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Senior Lecturer in English at Elon University. Compositionist. Former WPA, current First-Year Experience person. Writer. Modern transcendentalist.
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The Assembly has been selected as one of six newsrooms in the first cohort of the NOTUS Washington Bureau Initiative. Read the full announcement below. www.theassemblync.com/internal/the...

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This week i sat down with the @theguardian.com and talked about our little band of resistors. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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For all of us living in English but born elsewhere... * "Doesn’t the beauty and strength of the English language lie precisely in its hybridity and therefore "impurity"- its remarkable ability to adapt, evolve, and embrace a stunning range of styles (...)?" elifshafak.substack.com/p/write-your...

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Five things I achieved last week: - Naps - Snoozes - Resting my eyes - Dozing - Writing this list

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Grades don’t always tell the full story of student success. A recent TLI article explores how students who struggle and improve may gain more from a course than those who maintain high GPAs—raising questions about how we measure learning. Learn more: issotl.com/2025/01/29/r...

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We need the federal government’s partnership to help western NC recover, and I’m extremely concerned about cuts that would cripple our long-term housing recovery. I raised this concern yesterday with the administration.

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One of those days here in North Carolina. (Both of these were taken in Greensboro 3 hours apart) #ncwx

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"What if, instead of devising evermore dystopian ways to efficiently manage 800 students a semester, we simply hired more teachers and created smaller classes?" open.substack.com/pub/emilypit...

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For over 20 years, I've been at schools affiliated w the Council of Independent Colleges; in my experience, CIC has been an unflinching advocate for higher education. So I'm unsurprised, but still heartened, to see this from CIC president Marjorie Hass today. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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A special #Caturday this week: today is the 14th anniversary of my arrival on Downing Street.

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The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

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I’m a member of the advisory board for Penguin Random House Higher Education’s First-Year Reads department. These are books by authors who will be at next week’s annual Conference on the First-Year Experience, so I am reading in preparation. Not the worst job in the world.

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A single word can be a lie. For example, journalists are still calling what Musk and his child army have been doing an operation in pursuit of government efficiency.... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/to-use-their...

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New episode from The Broadside podcast does a pretty good job of unpacking the complexity around efforts to amend the 1956 Lumbee Act. www.wunc.org/podcast/the-...

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New essay out in @gardenandgun.com, on newsstands and online now: gardenandgun.com/feature/reme...

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"Meanwhile the difference between reducing and eliminating all the leased space seems more or less like the difference between a haircut and the guillotine." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/maybe-you-sh...

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Such an entertaining read;

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Apt argument for people and land/neighborhoods, too.

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I’m not seeing Wicked, the movie, because it irritates me that people are telling me things about it that they would already have experienced if they had bothered to see Wicked, the musical.

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