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Joined January 2009
The inversion was revealing. Students disrupted the invited speaker. Other students documented the disruption. The institution’s warning went to the students who documented it. Read @ProfessorSethO on Minding The Campus: mindingthecampus.org/2026/10…
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Proud to see our work in Minding the Campus driving the national debate. Over at Brownstone Institute, @rsgonner builds on Christopher Morales’s piece tackling how AI exposes deeper educational flaws. Read here: brownstone.org/articles/comp…
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"The MIT report calls for drastic measures to keep a college education relevant and valuable. Strikingly, the report urges professors to increase in-person interaction with students." Read more by Timothy Minella: mindingthecampus.org/2026/10…
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many colleges and universities relaxed their admissions processes by eliminating SAT or ACT scores as part of the decision-making process. Instead, test-optional admissions policies became popular... Read the rest of the NAS CounterCurrent: nas.org/blogs/article/are-un…
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"Even if it means students will have to do even less thinking for themselves, colleges and universities have little choice but to incorporate some kind of AI instruction into their curricula if they want to remain relevant to employers and continue selling themselves as pathways to good jobs." Must read piece by @J_Gould_ on higher ed's current shortcomings compared to what employers are looking for. mindingthecampus.org/2026/10…
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Groundbreaking Scholarship! Next time you spot a stray urban animal, remember: you’re not looking at a pest, you’re witnessing a decolonial revolution against human-centric oppression. "... adopting the critical framework of resilience thinking and assuming its capacity to create decolonial narratives of survival and healing, I contend that it is possible to interrogate the boundaries that characterize the Anthropocene—between nature and culture, humans and non-humans..." It really takes a fully funded university professor to turn a stroll through the park into a high-stakes battle against binary human-animal hierarchies. atlantisjournal.org/index.ph…
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