I had a student who spend the first thirteen years of her life in a refugee camp in Nepal that had no electricity or running water. THIRTEEN YEARS. And now she's here, with English as her fourth language, pursuing a bachelor's degree. My students have these stories. /12
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Do some of my students do silly things, or make poor choices? Sure; but that's college. Hell, I do those things and I'm a damn full professor. All of my students, though, are here for an opportunity that, for many of them, would not be available elsewhere. And they know it /13
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Almost all of my students work while attending school, many of them in multiple jobs. Some of them work third shift at the UPS shipping center down the road and then roll into class after a 10 hrs of loading trucks. Some are also athletes on top of that. They WORK. /14
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So when someone like Dinesh D'Souza tries to own me by saying I work at a university "no one has heard of," what he's really doing (besides showing his entire ass to the internet) is disparaging my colleagues and my students. And I will not let that pass uncontested. /15
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@GrandViewUniv work harder than DDS has in his entire life. We may not be Ivy Leaguers, but we know the value of higher education, because nothing's been handed to us. We don't have the luxury of a grifter-industrial complex throwing money at us to honk in public /1610 replies 98 retweets 1,965 likesShow this thread -
I am damn proud to be where I am, and where I've been for 15 years now, because I know what I do matters. What I do advances higher education, makes access real for students, and creates a net good for society. My own PhD serves a greater good, and that means something to me. /17
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But most of all, I am proud of my students, and everything they do for their education. I'm honored to be part of the journey for some of the hardest working and most deserving people I've ever seen. You come for them, you come for me and for my colleagues. And we don't play. /18
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And here's the thing: there are a lot of folks at schools a lot like mine doing this same kind of work. The universities "Nobody's heard of" literally make this country go. We're out here doing work, y'all. We support entire communities. We make our part of the world better. /19
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Because here's the thing: what you *do* with your education is what really matters. I will pit my record and those of my students against anything D'Souza and his super-fancy ivy league degree have done to make the world better. And it wouldn't even be a close contest /20
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So NOW you've heard of me and my university, Dinesh. Now get out of our way; there's work to do. /fin
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He is seriously a snotty wtf.
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