mtmiller.bsky.social
Scholar @univofmaryland.bsky.social. Islamicate Affect/Emotion, Sufism, Iran, DH, Academic Labor. Author: Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism. President @local6741.bsky.social; Part of @uam-umd.bsky.social, @aaup.org, @aft.org. Piscataway Land.
👤 Joined on 20 September 2023
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@mtmiller.bsky.socialAnother victory for higher ed and democracy, brought to you by AAUP's being laser-focused on organizing and empowering its members.
Show Post“International students, full-time faculty and part-time faculty in particular—we were all feeling very vulnerable,” said Hank Kalet, a journalism lecturer and vice president of the adjunct faculty union. “So these protections became a central focus for a lot of our members.” #academicfreedom
Show PostIncredible report from @aaup.org & @amnesty-usa.bsky.social on the vast bipartisan repression of campus speech on Palestine by administrators and the police: www.aclu.org/publications...
Show PostReading and writing about texts have been around for thousands of years through war, plagues, revolutions, etc and people have found these practices very useful despite massive social and technological upheaval, so I dunno, maybe we should still invest in them? 🤷
Show PostMaybe universities shouldn‘t be tying which departments and programs they decide to invest in based on projected job trends they have no actual clue about. Why not just invest proportionally in every field of inquiry rather than underfund some disciplines and overfund others?
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