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Nov 11, 2022

I’ve been able to connect with lots of academics on Twitter. If you’re leaving platform, I get it! But I still want to hear your story ideas, tips, and feedback. You can always get in touch at emma.pettit @ chronicle dot com. Save it in your phone for a rainy day 😊

Michael Vasquez

@MrMikeVasquez

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A year ago today, my daughter Audrey was in emergency surgery, after a diagnosis of kidney cancer. We almost lost her. Today, Audrey is cancer-free, back in school, and getting Valentine's gifts from a little boy named Nathan!! You can support Audrey here: gofund.me/d26fdbff

lol askamanager.org/2023/02/the-15

Future U. Podcast

@futureupodcast

Feb 14

Today we released another Reporters' Rountable with guests

@pamkelleyreads

, and

@paulfain

. We discuss High Point University, Governor DeSantis & Florida, and the future of the BA. Listen Now: link.chtbl.com/ujjCP9y9?sid=t

Ring the corny-journalism-tweet alarm: there is no better feeling than the tingles of a promising new story. Old story found dead in a ditch!!!! New story gets all my affection!!!!

Zac Anderson

@zacjanderson

New College hires Richard Corcoran as interim president for $699,000 annually

New College’s previous president made $305,000 a year, received $40,000 for housing and $8,000 for a car allowance. Richard Corcoran will earn $699,000, with $84,000 for housing and $12,000 for car allowance. He also can get a salary bonus of 15%

heraldtribune.com

Florida's former education commissioner will serve as interim president of New College until 2024 or a permanent president is hired.

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A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean?

Emily Lawler

@emilyjanelawler

Feb 14

Tonight I covered an active shooting at the university that taught me how. The whole time I was quietly devastated.

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for enabling this text exchange with my boyfriend

Good burn

Among other things I cannot get over

I cannot get over this guy's glasses

nytimes.com

Yusuke Narita says he is mainly addressing a growing effort to revamp Japan’s age-based hierarchies. Still, he has pushed the country’s hottest button.

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Zac Anderson

@zacjanderson

Trustee Keenan says Corcoran will make $400,000 more than the previous president, a huge increase that she said raises concerns about setting salary expectations too high for future employees at the small school

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@zacjanderson

New College's board is meeting shortly to consider finalizing a contract with former Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran to be interim president. Corcoran would make $699,000 a year and hold the job until Sept. 1, 2024 or until a permanent president is chosen

I do not think you will be able to guess who the keynote is.

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Emily M.

@mosaicofminds

In New York City this April? Care about freedom of speech? @TheFIREorg is hosting a gala at Cipriani 42nd St. on April 18, 2023. Tickets available at thefire.org/gala2023. I probably can't go, so please attend for me, tell me how it went, and say hi to @glukianoff for me.

Feb 11

Got the Renaissance presale code I take this responsibility so seriously 🫡🫡🫡

Feb 10

After three years of board dysfunction and interference, North Idaho College received its last sanction before access to federal aid is cut off:

Accreditor Ratchets Up Pressure on North Idaho College With ‘Show Cause’ Order

After three years of board dysfunction and interference, the college received its last sanction before access to federal aid is cut off.

Ron DeSantis is weaponizing partisan media — and weakening independent sources of news

Jason Garcia

@Jason_Garcia

Feb 9

New: Ron DeSantis is weaponizing partisan media — and weakening independent sources of news

jasongarcia.substack.com

Efforts by the Florida governor and likely presidential candidate to prop up cheerleading conservative outlets — while trying to undermine legitimate journalism — make for a dangerous combination.

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Feb 7

Back in the Midwest and am reminded that if a food item is called a salad there’s about a 30 percent chance it’s a salad

The Chronicle's

's revealing account of how state laws that say what colleges can and can't teach are playing out across the country:

‘This Is How Censorship Happens’

How vague laws and heightened fears are creating a repressive climate on campus.

Higher Ed Regents detail spending, activities on diversity, equity and inclusion at Walters' request

Feb 3

After scrambling to compile the data at the state superintendent's request, Oklahoma regents reported spending less than one-tenth of 1% of state higher ed money on DEI programs over the last decade.

tulsaworld.com

Regents report that less than one-tenth of 1% of state higher education funds have gone to DEI programs over the last decade. #oklaed

This rules

Tom Brady Retires: The Revised Edition

Tom Brady retired again. So we took last year’s article and made a few small edits.

Feb 2

It's a TK better lede, TK better nut graf, TK better transition type of day

David Beard

@dabeard

Hide your books to avoid felony charges, Fla. schools tell teachers

If Florida, teachers are advised to hide their books to avoid felony charges. At one school, “the kids began crying and writing letters to the principal, saying, ‘Please don’t take my books, please don’t do this.’”

washingtonpost.com

Unsure of what titles violate new state rules, two school districts told educators to conceal every book for now.

