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Jessie Starling

@jstarling.bsky.social

Chair of Religious Studies at Lewis & Clark | Author of Guardians of the Buddha's Home | Research interests: being a Buddhist laywoman in modern Japan; ethics and emotions in religious volunteerism; religion in public in contemporary Japan

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Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2d ago

Whatever else was wrong with the United States, we truly did have a higher education system that was the envy of the world. Now we’re lighting it on fire because some people are bored and racist.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2d ago

There will probably be far fewer foreign students on college campuses nationwide this fall following the Trump administration’s crackdown on international visas. A new report predicts international enrollment will decrease by 9.5 percent this fall.

Rachit Dubey@rachitdubey.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

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Zachary Levenson@grundrza.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

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jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 7mo ago

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Donovan Schaefer@feelingtheory.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Religious Studies friends, a question: I'm writing a response to the 2nd ed of Critical Terms for Religious Studies (2025). The first one was before my time, academically (1998), but some of its chapters--especially Smith (RRR) and Sharf (Experience)--cast long shadows on my grad school years -->

John Halloran@profhalloran.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors. $33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.

Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com · 9mo ago

SOURCES: Michigan State is firing head coach Jonathan Smith, @theathletic.com has learned. He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported). MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).

Dan Sinykin@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 10mo ago

i am feeling, i am seeing, i am hearing, i am getting the vibes, that students this sem are better than they've been in years because learning offers a rare haven from authoritarianism, a place to convene, commune, think together, refuel for the fight

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10mo ago

week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions

NY Times Pitchbot@nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Opinion | I’ve dedicated my career to promoting free speech on college campuses. Here’s why the murder of a red state college dropout by another red state college dropout means it’s time to fire liberal professors in blue states.

Brad Simpson@bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The attack on core departments, tenured, and tenure track faculty is now accelerating in blue states, building upon the assault on NTT colleagues. Far from resisting Trump’s assault on higher ed, University admins in Democratic run states are spraying fuel on the fire to make it burn faster.

Sasha Senderovich 🌻@returnstosender.bsky.social · 12mo ago

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.
Jessie Starling@jstarling.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I found this website full of usable resources as well as "solidarity solace for educators who might find themselves inventing wheels alone while their administrators, trustees, and bosses unrelentingly hype AI and nakedly enthuse the negative consequences for educator labor."

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12mo ago

good morning happy back to school to all who celebrate, happy one week of summer left to all the syllabus scramblers, happy grr to the quarter system people, here's some help for all of us in the college classroom against-a-i.com