No lies detected. So glad I'm out!
#Macademia #AcademicDistopiaIsHere
Welcome to our faculty. We have recently changed our titling norms to more accurately reflect how you will allocate your time. We will conduct the ...
"The crisis in higher education...has many...parts. These include the defunding of public education, student debt, tuition limits, vicious mismanagement, and the financialization of everything. But by [blaming] one exogenous cause, Grawe allows administrators to frame the whole landscape as a technical problem with only technical fixes... [H]is “solutions” operate entirely within official and existing institutional channels."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/demographic-realism-and-the-crisis-of-higher-education/
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h/t @belehaa
We enjoyed attending the International Student Symposium on Animal Behaviour and Cognition last week! Thank you to everyone who came to our workshop and visited our table, and thanks to the conference organizers for the opportunity to participate.
#animalbehavior #wildlife #wildanimalwelfare #animalwelfare #macademia #science #ScienceMastodon
If you haven't registered for @behaviour2023 in Germany this August, now's the time — we're especially excited to be hosting a symposium with Melissa Bateson called "The welfare and behavior of wild animals." We hope to see you there!
#animalbehavior #wildlife #wildanimalwelfare #animalwelfare #macademia #science #ScienceMastodon
I have some academic books to sell- what’s a good second hand bookshop for niche stuff like older premodern Chinese and Japanese history?I can get to #Philadelphia, #NewYork, #DC
Boosts appreciated!
#SecondHandBooks #Bookshop #AcademicBooks #Request #Macademia
Wild Animal Initiative is a nonprofit dedicated to exploring the most pressing questions in #wildanimalwelfare science. We conduct research, fund scientists, and provide other services for researchers, all in pursuit of our goal to understand and ultimately improve the lives of wild animals. Please follow if you're interested in the many scientific fields that overlap with our work, including #animalwelfare science, #ecology, and #animalbehavior.
"Our leaders continue to disregard campus autonomy, attack the expertise and independence of world-class faculty, and seek to force students’ educations into pre-approved ideological containers". Protection of #AcademicFreedom and #FacultyGovernance is essential for a thriving university.
As this letter from #UNC faculty points out, the people supposedly "leading" the institution are the ones undermining its mission.
"Instead of heeding this warning, our leaders continue to disregard campus autonomy, attack the expertise and independence of world-class faculty, and seek to force students’ educations into pre-approved ideological containers. We must protect the principles of academic freedom and shared governance which have long made UNC a leader in public education."