Sunday Reading

The Nine Dumbest Things in the Rutgers Report on Kyle Flood.
The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration.
Race Is Always the Issue.
“The Long Emancipation” offers a useful reminder that abolition was not the charitable work of respectable white people, or not mainly that. Instead, the demise of slavery was made possible by the constant discomfort inflicted on middle-class white society by black activists.
We enter into something of a contract as a faculty member: we trade income for autonomy and security. If we do not use the latter, we enter a fool’s bargain. This is why I stay, and why being ready to quit is an important part of staying.
Friends don’t let friends write clickbait confessionals.
The feminist think piece industrial complex.
Inside the Battle for Cooper Union.
Every Single Movie That Jimmy Carter Watched at the White House.
“I don’t expect them to understand everything I do,” Dr. Xi, 57, said in a telephone interview. “But the fact that they don’t consult with experts and then charge me? Put my family through all this? Damage my reputation? They shouldn’t do this. This is not a joke. This is not a game.”
He said that his best professors “took texts that seemed complicated, made them look simple, and then made them complex again.”
The entire Japanese public university system attempts a massive queen sacrifice.
There Is No Excuse for How Universities Treat Adjuncts.
Can’t afford to eat at a college sitting on over $9 billion? There’s an app for that.
In 1997, the ETS announced that the SAT could not properly be labeled a scholastic assessment test, either; the initials now stand for nothing.
Some have called Harvard a Hedge Fund with a school attached, because it has over $36 billion in its endowment, but the UC holds over $100 billion in its retirement funds, endowments, and working capital funds. This large amount of money can be used for good, or it can be used for darker purposes, but one thing for sure, it makes the university an important global finance player. Of course, we should all ask what it means when a public university enters global finance.

Ben Trott

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