I don't understand how their programs can offer bachelor degrees when their faculty are not required to have more than a masters degree

CalMatters@calmatters.org · 2h ago

Why community colleges no longer back this effort to help them offer more bachelor’s degrees California community colleges initially backed two bills to help them issue more bachelor’s degrees. Last-minute changes killed their support.

Anyone know of journals open to long essays? A lil over 10k words. I’m at a loss as to where to send this piece about Manet, Blackness, poetry, and travel.

The dialect map is telling me Illinois (?!) despite the city matches being all in the west. I'm feeling unrepresented

I know I already posted about this...but to reiterate: Anthropic copyright settlement authors, PLEASE contact me (Writer Beware) if your publisher is making a claim on a book whose rights have reverted, or claiming anything other than a 50/50 split on an in-contract book. beware@sfwa.org

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2d ago

FINALLY: If anyone gets a response from a publisher that is something along the lines of "yeah, we just asserted ownership for all titles that had our name listed as publisher regardless of reversion status" PLEASE send that information to me or @victoriastrauss.com.

We don't need to push criticism and theory to younger and younger kids. Let them live a little.

More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communication Workers of America. www.wired.com/story/wikipe...

Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time

More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communication Workers of America.

wired.com

8yo: how much will you get paid to write your book Me: uh, I don't know. Authors are paid in royalties so each time someone buys the book they get like $2 8yo: that seems like a bad deal Me: I dunno, what if my book sells a million copies? How much would I make? 8yo: well that's not gonna happen

Mr. T's numerology. This is medievalism 💜

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 2d ago

And why all those earrings?

Quick visit to SF this morning to see ETRUSCANS exhibition at @famsf.bsky.social Still up for another couple of weeks! www.famsf.org/exhibitions/...

This is so basic. It is not USPS' job to decide whether ballots are eligible or not. That's the job of the state election officials. USPS' job is simply to ensure that the ballots get from election officials to the voters and then from the voters back to election officials. That's it.

Teddy Amenabar@teddyamen.bsky.social · 3d ago

NEW: In internal meetings, top USPS officials expressed concerns about new mail voting rules. One repeated concern regarded how to avoid invalidating an entire batch of ballots if one voter among thousands couldn’t be confirmed as eligible. www.propublica.org/article/mail...

I'm not holding my breath for this to happen in San Jose Unified, but it would be fantastic

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d ago

“The Los Angeles Unified Board is banning student access to AI tools on district-provided laptops and tablets. The announcement comes after the Los Angeles Unified School District voted to limit screen time for students in June.”

Questions about how to reinstate your terminated NEH grant? Join us for a free MLA strategy session tomorrow (Thursday, 9 July) at 2pm ET where we'll review the process & answer questions. Register at the link below, and please share with others who are trying to get their grant reinstated.

Modern Language Association@modernlanguage.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEH grantees: join us tomorrow, 9 July, at 2:00 p.m. ET for an MLA strategy session on how to reinstate terminated grants. You'll get guidance on navigating the NEH’s instructions and have the opportunity to ask questions about the reinstatement process. Register at www.mla.org/Events/Webin...

Suffice to say, it isn't the right cultural moment to drum up sympathy for villains

Call for Applications: The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print, Jan. 11-15. ‘27 at the American Antiquarian Society (deadline: Oct. 15 ‘26)

The 4 year cap means no PhDs in pretty much ANY discipline

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 5d ago

"A projected 111,000 fewer international students are expected in the U.S. this fall — a more than 9% drop in enrollment. A coalition of higher education organizations (AND UNIONS) sued the Department of Homeland Security to prevent the rule from taking effect." www.wuky.org/wuky-news/20...

"A projected 111,000 fewer international students are expected in the U.S. this fall — a more than 9% drop in enrollment. A coalition of higher education organizations (AND UNIONS) sued the Department of Homeland Security to prevent the rule from taking effect." www.wuky.org/wuky-news/20...

U.S. colleges, universities brace for loss of international students

The Trump administration is capping the length of time international students can legally remain in the U.S., and declines in their enrollment could spell disaster for colleges and universities.

wuky.org

What academics? None on here, Mr. Strawman

The Economist@economist.com · last wk.

It is growing common to hear academics shrug that perhaps students no longer need strong basic skills. That is not pragmatism—it is surrender

I wish that they would just ban right on red. It makes people bigger assholes

JOB!! The Department of History at the University of Ottawa invites applications for a position in medieval and/or transregional history, 7th-16th centuries. French or English, bilingualism an asset. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

My starting point will be mapping the hundreds of London plant sites mentioned in John Gerard’s 1597 herbal. If your library has a copy of the first edition, and especially if it’s annotated/hand-coloured or contains plant matter(!), I’d love to chat! 🍁 (2/3)

How do people make any money selling anything with these AI horrors?

If you would like to see me much more frequently you should get this job:

Head of Special Collections - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:Academic StaffEmployment Type...

jobs.wisc.edu

“How will we ever replace them?” FUND. THE. ARTS.

People talk about bad or mediocre academic work as some kind of general failure of our fields or vocation or the truth itself, as if there aren’t bad movies, bad cars, bad buildings, bad appliances, bad video games, etc, and yet no one dismisses the making of those things. Let humans fail sometimes.

Do not forget: this vision of education—students with headphones on staring at screens—is VERY unpopular, especially right now. The vast majority of students don't want it. The vast majority of teachers don't want it. The vast majority of families don't want it. That's the story.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Linda McMahon on successful uses of AI in classrooms: "The first couple hours every day students really have on headphones, they're in front of their computers, they're getting their subjects fed to them...the beauty of that is the student almost has a one-on-one tutor...I have seen it work so well"

There are so many manuscript fragments that were recycled in the Middle Ages and later for the binding of books, and this is just a tremendously exciting report of some new work.

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 2w ago

Researchers say texts from 12th to 15th centuries ‘hint at a culture which has not even been imagined’

It's because he's a coward.

Andrew Weinstein@andrewjweinstein.com · 2w ago

I’m still trying to process how the president of the United States somehow talks tougher about Canada than North Korea.

This article on Korean papermaking is lovely, and a fine antidote to any dreary news of the day. Gift link:

Ancient Korean Papermaking Finds a Home in Ohio (Gift Article)

Aimee Lee learned to make hanji with Korean masters. Now she practices their traditional technique in the United States.

nytimes.com

A lot of us have pointed out that attacks on higher ed have broader economic implications for local communities. The Boston Globe has a story on the impact of higher ed cuts on the Massachusetts economy. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/18/b...

Almost 130,000 people work at Mass. universities. Many are now on the ‘chopping blocks.’ - The Boston Globe

Higher education has long felt like the most stable sector of the Massachusetts economy. Not anymore.

bostonglobe.com

The assumption that Bible as Literature would be in taught religious studies departments is really making me sad about the demise of comparative literature in the grand fracturing of the humanities