The university hopes to reach an agreement to ensure a smooth start to classes in the fall term.
LEO would also like to ensure a smooth start to classes in Fall. Admin can ensure this by coming to the table with realistic counter-proposals to LEO's reasonable requests.
UM-Ann Arbor has a Carnegie designation as a “very high research activity” doctoral institution. UM-Flint is classified as a doctoral/professional university. UM-Dearborn has a master’s colleges & universities Carnegie classificatio
None of this means that lecturers and grad students should get paid differently for the same work. For example, Lecturers in Dearborn and Flint typically teach 8 courses/academic year for an average of $45,000, while Ann Arbor lecs teach 6 classes for a minimum of $51,000. The institutional designation does not change the amount of labor performed.
University of Minnesota and Indiana University
Nice cherry-picking.
with their families
some of whom don't approve of certain medical procedures or practices like therapy, which increases the need for onsite, private services for vulnerable students.
These regional campuses already display the type of socioeconomic diversity that UM-Ann Arbor is trying to build through the Go Blue Guarantee
In other words, because you're already diverse, you don't need financial support?
$500 million in surplus funds. This is simply not true
Well, there's also the $6.5 billion unrestricted reserves in the endowment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX_y8hej2QM&list=PLr8TmXtl89mNTIgx8Lo17NQiv8Pmp-TU0&index=3&t=0s
UM-Flint and UM-Dearborn students are able to transfer a higher percentage of “equivalent course” credits than other institutions.
It is still too difficult for students to transfer from Dearborn or Flint to Ann Arbor and vice versa.
Our leaders on the three campuses do not support a single budget model that would effectively merge the institutions and their priorities
But the reality is that the Board of Regents approved one budget every year that encompasses all three campuses.
radical anti-white “reverse racism” and feminist wars on men
Ugh
That is why it is ridiculous to expect college institutions to be radical.
I think this is correct and tied to the neoliberal management style of the modern university. Individual faculty members may be "radical," (however you define that), but institutions as a whole tend to mitigate any attempt at change. How did we get here and how do we change it?
faculty governance
What's this? I've heard of it, but haven't seen it in the wild. /s
Your union has a policy on academic freedom
This is important, although I suspect many institutions would push back on any guarantees that go beyond their narrowly defined ideas of what's bargainable.
Digital Pedagogy is a pedagogy of hacking, which Fyfe defines as “adapt[ing], manipulat[ing], and mak[ing] productive use out of a given technology or technological context or platform
Hacking can also mean using something against its original use. This can be difficult when LMS systems are locked down in various ways.
Rather, we need to handle our technologies roughly — to think critically about our tools, how we use them, and who has access to them
This gets more difficult as we adopt proprietary, locked down systems
vocabulary that has specific disciplinary meanings t
To my point above, sometimes this is used an excuse for the above problem.
n-group status by obfuscation)
I'm glad this particular point is under the "poorly written" category. I sometimes wonder just how much of this is going on whenever I read jargon-laden humanities scholarship.
It shapes what everyone else understands
And it shapes what Facebook understands about us, to sell to advertisers, tweak what we see, etc.
Edited to add: I guess the next sentence says this, but perhaps it's worth rephrasing
Every time you are fair to someone you disagree with on the internet, you leave a good connection behind you
I agree with this. It's not a bad idea to model fair and reasonable behavior, even while fact-checking someone.
So many of these damaging, divisive culture wars are the creation of companies (and governments) with an agenda that has nothing to do with the well-being of our society
This is the heart of the problem. It's not that people put inaccurate or mean things on the "internet," but that ad-based companies profit from divisive, polarizing, emotionally-charged content, and, even more worrying, independent actors (e.g. Russia) have found ways to exploit that profit motive.
internet
I'm a little bothered by the conflation of the term "internet" with "facebook (or twitter, or instagram or whatever)" above.