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Jan 25, 2023 • 50 tweets • 10 min read
From Monday night's Mott Community College Board of Trustees meeting. The meeting is more than five hours long. It hit all kinds of current cultural talking points, and not in good ways.
The most disturbing thing about the night was the inescapable undercurrent of racism. Two very right-wing trustees were elected last November, and word had somehow circulated that they want to fire Mott's first Black, female college president. 1/
Aug 10, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Oh, this thread got me thinking and made me cry.
I'm pretty sure, the writer here is in K-12, but the thread reminds me of what often happens in community colleges.
We don't talk publicly in CCs and higher ed about students who disappear.
In higher ed, we talk about retention -- and we only talk about that in abstract terms, in eduspeak terms, in how-are-we-going-to-keep-our-institution-funded terms. 2/
