Thread by @itsAlexCL

It’s Presidential Address time! @drcroom delivering a beautiful introduction of @DrDLStewart #ashe2021

Not me getting a shout out with all of these amazing people 🥺 always happy to run these academic streets with @DrDLStewart 💖

“I don’t have slides so you’ll have to look at my handsome face the whole time.” @DrDLStewart

Me:

What does it mean to be the first of a thing? What bodies matter? Do bodies matter? // @DrDLStewart #ASHE2021

Stories are representations. They re-present reality…critical scholars use positionality statements to say how they tell the story of their data // @DrDLStewart

Representation and compositional diversity will not save us. Looking across the field of higher education, it’s curious what is considered publishable related to Blackness. Black commentary versus Blackened commentary. // @DrDLStewart

Visibility and representation fool you into think progress has been achieved, that structures and systems have shifted, and that time is improved. These goals are ineffectual and maintain structures of power for dominant groups // @DrDLStewart

It is critical scholarship that helps us to refuse the enticement of believing the ivory tower will do anything but bind us to the altar of diversity. // @DrDLStewart

Reference drop! dukeupress.edu/Everyday-Utopi… #ASHE2021

This devotion to scientism can be seen through journal rejection rates, so called productivity rates, usefulness considerations from other researchers, and generalizability, to name a few. // @DrDLStewart #ASHE2021

A “scholarship of discovery” is itself reflective of colonialism // @DrDLStewart #ASHE2021

To whom does our research report and for what purpose? Do we look for disconfirming evidence? Are we only here to engage in intellectual masturbation? // @DrDLStewart #ASHE2021

I’m calling for a scholarship of ideation. The formation of ideas and concepts which is generally absent from the field of higher education // @DrDLStewart #ASHE2021

You DEFINITELY should take in Tuck’s work on Suspending Damage in research as suggested by @DrDLStewart #ASHE2021 pages.ucsd.edu/~rfrank/class_…

In my 20 years as an editor/reviewer/chair, implications sections are typically long on research implications, short on practice implications, and even shorter on policy recommendations. We seem to have forgotten we are an applied field. // @DrDLStewart #ASHE2021

Honestly, the Dragon captioning software is right to be overwhelmed because I’m hanging on every word and still processing what @DrDLStewart said like 30 minutes ago #ASHE2021

Critical scholarships asks if we’ve made a material difference in the situations that can improve the lives of people who are most impacted. // @DrDLStewart #ASHE2021

Well, that was incredible and I can’t wait to read it in @RHE_ASHE next year! Bravo, @DrDLStewart! #ASHE2021