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14 Oct, 3 tweets, 2 min read
I've worked in universities for 20 years. They have not changed that much. What is driving change in opinions here is more polarized coverage of institutions, some with the explicit intent of undermining higher ed institutions.
Previous Pew Data shows that dramatic drop in GOP support for higher ed did not happen gradually, but very quickly at the time that the party embraced a populist leader pewresearch.org/social-trends/…
Previous surveys suggest that the conservatives who hold the most negative views of college campuses are ones without direct recent experience, i.e. non college grads or older adults. Views are being shaped by other sources.

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14 Oct
Given the story about teachers in Texas being told to remove books about the Holocaust if they can't find pro-Holocaust texts, re-upping this overview about how the anti-CRT moral panic is making teaching an impossible job.
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Southlake already stood out. After a viral video of students laughing while shouting the N word at a party, students pushed for diversity training. The backlash was so strong that the school board was voted out.
(200K was spent by their opponents). nbcnews.com/news/us-news/b…
A teacher at Southlake was reprimanded after she gave an anti-racist book to a student. The school district cleared her of wrongdoing, but the school board punished her anyway. The parents who made the complaint had donated to school board members.
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14 Oct
Bit of a gap here between what Ted Cruz said and what happened.
The effort to make this a lightening rod illustrates both a) the bad faith use of free speech to claim conservative victimhood, and b) the indifference to public health.
madison.com/wsj/news/local…
YAF, the group organizers are claiming discrimination based on ideology. Evidence of double standard: two events on *other campuses*, an event at the Tommy Thompson center where a visiting speaker ignored the rules, and one where GOP students ignored the rules.
Madison has had real problems with surges of COVID because of students not following health guidelines. After Cruz moved his event off campus, his audience made a point of going maskless and ignoring local government health guidelines.
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13 Oct
Tenure is the bedrock of academic freedom, the basic structural protection that makes speech freer on campus than almost anywhere else. The people more focused on a single cancelled talk than the plan to erode tenure protections in GA are telling on themselves.
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As @TheFIREorg notes here, the structure of post-tenure review in Georgia invites the potential for political control of process
thefire.org/fire-to-georgi…
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12 Oct
Something very on brand about a conservative policy center writing about the dangers of discussions of systemic racism in schools and universities, using a prop photo of MLK, while the actual organization is, uh, less than diverse.
mspolicy.org/our-story/
mspolicy.org/wp-content/upl…
Not a critical race theorist, but if I was, I would write a paper about the use of MLK's image and selective use of his quotes. Symbolic representation is not a substitute for action, but its especially hypocritical from those opposing MLK's goals. colorlines.com/articles/marti…
Per this report, alerting students to the well-established fact that Blacks and Latinos systematically face greater discrimination in labor markets is CRT, and must be suppressed. Never mind whether its true or not. pnas.org/content/114/41…
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10 Oct
Pet rat, eating strudel, the day after he managed to climb into the air vents and it took us a couple of hours to extricate him.
Said rat is very old, and one leg doesn’t work, so we sometimes let him putter about in the kitchen. After having some friends over for dinner and cocktails we have him some leftovers. Then he was gone. No panic, how far could he go?
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10 Oct
I do research on public sector performance. Here I explain why the anti-CRT movement will undermine the effectiveness of public schools donmoynihan.substack.com/p/making-publi…
We are going to see more stories of school officials wondering if their job is worth the harassment that comes with it nytimes.com/2021/10/10/us/…
While I wrote about schools, the same pattern holds in election administration and public health: officials being forced to respond to conspiracy theorists and pushed out of jobs.
If you care about the quality of public services, this is a big problem.
texastribune.org/2021/10/12/hoo…
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