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Francie Diep

@franciediep

Feb 1

OK, here's my less glib tweet. Gov. Ron DeSantis laid out yesterday a package of legislative proposals to remake public higher ed in Florida. If passed, they'd give politicians extraordinary control over the colleges:

DeSantis’s Higher-Ed Push Just Got Bigger. Fresh Resistance Is Starting to Bubble Up.

Florida’s governor announced a slate of proposed “reforms” that would encroach on campuses’ autonomy.

Feb 1

To everyone who told me to start watching Real Housewives of the Potomac, blessings be upon you

A day after

and I summarized Gov. DeSantis's latest maneuvers, he announced a wide-ranging plan to shake up Florida higher ed even further. Read about that plan, and about some faculty resistance to the governor's broader agenda, here:

DeSantis’s Higher-Ed Push Just Got Bigger. Fresh Resistance Is Starting to Bubble Up.

Florida’s governor announced a slate of proposed “reforms” that would encroach on campuses’ autonomy.

Jack Stripling

@jackstripling

New College's president: “I understand that there is a new mandate for this college. I have been informed that the plan includes the termination of my employment as president."

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If you're a Florida faculty or staff member whose courses/programs are facing scrutiny, we want to know! DM me for my Signal, or reach out at emma.pettit@chronicle.com.

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What's happening in Florida? @franciediep and I make sense of Ron DeSantis's crazy month, with insights from professors whose courses/programs were reported to the state. chronicle.com/article/what-i

What's happening in Florida?

@franciediep

and I make sense of Ron DeSantis's crazy month, with insights from professors whose courses/programs were reported to the state.

What Is Happening in Florida?

Demands for diversity data, a governing-board overhaul, and a pledge to strip “trendy ideology” from higher ed. Is Ron DeSantis just getting started?

What Should You Do When Your Partner Lies About His Earnings?

This person's partner makes 5x more than they do and has been lying about it for months. Call me controversial but my financial advice is to break up!

nytimes.com

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on a financial betrayal — and more.

Stephanie M. Lee

@stephaniemlee

Jan 27

SCOOP: Following alleged bullying at the White House, Eric Lander is back to running a lab at the Broad. According to internal Slack logs, dozens of staffers are alarmed, saying the Broad hasn’t addressed concerns that such behavior could repeat itself.

Eric Lander Left the White House Under a Cloud. Now He’s Back at Work, and Not Everyone’s Happy.

President Biden’s former science adviser is returning to the Broad Institute following allegations of bullying.

"Every once in a while I come across a piece of writing and think -- hey! I would love to have sent a gently condescending email about this piece to a writer who would have ignored 95 percent of my suggestions!"

maxread.substack.com

Editing the New York Times

This newsletter is annoying, sorry

The Scholar Everyone Sought: Claudine Gay, Harvard’s Next President | News | The Harvard Crimson

Miles J. Herszenhorn

@MHerszenhorn

Jan 27

Claudine Gay will make history on July 1, when she becomes Harvard’s 30th president

@claireyuan33

and I dive into her life and academic career for

@thecrimson

’s first cover story of 2023

thecrimson.com

Attempted to get a reservation at Oyster Oyster by signing up for alerts, was emailed about a table suddenly available 6 weeks from now, and in the time it took me to find my credit card and pay the deposit, it was gone. I feel like Ahab right after his leg gets bit off.

Bill: North Dakota presidents could fire tenured faculty

Jan 26

Tenure's death knell is less of a slow steady chime, more of a erratic-toddler-on-the-car-horn vibe

insidehighered.com

North Dakota’s House majority leader has filed legislation that would let the presidents of Dickinson State, Bismarck State and perhaps other colleges review tenured faculty at any time—and fire

Jan 26

Ok who did this nytimes.com/2023/01/21/bus

Jan 25

The energy emanating from my draft

Will a small, quirky Florida college become ‘DeSantis U’?

Jack Stripling

@jackstripling

Jan 23

No grades, no frats, and (sometimes) no shoes: A Florida college finds itself in DeSantis's crosshairs.

washingtonpost.com

After Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed six new trustees at New College of Florida, faculty, students and alumni see themselves as unwitting conscripts in a politicized battle over education.

Jan 24

Aside from all the other losses, KidsPost is great! Such a good resource for both kids and adult learners who want to interact with the news in an approachable way. I use the links regularly and am very bummed it will be no more.

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Sara Fischer

@sarafischer

Jan 24

More details on @washingtonpost layoffs, per memo from Executive Editor Sally Buzbee: — 20 newsroom positions eliminated — 30 open positions will not be filled — WaPo is sunsetting Launcher, its online gaming vertical, and KidsPost, per two sources familiar Memo below: twitter.com/sarafischer/st…