Erin Templeton
Brian Croxall.@eetempleton: As much as I love words, it's not words that will save us. Instead it's the guests to the tent/party. It's the people, and we need to take care of them. #s583 #mla23
.@eetempleton: Our institutions cannot love us (as @tressiemcphd wrote in the NYT). And of course they can't because they're systems and not people. #s583 #mla23
.@eetempleton: What about thinking of what we do as teachers/admin less with the corporate/business model but rather as a version of care? in other words, let's think in terms of a verb rather than a noun. #s583 #mla23
.@eetempleton: My most important resource has never been fiscal. Money has always been tight at our institution, and that means I can't do much with it.
.@eetempleton: Critical mass matters, as we have recently seen in the House of Representatives. #s583 #mla23
.@eetempleton: Sometimes bigger is better. There can be power in numbers. There's something that happens when we have 50 or 500 people that cannot happen when you have only five people. #s583 #mla23
.@eetempleton now calling back @kfitz's comments on crises in the humanities (which drew on Reitter and Wellmon). #s583 #mla23
.@eetempleton: Why do we need a big tent? What are we calling people in for? As much as I'd like it to be for a Gatsby carnivalesque party, but that never really seems to happen. #s583 #mla23