Dr. Rosie Perez (she/her)
@rosiejp.bsky.social
Higher education faculty member. Student affairs educator. Filipina American. Partner & mama. Sports fan. CLE forever. All statements are mine.
Another move away from academic freedom. If sociologists cannot talk about social structures and systems in substantive ways, how are folks supposed to engage with the discipline? www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Florida Hands Down Sociology Curriculum to State Colleges
The sociology curriculum is likely just the state’s first foray into course development; the Florida Department of Education is already working on a similar framework for American history classes.
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This great news and so much was lost through preemptive compliance
ACLU@aclu.org · 6mo agoBREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Over the past ten years, #RIHE has published >80 articles that used NCES data as a primary data source. In this special collection, we highlight key RIHE articles that used NCES data to provide important insights for research, practice, and policy. #highered link.springer.com/collections/...
Leveraging U.S. NCES Education Data: High-Impact Articles from the Past 10 Years of RIHE
Over the past ten years, Research in Higher Education has published over 80 articles from scholars that used National Center for Education Statistics’ (NCES) ...
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After watching this with my kiddo, this soundtrack is on repeat. It's soooooooo good!
NPR@npr.org · last yr.Amid a cluster of top 10 album debuts this week, there's a left-field hit with staying power: the soundtrack to the Netflix original movie KPop Demon Hunters, which surges into the top five.
What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow? Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy? Our new concentration camps? Our dying economy? Our ditching due process? Our corruption? Our broken legislature? Our corrupt SCOTUS? Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly
The Guardian broke the story about excessive surveillance on U Michigan’s campus (thousands of surveillance cameras, undercover cops trailing students, drones over public squares). U-M regents approved spending for cops/cameras and ignored our complaint in the May Faculty Governance report.
Looking to join one of the dopest research centers?? Then apply for this postdoc at the @umichstonecid.bsky.social to work with my colleague Pablo Mitnik!
Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics@umichstonecid.bsky.social · last yr.Job alert! We're now accepting applications for a Postdoc Research Fellow who will work with restricted and hard-to-access data related to the sources of class-based income #inequality on cutting-edge research topics. Apply by June 15! 👇 myumi.ch/155qg #academicjobmarket #nowhiring #academicsky
Congratulations on your well-deserved promotion to Professor, Dr. Thomas! We're so fortunate to have you in the Marsal School! 💙💛
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas@ebonyteach.blacksky.app · last yr.At yesterday’s University of Michigan Regents meeting, I was promoted to full professor, effective July 1. 🎆 Full professor is the highest rank in US academia. 26% of faculty are full. Among those, 4% are Black; 2% BW. Started my PhD 20 years ago this fall. What a journey! A fantastic voyage.
No lies detected. This is one of books we've kept despite having a tween. It's right up there with Click, Clack, Moo
Simon Smith@simonsmith.bsky.social · last yr.One of the best books ever written, in any genre.
Congratulations to Dr. F. DuBois Bowman for being named the president of his beloved alma mater, Morehouse College! You will be missed at U-M & I'm grateful our families crossed paths during our shared time in A2. #AcademicSky news.morehouse.edu/dr.-f.-duboi...
Morehouse College Names Alumnus and University of Michigan School of Public Health Dean Dr. F. DuBois Bowman '92 as its 13th President
The Morehouse College Board of Trustees has named renowned public health leader and biostatistician Dr. F. DuBois Bowman as the College's 13th president.
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If you missed the ASHE first 100 days webinar moderated by @jackiepedota.bsky.social with me, @robertkelchen.com, Diane Cheng, and Kyle Southern, here's the recording. I talked about authoritarians but also told some jokes! youtu.be/qTxj9r3n_eE?...
ASHE CPPHE Webinar: 100 Days In: Higher Ed Under the New Administration
YouTube video by ASHE Office
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In addition to my faculty role, I drive KidUber & am part of a field hockey support squad. I’m so proud of my kiddo’s team who came in 2nd at their U14 Regional Club Championship tournament this weekend. On to the USA Field Hockey National Club Championship in June! 💙🧡🐍🏑 #fieldhockey
Santa Ono says he “declined to politicize the institution.” While Pres of UM, he: 1. Cancelled the student vote about BDS because he personally disagrees with boycotts of Israel. 2. Prosecuted peaceful pro-Palestinian student protesters. 3. Fired a staff member at the bequest of the ADL.
