Teri Hinds (she/her)

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Professional #DataGeek and #DataGovernance consultant. CDMP Practitioner. Recovering #HigherEd data and policy wonk.

Fiber artist (mostly knitting: socks and stockings, sometimes sweaters and shawls). Reader (mostly sci-fi, with some postapoc and cyberpunk thrown in for good measure). Historical re-enactor (10th century northern European).

Science is real and doesn't need me to believe in it. I'd rather work to fix our socio-political systems than blame those they fail. US based.

Gen Z has some very good reasons not to trust institutions, and yet, institutions are the only thing that will keep them eating and out of concentration camps. Since none of them has the faintest idea how to fix any of this, the pragmatic course of action is for them, and all of us, to vote like our lives depend on it. Because it does. Once this fanatical GOP monster is castrated, we can talk about a progressive agenda.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of data governance, what challenges will higher education face, and how will it rise to meet those challenges? The 2023 Horizon Action Plan: Data Governance provides a roadmap of the future along with practical action items. https://library.educause.edu/resources/2023/3/2023-educause-horizon-action-plan-data-governance
2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Data Governance

This report describes an optimized future for data governance in higher education, drawing on the insights of a small panel of data and analytics high

Earth's human population recently reached 8 billion people.

Here's where they live.

Data visualization by Pietro Violo https://pietroviolo.com/

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Publishing company will offer free Black history e-books, especially in Florida

A Chicago-based publishing house will offer free e-books focused on Black history after the College Board revised its Advanced Placement African American studies course earlier this month. And Haymarket Books has Florida, specifically, in its sights. The College Board’s revisions came after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) refused to allow the class in Florida high schools. In the revised course,…

The Hill
The African-American Policy Forum is hosting a conversation on Wednesday, February 8 “Whitewashing Black Studies: The Fight for African American Studies” to discuss the attacks on AP African American Studies and the larger threat posed to anti-racism & democracy. The event is free in person and live-streamed. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/whitewashing-black-studies-the-fight-for-african-american-studies-tickets-530737980587
Whitewashing Black Studies: The Fight For African American Studies...

Live at Columbia Univ. in NYC, we'll examine the attacks on AP African American Studies and discuss the threats to anti-racism & democracy

Eventbrite

The racist governor of Florida has given us no choice.

FREE Ebook: From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1646-from-blacklivesmatter-to-black-liberation-expanded-second-edition

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Expanded Second Edition)

This updated and expanded edition of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 's groundbreaking book features a new chapter and a foreword by Angela Y. Davis.

haymarketbooks.org
Whohoo! Welcome to the fediverse, @educause! Glad to see you here. #HigherEd

In anticipation of MLK day, it's good to start with a rereading of Letter from a Birmingham Jail.

The section on "white moderates" is particularly instructive.

https://www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets/documents/susi-letter-from-birmingham-jail.pdf

If you are white and have an MLK quote queued up for tomorrow:

Delete that shit and: Go make a donation to a Black justice organization, or patronize a Black owned business, or read a Black author, or educate yourself on dismantling systemic racism.

Signaling you're an ally doesn't mean you actually are one.

“Privacy concerns and evidence of bias in facial recognition systems have fueled a movement to ban government use of the technology. "Facial recognition software is particularly bad at recognizing African-Americans and other ethnic minorities, women, and young people, often misidentifying or failing to identify them, disparately impacting certain groups," the Electronic Frontier Foundation says.”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/facial-recognition-error-led-to-wrongful-arrest-of-black-man-report-says/

Black man wrongfully jailed for a week after face recognition error, report says

Lawyer says police didn't check man's height, weight—or the mole on his face.

Ars Technica