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A Texas A&M Regent says "McElroy’s hiring would derail the “purpose” outlined for the journalism program: “to get high-quality Aggie journalists with conservative values into the market.”
Tell me again how liberals are controlling university values? /s
A jaw-dropper on #conservative political interference in #Texas #HigherEd. From the Chronicle: https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-really-happened-in-texas-a-ms-two-high-profile-controversies-an-investigative-report-explains?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_7412679_nl_Academe-Today_date_20230804&cid=at
@academicchatter #tenure #AcademicFreedom #racism #journalism
Bloomsbury Academic has a new blog for educators and I have one of the first posts about The Gutenberg Parenthesis in which I assert we must bring the humanities to the study of the internet.
“Watching as professional crybabies like Ben Shapiro tried to get people to boycott 'Barbie' because one of the actresses in the film (Hari Nef, who played Doctor Barbie) is trans, and seeing that has absolutely no effect on the film’s success demonstrates that the Bud Light and Target controversies and capitulations only became big deals because Bud Light and Target responded to the outrage as though it were genuine.”
#Barbie
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A great study, inexcusable results. This picture of academic mental health in Media and Comm fields, worst among early career scholars, is real and casts a shadow over all the scholarship that emerges from them.
Please share - #job #sociology
My newly-expanding research lab at Swarthmore is hiring a post-doc and the application is open.
Happy to answer questions by email.
my ad with all the details: bit.ly/ClassPolsLabPostDoc
Swarthmore's ad & application portal: https://careers.swarthmore.edu/cw/en-us/job/495215/postdoctoral-research-fellow
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