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mmlarthur.bsky.social
Sociologist of Higher Education. Union president. Teacher. Failed repairer of broken worlds. Fresserin. RIer. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3180-4058
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Just before midnight, my father breathed his last breath. These months of his illness have been awful, and I am relieved that he was able to meet his end mostly on his own terms. May there be abundant peace from heaven, and a good life, for us, those he has left behind.

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See also "Domination and the Arts of Resistance"

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Just look at what they did to Rho sland

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The Caring University is now available for pre-order! It's about structural and cultural change to improve the higher ed workplace. See the ToC ⬇️ I'd be grateful if you would consider reposting to your networks to spread the word. tinyurl.com/6kk9fryt

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When we unionized a few years ago, a lot of peanut gallery types on social media wanted to tell me it would be the end of Wired. Hope it’s now clear (thanks mostly to our insanely talented and hardworking politics team) that it does not work that way. Unions are good.

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This is the goal. As @jessicacalarco.bsky.social has written, these folks think if you get sick it's because you deserved it.

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Having sat on hiring committees for both faculty and staff (the staff ones being where administrators have the primary say) I agree there are problem with the faculty hiring process and also am 100% certain that if faculty were not the primary voices in faculty hiring everything would be much worse.

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The power of qualitative data.

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Hey DEI & LGBTQ nonprofits: Some wealthy donors are scared to give now in case of blowback. Maybe let them know they can give to you via their DAF (donor advised fund) with guaranteed anonymity. It won’t be on their own tax return and their name won’t be on your 990 or even in your database

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So we can't write articles about women, or have affinity groups for women, or have clubs for women engineers. But somehow we can still have women's restrooms. How long until they ban those in the guise of protecting women? They didn't used to exist: theweek.com/articles/621...

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Important read from @cantb.bsky.social on what higher ed can do in this moment. www.chronicle.com/article/high...

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First they cut arts & humanities funding. And universities said "we must follow a ROI-based budget model" Then they came for critical race theory, mischaracterizing what it is And universities did nothing Then they came for sociology, mischaracterizing what it is And universities did nothing ...

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Looking for another action to take? Sign on to this letter to Congressional leadership.

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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

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Educators using AI need to consider the political implications of participating in the future imagined by the tech bros who are taking over our government.

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This is something we do well here with our Northeast Neighbors program: www.ric.edu/admissions-f... (an expansion of a prior program that offered discounted tuition for those within 50 miles but beyond state boarders).

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Sharing this from my sister... First, they came for the undocumented immigrants and people of color, and they did not speak out—because they were not undocumented immigrants or people of color. Then they came for the LGBTQI+ community, and they did not speak out—because they were not LGBTQI+.1/4

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This is a scary time to be queer, but being queer also brings the security of knowing that every time they've tried to extinguish us, we've fought back and changed the world.

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