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This year's AWAC Summer Reads is "Writing Expertise: A Research-Based Approach to Writing and Learning Across Disciplines" by Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle. Join us in Sept. on Zoom to discuss the text with a supportive community of teachers-scholars. Stay tuned for a save-the-date. 1/2

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I’m an institutionalist. I get the thinking here. But please: don’t wait to create alternate sources of legitimacy — create the shadow cabinet, even if only to speak to the public. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Don’t wait for permission. www.axios.com/2025/06/11/v...

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

cats don't obey in advance and no one else should, either

submitted 15 days ago • 250 comments

Voting in the 2025 AWAC Elections is now open! Sign in to wacassociation.org/elections in order to vote; you must be an AWAC member to participate. Voting will be open through 6/12. Thank you to all of our colleagues who've accepted these nominations—and TYIA to you all for voting! 🫡

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Also culinary schools don’t waste a bunch of time and money on microwaves “because students are going to use them in the real world whether we like it or not”

submitted 60 days ago • 8 comments

Exactly this. It had me in tears this morning.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Do you know how much $$ these folx make? Peanuts. I was AmeriCorps for two terms of service and was also scraping to eat and pay bills. There is nothing about this that is for saving $. It’s just evilness at play.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Precisely what I’ve been thinking for the last week.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Was teaching my engineers about slide design (for prep) today and had a series of slides and activity on accessibility. Found myself saying in a spicy tone, “Contrary to what others may say about DEIA, it’s not a bad thing to make sure everyone in the room understands your message and can act on it”

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

After #Princeton, now #Harvard stands up for what is right. #Rutgers is building a coalition of Big Ten public schools. #UMass-Amherst is working on getting land grant universities united. United we are stronger. One step at a time. #highered #academicsky #commsky

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

Do we have a constitutional crisis yet? Folx seem to be waiting and waiting, while those in power are making clear they are not going to abide by any of the rules.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Happy to contribute to this! Haven’t shopped at Target since…January?

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

submitted 71 days ago • 1377 comments

The words I have for USDOE would likely get me banned, here.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

When we moved to ME 4 yrs ago, I had 3 trips to DMV to get my license. Why? Because 29 yrs ago, I had a license here with a different name. Required birth cert, divorce cert, marriage cert, and passport to document name change. (And it’s not even a Real ID, so I get to go back shortly.)

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

It’s 2025 and I am in a Zoom session that feels like March 2020 in its implementation/facilitation. I want to scream.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

So the Keystone Pipeline, which was rerouted from white suburbs to tribal lands because of the danger of rupture, which a whole bunch of indigenous people got war crimed for for protesting, partly due to the danger of rupture, just ruptured If only someone could have seen this coming

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

I was concerned about submitting an article because its topic falls on the list of things this govt wants to eliminate. But I decided today that the most radical thing I could do was finish it and put it out for consideration. Screw them. Submitted!

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

For academics in the US: the University of Toulouse has quickly put together a program to help bring scholars to France whose work is under attack by the Trump administration. The priorities area are: humanities, climate sciences, health, and space research. en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulous...

submitted 76 days ago • 17 comments

I’m so terrified Kam Man and other shops like this will disappear. They are so important for SO many reasons.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

For the Daily Beast this week, I fix everything.

submitted 75 days ago • 4 comments

Improvisations: Methods and Methodologies in Lifespan Writing Research edited by Ryan J. Dippre and Talinn Phillips is out in print! Get it 40% off with promo code DITA25: upcolorado.com/wac-clearing...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

My 13 yo wanted to watch a film together. He chose The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Timely.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

This made me cry and it really should not have. It is a document of basic decency. Good for Tufts, may the other institutions grow a spine too. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

submitted 80 days ago • 7 comments

The Egyptian pro-democracy activist Wael Ghonim said, "The power of the people is greater than the people in power." This is a checklist of things you can do, probably should do, resources, ideas, ways to move forward. “I just don’t know what to do!!” shouldn’t be something you say now. Here:

submitted 81 days ago • 54 comments

It has been two weeks since a Georgia woman was arrested for her miscarriage, and not one major national outlet has covered the story

submitted 81 days ago • 251 comments

This. I’m a GenX woman, which means my early working years were spent battling extreme sexism to just get by. Then it became this:

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

I don't think much of the higher ed community realizes the extent to which international student enrollment is at risk right now. It seems crazy to think of nearly all international students being banned, but colleges and students need to prepare for that possibility.

submitted 81 days ago • 12 comments

It means something to see our leaders do things we know to be hard. I was cynical about this when it started but I’m really moved. Every day brings new damage and it is all going to be incredibly difficult to undo, but we won’t ever finish if we never start.

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Gosh, the NRA and all the other groups who said we needed 400 million guns to protect our freedom from government tyranny are AWFULLY quiet about the state illegally arresting, holding, and deporting people without process. A cynical person could argue it was never about laws or freedom...

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

Lemme tell you, neither do asst profs in the humanities. Or assoc profs. I have multiple advanced degrees and decades of experience, and my income is just $1000/year above the county low-income line.

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

What leadership looks like.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Exactly. Two of my articles showed up on LibGen. I’m not fussed that they’re there; I despise Zuch for using it to train tech.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

All of this.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

The administration gets bolder each time a strong institution bends the knee. We saw it in media: The LA Times pulls an endorsement. ABC offers a $15m settlement. The WaPo kills op-eds. Now, higher education: WSJ reports that Columbia is caving. Minutes later, White House puts $175m hit on Penn.

submitted 95 days ago • 19 comments

I’m struggling with how calm/“everything is normal” so many people around me are. I’m literally thinking about immediate safety of my family. What are the things keeping you all feeling hopeful we won’t fully fall into a repeat of Hungary or Venezuela in a matter of months??? For real.

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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 @msnbc.com

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