. And sometimes, when you spill lemons from your grocery bag, someone else will help you pick them up. Mostly, we don't want to harm each other. We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass. We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange. What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these fleeting temples we make together when we say, "Here, have my seat," "Go ahead you first," "I like your hat." From Bonfire Opera University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020.
February 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Clifton for every season.
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Lucille Clifton's Night Vision
Night Vision by Lucille Clinton the girl fits her body in to the space between the bed and the wall. she is a stalk, exhausted. she will do some thing with this. she will surround these bones with flesh, she will cultivate night vision. she will train her tongue to lie still in her mouth and listen. the girl slips into sleep. her dream is red and raging. she will remember to build something human with it. #lucilleclifton From The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 Boa Editions, 2015. #poetryisnotaluxury
February 9, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Researchers 'stunned' after HHMI abruptly cancels program to make science more inclusive
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute abruptly ended a $60 million program to improve the retention of diverse college students
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February 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Just because they declare it does not make it so.
February 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM