I won’t equate my or my colleagues’ experiences as academics* with the more vulnerable communities targeted by the Trump administration. But there are some developments I’d like to share as an academic in a red state working at a public university. 1/
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i feel for the faculty there. what a nightmare.
hell yes I am hostile to red state gov'ts.
absolutely if you can leave a red state to study elsewhere and you don't, you are complicit
I spent 15 years in Oaxaca and China teaching poor students.
no young woman can risk thinking "it can't happen to me"
we have to offer in state tuition prices in blue states for them
And this is what entirely determined US technological hegemony in the second half of the 20th century to date.
Today's academics don't seem to care to enact their awesome power.
i spent 15 years abroad teaching. i get not wanting to abandon those who can't leave but leave if you can
it isn't the school itself, as I said I feel for professors who don't have that choice, but the entire environment itself.
I think staging a massive walkout is the only response......
This sounds nightmarish.
I’ve just this evening been in a town-hall meeting with the dean of our college. 2/
I feel it is the time por academics to join forces, defend DEI , defend life !
The same in the corporate world and others!!
Recall election to find someone that wants to do the job?
The fact that these states are targeting women and girls is that much worse.
But it seems to me that these red states are pushing out medical and academic doctors when they need them more.
Wish you the best
(alumnus, BSME 2003)