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Associate Professor of Higher Ed | Co-Director of the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges | Columnist at The Chronicle of Higher Education (Working Better) | Author of The Caring University (JHUP, 2025)
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It means a lot to me that you're reading it. I know that sounds silly, but you write a book so people will read it. So, I just really appreciate that the ideas are being engaged. Thank you!
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True story! I don't actually feel guilt about saying no. I'm mainly getting a lot of messages asking if I want to collaborate on stuff, and they're all very nice people. I'm having to say no to all of them, and it would be easier if I had a sign haha.
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Talks are easier. What I can't really do are collaborative writing projects. Summer/fall is fairly full (but not impossible). Spring is very open!
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That's a great idea!
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Naturally, I love this and am grateful :)
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In the interest of having good data for social listening, be sure to post about it 😜
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Yay!!! I’m so excited to see it out in the world but extra extra happy when friends get it.
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I’d love that! There’s a chapter on employee rights and voice that talks about workplace democracy. You might like that chapter in particular :)
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Thank you for all your support, Robert!
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I’m assuming it’s predicated on having text first?
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I suppose it's also not *not* scholarship, in the sense of scholarship as synthesis and crafting an original presentation/argument. Sometimes pulling in multiple sources beyond your own work, too.
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I’m so excited! Hope it resonates or is helpful
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(honestly, we're all just here for Tressie)
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Folks are still recycling the "coddling" argument in different forms. A leader expressing emotions after a tragedy is somehow framing everything in terms of mental health. Alerting students to the existence of counseling is infantilizing. These folks should probably not read my book 😜
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Equally shocking that I don't think institutions paying attention to well-being and their special responsibility to care for the communities they serve is the problem that this particular editor at The Chronicle thinks it is. We can be thinking and feeling people at the same time!
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That’s what I thought, but I dunno how they’d feel about the Betty Crocker box…
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My kiddo
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One step at a time!
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Ah geez. Rookie move.
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What’s wild though is, like, this stuff is not easy! It’s time intensive and there’s not really a playbook. So if it’s something presses look for, I wonder how often they see it.