It's our responsibility to make the most out of the online semester

We need to find ways to stay virtually engaged with our professors and each other this semester to maximize our learning.
Dish of the Week: The Berliner's chicken fennel sausage

The dish was made with fennel, herbs and white wine, and I topped it off with caramelized onions and beer cheese sauce.
Don't take advantage of professors during the online semester

There are students who truly need accommodations – don't be the person to play a crackling noise on your computer to get out of answering a question.

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articles from Inside Higher Ed

Live Updates: Latest News on Coronavirus and Higher Education

Sacred Heart Threatens to Send Students Home Sept.24, 6:25 a.m. The president of Sacred Heart University, in Connecticut, threatened to send […]
Colleges award tenure

Briar Cliff University David Hoferer, biology/environmental science Daniel Jung, biology Oregon State University Sergio Arispe, animal and […]
Survey identifies strengths of student veterans

A new research article identifies the strengths that students who are military veterans bring with them to higher education. Katie Sullivan and Kay […]

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articles from the Chronicle of Higher Ed

Why I Quit Academe for a Coding Boot Camp

With the tenure-track market stalled, a history Ph.D. was urged to pursue Plan B. Unfortunately, he says, the alt-ac career trajectory is broken, too.
Reopening for In-Person Classes May Have Caused Thousands of Covid-19 Cases a Day, Study Finds

The resumption of face-to-face instruction, which prompted far more students to return to campuses, resulted in 1,000 to 5,000 additional cases per day.
Staff Get Little to No Say in Campus Governance. That Must Change.

As professors and administrators debate how to reimagine academe after Covid-19, that reform must include a greater voice for staff members.

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from the New York Times

How the Unpredictable Coronavirus Pandemic Took a Terrible Toll

At least 73 countries are seeing surges in newly detected cases, and in regions where cold weather is approaching, worries are mounting.
This Is the Casual Racism That I Face at My Elite High School

Amazingly, the school did something to fix it.
College Football’s Worst Fear in the Pandemic: The Death of a Player

Jamain Stephens was known as a big man on campus. His death raised questions about how his university is handling the coronavirus and prompted athletes to think about their own risks.

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articles from the Washington Post

A novel proposal to help millions of kids struggling with online school

Read about a proposed Digital Learning Ambassadors program.
How QAnon is spreading during the pandemic — and more lessons on fake news

From the News Literacy Project.
29-hour meeting ends with Miami school board voting to reopen schools next month

The Broward County school board also voted to reopen in October.

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The Undercommons

Battling with the University for the University: Organizing, Friendship, and Performativity in the NYU Sanctuary Movement

[Photo: Ryan Quan from NYU News] by James McMaster and Olivia Michiko Gagnon What follows is not an account of escalating strategies and spectacular confrontations. That can be found in the news. Consider this a fragmentary homage to and audit of the ideological and intimate micropolitics of […]
Join us for our first open online strategy session March 25, 3:45pm EST

All those who struggle within, against and beyond the neoliberal, neocolonial university are invited to join us on March 25 (15:45-17:15 EST) for a special online/offline strategy session, broadcasting live from the Organizing Equality conference in London, Ontario. This session aims to share and […]
CFP: From Sanctuary to Sabotage: Fighting the Fascist Creep at and beyond Universities

CALL FOR PROVOCATIONS (April 30, 2017) The 2016 US election has been framed as both a decisive break from “politics as usual” and as a continuation and intensification of longstanding racialized, gendered, and sexualized global class warfare. In this allegedly post-truth era, the university […]