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Katie Durante 🍹🦕

@professorkd.bsky.social

Assoc Prof at U Utah Sociology/Criminology• Incarceration researcher• Urbanite • Always down to eat pho 🍲 • #firstgen • Views my own CLE ➡️ Cincy ➡️ Vegas ➡️ SLC📍

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Max Coleman@maxecoleman.bsky.social · 7mo ago

“The state-approved version doesn’t include chapters on media and technology, global inequality, race and ethnicity, social stratification, or gender, sex and sexuality.” Just horrifying. All faculty should refuse to use this. (h/t @professorkd.bsky.social) www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Florida Introduces “Sanitized” Sociology Textbook

The volume was created after a state review found that existing course materials violated a law prohibiting general education courses from teaching about systemic inequality. So far, at least two univ...

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Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 11mo ago

Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper? Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.

Indiana University banned its student newspaper from printing just days before homecoming weekend — after firing the paper’s advisor when he refused to censor critical coverage. That would be bad enough on its own, but FIRE is taking this one personally, as the Indiana Daily Student reported this hostile campaign was due in part to its coverage of FIRE’s ranking Indiana University as the worst public university for free speech. You read that right. The school’s response to the news that they are bad at free speech … is to censor the news. It’s ironic — and not just in the Alanis Morissette sense — that these actions will likely push its overall ranking even lower next year. At least we can’t fault them for consistency.
Katie Durante 🍹🦕@professorkd.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Last blast! Applications are due tomorrow! Happy to answer any last minute questions. Content area is generally open.

Katie Durante 🍹🦕@professorkd.bsky.social · last yr.

University of Utah Dept of Sociology and Criminology is hiring a tenure track assistant professor! I’m happy to chat and answer any questions about the job, SLC, etc. DM or email me. PS: we are a great group of colleagues to have 😁 Link: utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/187...

Katie Durante 🍹🦕@professorkd.bsky.social · last yr.

The students are not pleased, to say the least 🙊 www.change.org/p/reverse-un...

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Reverse University of Utah's Ineffective Schedule Change

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Alessandro Rigolon@alerigolon.bsky.social · last yr.

The "parking theory of everything" now affects course scheduling at the University of Utah. And students aren't happy. We're mostly a commuter school, and asking students who commute 1+ hours to be on campus at 8 am is not reasonable.