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1. The right-wing wants to wage class war over student debt, painting a picture of elite leftist 'gender studies' majors working as Starbucks baristas
The reality? California's desperate middle-class kids living in their cars in the Walmart parking lot, or couch surfing (Thread)
The reality? California's desperate middle-class kids living in their cars in the Walmart parking lot, or couch surfing (Thread)
2. My new column asks how the hell the American Dream of an affordable college education in the Golden State devolved from free tuition to this fall's hellscape of thousands of struggling, unhoused students from San Diego to Santa Cruz inquirer.com/opinion/colleg…
3. It's a sad but maybe inevitable new chapter to the theme of my new book, After the Ivory Tower Falls, which shows how America's failure to embrace higher ed as a public good has cheated generations of young people amazon.com/After-Ivory-To…
So proud to call you a friend and colleague, @saragoldrickrab, and glad to have had the opportunity to collaborate with you in so many ways over the years. Your work with #RealCollege students has fundamentally transformed my own research, writing, and teaching.
Most of my work over the last decade has been centered around a simple premise that we need to "start by trusting students." This means we need to ask students when and how they learn, ask what barriers they face, then listen, and believe the answers.
For years, I've pushed back on the notion of "best practices." In their place, I've advocated for good-for-some-people-in-some-contexts practices, because the work of teaching is deeply idiosyncratic. But there are structural barriers for so many teachers and students.
Some thoughts on David Leonhardt's shallow, decidedly un-objective analysis that substitutes narrative for depth of consideration. #realcollege insidehighered.com/blogs/just-vis…
There's lots of good reasons for some people to be worried about contracting Covid that aren't about their own possible demise. Leonhardt writes from the perspective for someone who assumes a week-long illness is a mere inconvenience. insidehighered.com/blogs/just-vis…
There is data available the the survey that the Times commissioned that would shed more light on the nuances of what people are worried about, but they chose not to share it. insidehighered.com/blogs/just-vis… 
Just so my non-academic friends are clear: no one, absolutely no one, wants to be the chair of an academic department. ESPECIALLY an English department.
Reasons you might do it anyway:
- you’re in a decent dept that takes turns (uncommonish)
- your school calculates retirement based on highest earning years & the temporary bump will mean something (slightly more common)
- the alternative is a nightmare (often)
- you’re in a decent dept that takes turns (uncommonish)
- your school calculates retirement based on highest earning years & the temporary bump will mean something (slightly more common)
- the alternative is a nightmare (often)
Also, it’s kinda like electing a Pope: you really, really don’t want to elect anyone who jumps at the “opportunity” quickly & without hesitation.
Seeing some positive signs of shifts in the broader cultural conversation about higher ed today. A big one is a long story on community college students in Tennessee focused on how they've been harmed by the pandemic. nytimes.com/2021/04/02/us/…
It has been a genuinely rare thing for the Times to write about higher ed outside of the rarefied air of so-called "elite" campuses, and they've done it twice in three days. This story covered @hope4college's new report on #RealCollege challenges. nytimes.com/2021/03/30/wor…
Still there's more! A good write-up on a new @EdTrust report on how to steer state funding towards equity metrics so all students have access to sufficient resources. insidehighered.com/news/2021/04/0…
The NYT has some of the best education reporters in the country, but stories like this are why so many people who work in and around higher ed see it as a force for harm.
There are thousands of homeless college students. But they NYT thinks choice real estate is what this moment is about. Most students are not "renting giant houses with friends — sometimes in far-flung locales."
People are worrying that they will be evicted right now, but "groups of students have named their college houses and made them social media official, creating shared accounts where they plan to post about their lives together."
What will #realcollege look like in the fall?
The institutions like the ones in this NYT article represent only about 1/2 of US higher ed -- private & public 4 year not-for-profits.
What happens for the other half: 2 year & for-profit institutions?
nytimes.com/2020/06/03/mag…
The institutions like the ones in this NYT article represent only about 1/2 of US higher ed -- private & public 4 year not-for-profits.
What happens for the other half: 2 year & for-profit institutions?
nytimes.com/2020/06/03/mag…
"Ohio State is a large community of 100,000 people."
So quaint.
@CUNY has 257,000 students. Was there a reason that the NYT snubbed the largest higher ed institution in its city?
So quaint.
@CUNY has 257,000 students. Was there a reason that the NYT snubbed the largest higher ed institution in its city?
The stories we tell about coronavirus matter. College isn't just dorms and football games. In fact, 1 in 3 college students don't go the types of colleges they are talking about in this article; they go to for-profit schools or 2 year colleges. What is happening there?
Shout out to @econroy_1 who kicked off this webinar with a breathing exercise -- self-care is so important right now. @saragoldrickrab @hope4college #CovidCampus
"A lot of these students won't be here in the fall if we don't take care of them now." @saragoldrickrab #RealCollege #CovidCampus
Know your students: they may be thinking more about food, housing, or childcare than they are about their education right now. @saragoldrickrab #RealCollege #CovidCampus
Thank you, @bfister. Having a stable job ≠ monotony.
