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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 😊

Adrienne Lu

@adriennelu

The Chronicle's

@nellgluckman

'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…

Officials release moniker principles, ruling out Hippos

Jan 24

Imo every college mascot should be kind of stupid. The sillier the better. I see you, UC Santa Cruz banana slugs. And I see YOU, Evergreen State geoducks.

Don't let this vital higher ed news pass you buy: Some GW students want the Hippos to be the U's new nickname. But admin said a hippo does not align with their guiding principles of "shaping the future" and being "free to be bold." Agree to disagree!

gwhatchet.com

The release states that the Hippos moniker, or any variation of it, does not align with officials' guiding principles and "will not be considered."

West Virginia University is changing its evaluation, promotion, tenure, and termination policies. Faculty members are (unsurprisingly) not thrilled:

insidehighered.com

Hundreds of WVU faculty oppose changes to evaluation, tenure

West Virginia University proposed changes to its evaluation, promotion, tenure and termination policies. Hundreds of faculty members have now registered their opposition.

Around every corner

is evidence of

’s indelible impact on our newsroom. Gone but never forgotten.

Jan 23

That's a new one nytimes.com/2023/01/16/hea

Jan 20

Scrolling through my source spreadsheet and came across this description of someone's expertise, that I wrote: "snakes, sexism at academic conferences"

Eric Kelderman

@etkeld

Jan 20

Among the four-year universities, all reported amounts for those activities that came to 1 percent or less of their budgets. Great reporting idea from

@franciediep

and

DeSantis Asked Florida Universities to Detail Their Diversity Spending. Here’s How They Answered.

The amounts the state’s public universities reported spending on diversity and critical race theory came out to 1 percent or less of their overall budgets.

lol nevermind

The return-to-office perk your boss won’t mention: Gossip is back on

Office gossip isn't always bad for employee morale -- it can be empowering or at least entertaining.

I would like to pitch an editor a style story on how — with return-to-work in full swing and employees giving less fucks than ever — office gossip is good again. This pitch has been honed in several text threads and is solid. Please hire me.

New from

and me: Gov. DeSantis asked Florida universities to detail their spending on diversity and critical race theory. Every U reported spending 1 percent or less of their budgets on those activities:

DeSantis Asked Florida Universities to Detail Their Diversity Spending. Here’s How They Answered.

The amounts the state’s public universities reported spending on diversity and critical race theory came out to 1 percent or less of their overall budgets.

Harvard Reverses Course on Human Rights Advocate Who Criticized Israel

Jan 19

Harvard reverses its decision to block a fellowship for

@KenRoth

, longtime director of Human Rights Watch, over the org's criticism of Israel. The dean said his decision had been an “error."

nytimes.com

News that the university had blocked a fellowship for the former head of Human Rights Watch stirred debate over academic freedom and donor influence.

Jan 18

A note that it's not university presidents. It's presidents of Florida's 28 public community and state colleges. Florida also has 12 public U's, like UF and UCF, under its state university system.

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Christopher F. Rufo

@realchrisrufo

Jan 18

EXCLUSIVE: All of the Florida public university presidents have released this letter pledging to reign in their D.E.I. departments and ensure that they are not promoting left-wing racialist ideology and political activism. The momentum is starting to shift. Keep pressing.

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