#Colleges

Ben Wolman

bythewolman

Yikes. Absurd, irresponsible for Columbia to place burden of their ill-considered plan on faculty and grad students. Onus is ultimately on administration, but undergraduates should consider their influence too. Building

Sarah McIntyre🦄🚀✨

jabberworks

Fascinating academic article (via @mrphoenix) on drawing as language. Highlights the importance of gaining mental tools through copying pictures, and implies that children would benefit from regular exposure to comics

David Perell

david_perell

The future of education looks like Y Combinator.Here are 10 things schools can learn from the program:1. Make the test matter: In school, most tests are boring and unimportant. At

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

Black Liberation: A Reminderby Muntu (Phil Holder)February 20, 1975The Paper | City College of New York (CCNY) Sister Martha Pitts, an activist in the Black Liberation struggle here in America,

SparrowHawkCloud

hawk_cloud

1.) I often speak about purging & cleansing all that negatively consumes our spirits & minds. I speak from experience of holding onto traumas & tragedies that took me away

Sandeep Vaheesan

sandeepvaheesan

I am finally reading the cert-stage filings in NCAA v. Alston. The NCAA and allies argue its employer cartel is a "product design" choice and accordingly should be protected from

Womens Voices Matter

Womens_Voices_

Solidarity with the women and girls of the US whose sex based rights have been stolen by the new administration. Sex discrimination in the US has been legalised with obfuscating

Jake Anbinder

JakeAnbinder

Nine months later I still cannot entirely wrap my head around the fact that getting a covid test is useful from a national statistical point of view but is much

Aditya Mukerjee, the Otterrific 🦦 🏳️‍🌈

chimeracoder

once again, the Democratic party is choosing to actively harm poor and working class people in order to pander to an artificial image of a class that doesn't actually existhttps://twitter.com/mstratford/status/1361887361395789824

Ben Williamson

BenPatrickWill

Few people have asked what's the problem and what's the solution to big tech involvement in HE.Problems first:https://twitter.com/BenPatrickWill/status/1327387541193043968 Problem 1: Tendency to construct HE as broken. An old trick,

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

Have received scores of messages from downgraded students. Here are a few. Firstly, David. He goes to an FE college in Gateshead. He's the first in his family to go

Ned "The Lip" Barnett 🏳️‍🌈

TheNedBarnett

I've been thinking about this thread for the last two days, because comics and history and museums are very very very dear to my heart!I keep thinking about HOW we

Danny 😷

danny_doucette

Gender in Physics, edition: a thread (graphs first, citations in-thread)Only 20-25% of bachelors's degrees in physics are earned by women (similar to ). That's a known issue, and

Dr. Rebecca Kreitzer

rebeccakreitzer

Standard evaluations of teaching (SETs) are problematic bc of known measurement & equity bias. In this new pub, @jenniesweetcush & I provide a comprehensive but nuanced overview of the literature.

19thnews

19thnews

1/ Howard University is where it all began for Kamala Harris. In her acceptance speech at Wednesday night's Democratic National Convention, she counted her "HBCU brothers and sisters" as her

Mari Brighe

MariBrighe

Okay, I try not to dunk on Twitter knobs, but this is just...Federal judges: *issues extensive, exhaustively reasoned and cited dismissal rulings on Trump’s lawsuits in several states, explaining lack

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