@UMN_HSJMC Thanks! It’s always my privilege to create opportunities for our amazing undergraduates. This year’s AccessU site on first-gen students is another great collaboration. https://t.co/2DKfmj3tDo
My former colleagues at APM Reports @CLPeak @ehanford @C_E_Winter win a prestigious DuPont award for their game-changing investigation revealing the prevalence of a discredited approach to reading instruction and who suffered, who benefited https://t.co/aCXBZVtV5c
Guns at schools. Analysis from @k12ssdb: “As many schools add metal detectors and interior fortifications, 49% of the last 300 shootings at school have taken place in the parking lot or in front of the school building. “ Now what?
What have I been doing this week? Watching students break stories: Students scramble for housing options amid luxury apartment building delays. https://t.co/jdGbayVwYb
A terrific story by my @UMN_HSJMC community Jour students: Not here, but all around here: Queer UMN students express anxiety over anti-LGBTQ+ laws – AccessU: Queer on Campus https://t.co/QiAcE9CCj3
The UMN’s Queer Student Cultural Center has apologized on social media for what it called “the many instances of racism that have occurred within our space.”
By Karri Seland
https://t.co/ZGVJcTX30U
For the 7th year, my @UMN_HSJMC community journalism class is rocking it with meaningful campus coverage. This semester the focus is LGBTQ+ communities. Check out all stories on https://t.co/k9BDtT8sjy On Twitter: @accessu_qoc
This is what can happen when you don’t give up on a feature story despite roadblocks that cause you to bust a couple of deadlines in my magazine writing class. Nice work @James_Schaak
@_cingraham A trigger warning is really a gesture of respect, allowing students to prepare for challenging material. The prof must defend its value. The students can question it or leave. Forbidding discussion of material that calls for this exchange? It silences all. It's not education.
Omid Safi, Duke U prof of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in @nytimes: Students “don’t have to give up their values. But some part of the educational process does call for stepping beyond each one of our vantage points enough to know that none of us have the monopoly on truth.”
For context and commentary on the dismissal of the Hamline instructor on baseless charges of "Islamophobia," read the two pieces that broke the story:
1/ Islamic art professor Christiane Gruber details the incident & how it undermines academic freedom. https://t.co/UOpY94R5Vf