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That right there is the simultaneously excited and terrified face of an co-author who is holding a decade's worth of work in his hands for the first time.

Want your own copy??? Pre-orders available here (and elsewhere): https://bookshop.org/p/books/schooled-and-sorted-how-educational-categories-create-inequality-how-educational-categories-create-inequality-andrew-m-penner/20083081?ean=9780871540003

Here. We. Go! The UNC School of Education is searching for a Clinical Faculty Member to lead as Program Director for our new, super-cool Online EdD program in Organizational Leadership. Details in the link below. Please share widely!

https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/258002

#education @edutooters

Program Director & Clinical Faculty for Online EdD in Organizational Leadership

The School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Carolina) seeks an experienced scholar and administrator to serve as the inaugural program director for the newly created online EdD in Organizational Leadership. The program director will play a central role in the program's administration, coordination, and teaching. This is a full-time, fixed-term, 12-month appointment at the rank of clinical assistant, associate, or full professor. The target start date is November 1, 2023, and is negotiable, with an initial 3-year appointment. The appointment is renewable and contingent on performance and availability of funds.The position is a unique opportunity to lead the School of Education's new online EdD program in Organizational Leadership. The three-year program is designed for working professionals with leadership experience who are motivated to effect continuous improvement and systemic sustainable change across nonprofit, private, and community organizations, government agencies, businesses, and schools. The successful candidate will:* Manage and represent the program: Represent the program to both internal and external audiences, provide oversight and management of all key operational areas of program delivery, and ensure the achievement of program metrics and outcomes.* Curriculum development and maintenance: Work with faculty to define and continue to evolve the curriculum and co-curricular elements of the program and facilitate course development and updates as needed in alignment with curriculum design and program goals.* Teaching: Teach courses in the program commensurate with their expertise.* Admissions process: Oversee admissions criteria and a rolling admissions process, provide guidance to team members and faculty reviewing applications, and facilitate timely review of applications.* Instructor management: Identify instructors needed for course delivery and oversee the hiring, section assignments, support, and assessment of section instructors.* Student support oversight: Ensure student services personnel have and use accurate curriculum and program information when guiding students. Review and help resolve, or facilitate the resolution, of student issues and requests requiring academic approval.* Support culminating experiences: Facilitate the management, and ensure completion and documentation, of capstone projects in accordance with School of Education and Graduate School requirements.* Design, support, and participate in immersions: As appropriate, lead and/or participate in the creation and implementation of in-person experiences for the program.

The last few months I have taken a few leadership courses and working on our DE&I efforts at the same time. So when someone asked for comments at one of the leadership lectures recently, I said something along the lines of “all of the quotes and examples of leaders are all men”….

This morning I came across this commentary: https://lnkd.in/ePsBsBTa

Does anyone have some good book recommendations about leadership written by women, and more specifically, women from underrepresented groups?

Research question: How many emails can a university send about a $0.03 discrepancy on a grant budget?

Preliminary research indicates that the answer is at least 10.

🧐 "At a January presentation to law schools, Robert Morse, U.S. News's chief data strategist, disclosed that he didn't commit to a particular mathematical model until after receiving schools' data, according to Ian Ayres, an economist and Yale Law School professor who attended the event. Once that information was in hand, Dr. Ayres said, the team ran simulations giving various factors different weights to see the potential outcomes before deciding on a final method." https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-news-college-rankings-yale-law-fe24f0b2
The Unraveling of the U.S. News College Rankings

The revolt against the survey, started by Yale Law School, was decades in the making

WSJ
Two kids, two different public schools, two robo-calls this morning about lockdowns and increased police presence at school. America, WTF are we doing?
My inbox sucks.

Here is your must-read article for the day, a profile of @emilymbender, and her efforts to deflate the ridiculous hype around large language models such as ChatGPT.

It's also about the people who are behind that hype, and about what their way of thinking has the potential to do to us.

It's worth reading all the way to the end.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

(not my photo, but too good not to share)