"There have been many calls to expand P&T to include more types of nontraditional scholarship…and to formally acknowledge that there are more ways to share knowledge than the written word. We’re calling for an even more expansive view of scholarship: one that invites, accepts, and celebrates the entirety of research, including datasets."
Florida's #BrainDrain is in full force due to DeSantis' dystopic policies. This is, without doubt, a goal of the cruel, cryptic changes to #DEI and #tenure at state colleges.
This begs the question, is there anything we in #academia from other states can do to combat the dismantleing of Florida's #education system? If so, should we? Or do we view it as the just deserts of voting for #DeFascist?
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‘We are easy targets’: professor speaks out on quitting over
👉Republican culture wars
“I have this morning informed my dean that I will step down from my position at LSU at the end of the school year,” Journalism professor Robert Mann posted on X.
“My reasons are simple: the person who will be governor in January has already asked LSU to fire me. And I have 👉 no confidence the leadership of this university would protect the Manship School against a governor’s efforts to punish me and other faculty members.”
Mann’s resignation comes amid the 🔺GOP’s fight to seize control of American colleges and universities🔺.
Rightwing lawmakers this year introduced more than👉 50 bills across 23 states aimed at eliminating faculty tenure, a longstanding job protection policy to protect academics from outside interference.
Florida, Texas, Tennessee and North Dakota this year enacted legislation that would 👉unravel Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) efforts at state colleges and universities, making it more difficult for higher education to protect marginalized students.
Earlier this week, Wisconsin Republicans used Universities of Wisconsin 👉employee salaries as a bargaining chip against the school’s fight to protect DEI spending.
Professors like Mann are unwilling to remain on the frontlines of the GOP’s battle on higher education – especially without the backing of university leadership. #culturewar#tenure#dei https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/20/us-universities-faculty-republican-culture-war?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
"An overwhelming majority of faculty members in [#Florida, #Georgia, #NorthCarolina & #Texas] are deeply dissatisfied with…political interference in university affairs & changes, or proposed changes, to #tenure & academic freedom policies…More than 65% would not recommend their state as a…place to work…while about a third are actively considering interviewing elsewhere in the coming year."
Here is a statement from a West Virginia Linguistics professor whose entire department has been eliminated. It provides additional context to the Provost's decision to cancel 38 majors and the tenure and untenured faculty lines associated with them.
Here is a statement from a West Virginia Linguistics professor whose entire department has been eliminated. It provides additional context to the Provost's decision to cancel 38 majors and the tenure and untenured faculty lines associated with them.
A Texas A&M Regent says "McElroy’s hiring would derail the “purpose” outlined for the journalism program: “to get high-quality Aggie journalists with conservative values into the market.”
Tell me again how liberals are controlling university values? /s
Call for Abstracts now open! A new Commonplace series, co-edited by me and Juan Pablo Alperin, asks authors to share their thoughts on #tenure promotion and recognition models to answer the question, "How can we better reflect the scope of work happening across and beyond academia in our recognition models?" Accepted pieces will receive an honorarium of $150. https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/qjlq8dw1/release/1
In retrospect, outsourcing the evaluation for hiring and promotion of every university professor to unregulated, nontransparent, unaccountable academic journals was a mistake. #academia#tenure#peerreview
I recently explained to a senior colleague in my department, who asked if I want to be an administrator at some point, that a limiting factor is the fact that one of my top #CareerGoals is to never need to dress well, and that this helped me choose Minnesota as my department.
Then reflected again on how great it is to have #tenure when I say shit like that
The same article reports that public universities in Florida are having trouble hiring professors. "During [recruitment] conversations, 'more and more often, we are hearing, "Florida? Not Florida. Not now. Not yet," because they are looking at regulations' like this one, as well as bills passed and proposed by the Florida Legislature."
South Africa: Small farmers celebrate victory outside Cape High Court (www.groundup.org.za)
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