Good news? The UC Riverside Highlander Editorial Board realized that ableism and inaccessibility are problems worthy of an op-ed.
The bad news? They're not questioning the systemic ableism at UC, but just questioning how efficiently it's implemented. The client of the SDRC is University of California and its desire to meet as few of its bare minimum obligations under disability law as possible. The client is not disabled students. Highest common denominator accessibility should be the default and going beyond that worked out without interference from "experts" at stonewalling.
CalMatters briefly mentioned there would be an Office of Disability Rights, but so far as we know, no reporter questioned University of California as to what the Office would do and how it would do it. No questions about the current system throughout UC re disability and accessibility and how this Office would be any different. What is the Office empowered to do? How are whistleblowers protected? #UCAccessNow#Disability#HigherEd@disability https://sfba.social/@ucaccessnow/111421168831108154
The Department of History at FIU is hiring! Tenure track open rank position in Modern European history.
Please share widely, and please do apply if this is in your field. The Department of History is a group of rabble rousers, who don’t take anything lying down. In other words, you’d be working with some really good and smart people. @histodons@histodon@academicchatter#history#highered#job#histodons
The day when a four-hour teaching prep and grading session turns into having to restart the office computer once an hour because it keeps crashing on you.
We have looked to MOOCs, OERs, open access publications, and online education generally to widen access to higher education for those disadvantaged by the digital divide as well as for learners worldwide who are not affluent enough to access f2f higher education.
More abled folks should pay attention to their university's accessibility when they find themselves temporarily disabled. Too many experience it, but forget all about it once they've healed.
I'm going out on a limb here, but maybe... just MAYBE...
...the reason why so many people in the USA don't believe in the value of a college education anymore is BECAUSE we are running our universities like businesses, and not because we aren't.
Does anyone in #highered know of any good resources / reviews / analysis on the influences of consulting firms on university finance and governance? The more I look, the more it seems like the trend of universities running like businesses is being pushed through a coordinated effort. @academicchatter@academicsunite
Why do PhD students do so much to silo off from Masters students...as if we were not all grad students sharing many of the same issues? @phdstudents #HigherEd#GradSchool
Complex feelings. Students are fundraising to attend SSHA conference in DC & did a 5K this a.m. I wore a sandwich board asking for donations to our Venmo account. Proud of the students & ashamed of the state of US higher ed that we actually ask for money on the street to pay for an opportunity like this. The students are all first gen & all but one is from an underrepresented group.
@actualham This whole article hurts my heart, but the story of the Whitewater Faculty Senate chair who left academia because she saw no future in Wisconsin #HigherEd really resonated with me. Same reason I left UW-Madison 5 years ago. Republicans have gerrymandered themselves into permanent control of the state legislature, and they are outright contemptuous of the UW System. @academicchatter
"In the twenty-first century, we should no longer tolerate the idea that behaviours considered normal for men are problematic in women. Whether it is unconscious or deliberate, advice about how we should behave is rooted in the estimation that we don’t, as female leaders, have the capacity to determine how to act for ourselves."
Well said. This is exactly the tone of righteous indignation needed here.
@academicchatter Considering writing up an article where I review literature on linguistic minority students (#ESL#TESOL#highered) and academic dishonesty incidents and include data from my institution (approval pending) that shows more concretely what the literature says in abstract. I don't expect it to be ground breaking and its mainly to practice my own writing, data analysis, and publishing skills after a long break. Is there value in that kind of writing? Where could that be published?
Looking for information about how the Respondus Lockdown Web Browser is ableist.
My google-fu is failing me, and I'd like to present this information to our instructor after the next test because she "says she's not ableist". (I don't think you're doing your job if your student has a panic attack in the middle of a test, TYVM.)
Recent blog entry by disability activist Alice Wong.
"This was the first time a host asked me to consider modifying my response. It felt like censorship to me, a way to dampen my valid frustration and disappointment in certain public figures and reshape my remarks in the name of civility, respectability, and palatability." @academicchatter@disability
Another resource is @DisabledInSTEM's Accessibility Review Form. This disability resource is for students (although I would love a version for staff/faculty...).
It's relatively new but a great place to check for academic ableism, success stories, and students can (& should) add to it.