@bfister "The grind of gig work is its own kind of monotony. The anxiety of always seeking work and never knowing security is not the kind of “flexibility” anyone wants." @bfister 👏👏👏 barbarafister.net/libraries/dear…
Student parents need more support with #KidsOnCampus. We see across thousands of parents & guardians in our research that childcare services, designated family-friendly spaces, and tutoring or afterschool services would be highly valued on campus. sr.ithaka.org/publications/s…
Proud to work with institutions like @MonroeCC that are leveraging our research to implement family-friendly study rooms in @mcc_library to support students and their #KidsOnCampus: chronicle.com/article/How-Li…
@MonroeCC @mcc_library Grateful to @saragoldrickrab for drawing attention to policies that prevent needed services like these from being offered and to all those who are now sharing their stories & experiences. #KidsOnCampus #RealCollege
Joining now! Really looking forward to the discussion.
Learning about @AmarilloCollege's Advocacy and Resource Center, home to the Adult Students Program, the Amarillo College Clothing Closet, the Amarillo College Food Pantry, and Social Services: actx.edu/arc/
@AmarilloCollege What is the role of the library in combating food and housing security? Emily Gilbert, library director at @AmarilloCollege, shares: providing guidance toward campus resources, building up social justice collections, allowing students to sleep in the library when they need it.
I'm sitting down to work on my Income-Based Repayment recertification for my student loans. I decided to live-tweet the process.
I've been told and seen people defend the annual recertification requirement, saying it’s "easy," just log in, spend a quick few minutes, and done. I want to talk about what "easy" has looked like for me.
I’ve been in the IBR program since January 2012. I graduated in May 2010. I didn’t know IBR existed until 18 months after I graduated.
As more & more students struggle to pay for college, 30% may be going hungry. Students shouldn’t have to choose between paying tuition & eating.
That’s why I’ve got a bill to ensure college students can succeed without going hungry. #RealCollege masslive.com/politics/2019/…
That’s why I’ve got a bill to ensure college students can succeed without going hungry. #RealCollege masslive.com/politics/2019/…
My College Student Hunger Act with @RepAlLawsonJr would:
❌ Expand access to SNAP for more low-income students
❌ Increase outreach to eligible students
❌ Require @usedgov & @USDA to connect eligible students with SNAP
❌ Expand access to SNAP for more low-income students
❌ Increase outreach to eligible students
❌ Require @usedgov & @USDA to connect eligible students with SNAP
Food insecurity is a real, structural problem that’s another barrier between low-income students & the chance to finally get a college education. The College Student Hunger Act will tackle this problem head-on. We can fix this. #RealCollege
@Romano_PoliSci @williamadler78 @cmMcConnaughy I’m running to class now but am butting in so I remember to come back later with resources. #OER is an answer to all of this (including the challenge of finding level-appropriate, high quality materials).
@Romano_PoliSci @williamadler78 @cmMcConnaughy okay, i'm back! and i'm tagging in @michaelgmiller because he was interested too. if you don't love the textbook you teach with currently, or you worry about the cost to students, you are not alone, and there is a solution- #OER!!!!
@Romano_PoliSci @williamadler78 @cmMcConnaughy @michaelgmiller on need, check out the #RealCollege stuff coming from the Hope @hope4college & @saragoldrickrab - here's their latest report hope4college.com/college-and-un…
"45% of respondents were food insecure in the prior 30 days
56% of respondents were housing insecure in the previous year"
"45% of respondents were food insecure in the prior 30 days
56% of respondents were housing insecure in the previous year"
some #RealCollege stories from today. Student asking for an extension because of friends suicide and funeral. Prof refused without documentation. Faculty, treat your students with love.
#StudentsAreAumansFirst #RealCollege
#StudentsAreAumansFirst #RealCollege
Next up Undoc student who needed accommodation on when to take a midterm so she could appear in Immigration Court. Syllabus-no exceptions. That made the professor unapproachable from the start. Real life impacts students in the classroom.
#StudentsAreHumansFirst #RealCollege
#StudentsAreHumansFirst #RealCollege
Oh boy. Black woman, sits down in class, first word that comes up in the professor's presentation for the day is the N-word. Whole class of (mostly) white students turns to look at her seeing how she will respond. This one should be easy. Throwing that word around is never ok!
@chronicle has published another piece arguing that #highered is out of touch with regular Americans and disliked by them. It stages the eternal battle between a dynamic society and backward educators. The conclusion is always the same: colleges must "change how they do business"
The frame is compiled from Republican talking points, particularly that college means liberal brainwashing. bit.ly/2tyh31u
@karinfischer puts this out there as though it were a common opinion, not a refutable falsehood (start w @AaronRHanlon bit.ly/2SeAINK) /2
@karinfischer puts this out there as though it were a common opinion, not a refutable falsehood (start w @AaronRHanlon bit.ly/2SeAINK) /2
The culture wars discussion goes on for a long time, hitting themes we've heard since the 1980s. They are all about how #highered has been bad--has failed the reasonable expectations of the economy and society. Us must repent and conform to the surrounding society. /3
Okay, friends, gather around for a story about why open access textbooks are so incredibly important (shared with permission of the student).
I had a student come into my office yesterday - I've worked with her for awhile now. She's an incredibly hard worker, resilient as hell, one of those students that makes the job worth it.
We were talking about some family issues she's been dealing with and then she sort of paused. She said she needed to go so she could try to talk to her professors about something.