Why I Chose University of Florida, by Santa Ono (opinion)
Santa J. Ono explains why he’s pursuing the University of Florida presidency.
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He's sweating and has not officially even gotten to Florida. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Why I Chose University of Florida, by Santa Ono (opinion)
Santa J. Ono explains why he’s pursuing the University of Florida presidency.
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Who’s surprised? Anyone… anyone….
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · last yr.NEW: Fresh off announcing his departure for the University of Florida, outgoing University of Michigan President Santa Ono has had his name removed from the American Assoc of Colleges and Universities academic freedom letter he signed barely two weeks ago. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/outgo...
✳️ New manuscript out this week in the Journal of Postsecondary Student Success ✳️ We examined how low-income students experience career programming intended to support their success. It was helpful, but at times stressful & created tensions related to identity journals.flvc.org/jpss/article...
How the Game is Played: Low-Income Students’ Experiences with Career Development Programming | Journal of Postsecondary Student Success
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Indiana has passed legislation that, if signed by the governor, will allow him to appoint IU trustees and the state to decide which academic programs to eliminate. "Overreach doesn't begin to describe the actions of the Legislature,” one source told @ryanequinn.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/mwjbmx3f
Indiana Budget Bill Contains Sweeping Higher Ed Changes
When Republicans revealed the legislation last week, new provisions requiring faculty to post syllabi and face “productivity” reviews had appeared. The bill quickly passed.
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🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov
They are segregationist and this will be open season for discrimination. “the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”
My god. He’s gone after the Civil Rights Act!!!! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
NAACP Legal Defense Fund sues Dept of Education over ongoing destruction of data infrastructure 💪🎉 Suit is on behalf of National Academy of Education & National Council on Measurement in Education LDF has a long and storied history. So honored they are representing NAEd, of which I am a fellow
LDF Sues U.S. Department of Education on Behalf of Education Research Organizations Over Discontinuation of Critical Demographic Data Collection
LDF filed a sued the Department of Education over its decision decision to no longer collect, maintain, analyze, and disseminate federal educational data.
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There was a big #WeAreDEI rally and march at U-M this evening. Started on the Diag, then off to Ruthven where the 4 new resolutions of the faculty senate were posted on the central administration's doors.
At today’s rally in support of DEI at U-M, our first student speaker named the divestment from this work what it is - institutional betrayal. They reminded us that when the institution doesn’t show up for us, we show up for each other. #WeAreDEI
Another example of advancing eugenics & white supremacist, sexist logics through purporting the neutrality of science
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last yr.Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Come join members of the University of Michigan community who are marching in support of reinstating DEI work at the institution on Tuesday, April 22nd, at 5 pm at the U-M Diag. Hope to see you there! #WeareDEI @umdeidefense.bsky.social
A few of the many thoughts that I have on the short & long term implications of cutting federal research support are in this article. Research, teaching & learning environments, efforts to diversify the academic pipeline, etc. will all suffer as resources & opportunities are constrained #AcademicSky
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · last yr.The Ripple Effects of Draining the Ph.D. Pool Deep cuts to federal research funding and crackdowns on international students could mean far fewer graduate students next fall and beyond. If that happens, undergraduates, faculty and research... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/43JjvEB
Thanks to your reports, we have created a tracker of college campus Visa revocations. Please continue to let us know if you hear of these (names of colleges and number of revocations). www.wearehighered.org/campus-abduc...
Campus Abductions — We Are Higher Ed
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I’m not surprised, but it doesn’t ease my anger, frustration, & disappointment as an alum & faculty member. Please miss me with any more talk of being the “leaders & best” moving forward. I’ve always been critical of this concept, but it rings especially hollow now. #AcademicSky
Detroit Free Press@freep.com · last yr.BREAKING: The University of Michigan is closing its Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, a major retreat for a school that has long championed its progressive values.
