ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@qoto.org

Organizing for the Common Good: what is at stake as union organizing among student workers intensifies. https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/04/25/organizing-common-good

This is first on Mastodon! Please boost this thread. It’s an important one.

Good morning to readers. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

Some career news: I’m leaving NPR as part of the layoffs that dramatically reduced the company’s workforce.

I’ve decided to go back into Ukraine to keep reporting.

But this time, alone.

#HigherEd is burning in Connecticut. Under Gov. Lamont’s budget, the CSCU system may have to lay off 600-800 faculty and staff, close programs, cut courses, and increase class sizes. https://ctmirror.org/2023/04/25/rome-and-higher-ed-is-burning-in-connecticut/

Florida Students Walk Out of School to Protest DeSantis Education Policies https://www.teenvogue.com/story/florida-students-walkout-learn

I learned today that 5 of my books are among the more than 1600 books banned in some schools right now.

https://pen.org/index-of-school-book-bans-2022/

For more information
https://pen.org/issue/free-the-books/

Study finds the presence of women IT experts on boards resulted in better cyber risk management--board monitoring, mgmt supervision & corp governance. Women valued disclosures more than men, had lower risk tolerance & engaged less in fraudulent practices.
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/cybersecurity-it-expert-women-gender-board-research-canada

Wow, the WashIngton Post treats Trump's vows to create a fascist federal government as just a routine political story. Here's the headline and deck:

"Trump touts authoritarian vision for second term: ‘I am your justice’

"The former president is proposing deploying the military domestically, purging the federal workforce and building futuristic cities from scratch."

This stuff is beyond authoritarian.

Senate Committee Probes Top Universities, Museums Over Failures to Repatriate Human Remains
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U.S. senators want five institutions to explain why they continue to hold thousands of #NativeAmerican remains and belongings, following reporting from ProPublica and NBC News.

“It’s immoral, it’s hypocritical, and it has to stop,” one senator said.

#Repatriation #Museums #Schools #Universities #College #NAGPRA

https://www.propublica.org/article/senate-probes-universities-museums-nagpra-failures?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

"Hundreds of institutions nationwide still hold a total of more than 100,000 ancestral remains, according to the news organizations’ analysis of federal data. None has more than UC Berkeley, with 9,000..."

There is literally no reason for this, Berkeley. None.

#Repatriation

Is anyone else here being consumed by 'application' duties (grant, jobs, ethics, annual monitoring reports) all cramping together?

@phdstudents @academicchatter

Let’s appreciate local journalism.

Too bad he wasn’t fired because he’ll still get health benefits and a pension which are more of the things Republicans always vote against anyway.

Now do so more, starting with Speaker Sexton.

GOP leader, who voted to expel TN Three, resigns; accused of sexual harassment-
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/revealed/revealed-gop-leader-who-voted-to-expel-tennessee-three-found-guilty-of-sexually-harassing-interns

No better business model than to try to get people to pay for something already freely available for no additional benefit other than being embarrassed by a blue check.

Why did some #Schools see more #COVID19 #Infections than others?🧵

Q: Are student infections related to socio-economic characteristics of school populations and/or their location?

A: Both. But area deprivation matters more.

My paper with Nathan Lau, Daniel Ansari, and Nisha Thampi answers these questions.

Here it is is hot off the presses in the BMJ Open!

#Education #PublicHealth

🥳So happy to share my new article in British Journal of Sociology of Education! I am building on Margaret Archer's reflexivity theory to explain the practical intents of women full professors in a gendered and neoliberalised academia👉🏽https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2023.2203358
50 free eprints in the first comment

@edutooters @sociology @academicchatter @academicsunite

The cost of #FoxNews disinformation is far higher than $787,500,000.

Hi guys, it’s me, your local angry ER doc!

Iowa GOP Senate passed a bill allowing 14 year olds to work night shifts. I have worked countless night shifts. I’ve worked 24 and 36 hour call, and I’ve had to go to lectures or meetings after many of these. I can tell you with certainty that kids who work night shift aren’t learning at school the day after. Night work also increases risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer, among other ill effects. Kids should never work nights. Ever.

@mcnado

While this study confirms yet again that active learning is superior, it also shows that college students may prefer being lectured at (and incorrectly believe it's more effective): https://is.gd/qte8aj.
One solution: discuss these findings (and the reasons for them) with students.

The Republican higher education takeover continues in #NCPol as legislation proposes ending tenure in #NorthCarolina’s storied public university system, widely seen as the reason the state advanced in the late 20th Century while other Southern states lagged. Good coverage from NC Newsline, formerly NC Policy Watch (wish they were on Mastodon) https://ncnewsline.com/2023/04/19/new-bill-targets-tenure-calls-for-scrutiny-of-research-at-unc-system-campuses-community-colleges/

#highered
#USPol