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Justine S. Murison

@jsmurison.bsky.social

C19 enthusiast | Professor and Head of English at UIUC | Out now! Faith in Exposure from PennPress

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Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

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Asha Rangappa@asharangappa.bsky.social · last yr.

Many students were recently admitted to Harvard (to various programs), and even if Harvard gets an injunction the students may choose to go elsewhere thinking it’s risky and the may end up having to transfer. Even if Noem loses in court it has caused irreparable damage, at least for coming year 1/

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · last yr.

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Evan Torner@guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · last yr.

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

Eleanor Courtemanche@ecourtem.bsky.social · last yr.

This was an amazing event: celebrating my excellent colleagues in the UIUC English Department 🥇🥇🥇 Maybe Shelley’s banned poem “England in 1819” was quoted 😭 Maybe the words “darkness” and “storms” came up a lot in the speeches ⛈️ But we are all still working very hard to do our best ♥️

LAS Dean Venetria Patton kicking off a named professor investiture ceremony for Janice Harrington, Curtis Perry, and Gillen Wood
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2y ago

👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.

Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2y ago

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.