A person whose voice I truly respect reached out feeling a bit perplexed by what she saw as a dissonance in this new piece by me.

So a brief (hopefully?) thread addressing those points.

chronicle.com/article/will-m… Namely, she felt like the first half (on avoidance) was written by someone she wouldn't tend to agree with, and echoed points from the #toxicrigor/anti-trigger-warning crowd.

But loved the second half, and thought it read like "me."

New by me.

With some great quotes from @LDamour and @lfoulkesy

chronicle.com/article/will-m… In my newsletter I unpack some of my ambivalence about all that the essay leaves out (as such short essays must do).
sarahrosecav.substack.com/p/in-like-a-li…

Higher ed, we are bleeding academic teacher/scholars to industry. We are driving folks away with overwork, underpay, & lack of appreciation.

The LAST thing we need to be doing is shaming teachers. Particularly the most student-focused among them. I am deep in the weeds of data collection & analysis for our @tune_bio project in which we have quant survey data & qual interviews of faculty & students about assessment, feedback, and grading in introductory biology.

A thread for those who are blocked by the paywall...

https://twitter.com/SaRoseCav/status/1405189985993637889

The whole other existential threat = people work in higher ed because they are drawn by a combined sense of vocation & intellectual/scheduling autonomy.

With unsustainable workloads, fewer resources to really connect with students & scholarship, & continued low pay...

As before, the great @margaretatwood once wrote:

“There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.” Part 2: The real story.

The story of me traveling around eating delicious food with amazing people who let me tour around in their brains awhile. This story stretches over our four seasons.