Its publication day! My book, Rural and Small-Town America: Context, Composition, and Complexities is out today. We share lessons offered from rural society & confront common myths & misunderstandings about #rural people and places. (1/X) https://t.co/kllNZ933on
In our Sept. issue learn how Covid-19 changed the effects of county contexts on mortality: https://t.co/Vkc0dOrliM
Read the Policy brief: https://t.co/2P6RcLMeTt
By @jennkarasmontez@smonnat Emily E. Wiemers Douglas A. Wolf Xue Zhang
@MaxwellSU@AgingStudiesSU@SyracuseU@Cornell
We've collectively shrugged and decided to accept a slow – and in fact not so slow – march toward mass illiteracy instead of getting serious about banning phones from schools and going after the tech monopolies that get rich addicting children to Magic Dopamine Boxes. Evil shit.
I literally – literally – don't know a single humanities professor, regardless of the kind of institution they teach at, who doesn't think students' reading abilities have fallen off a cliff. It's an emergency and in a sane world there would be Congressional hearings about this.
Full page ad in today’s WSJ taken out by leaders at @VanderbiltU and @WashU:
Higher Education is at a Crossroads
To university leadership, Board members and alumni:
American higher education is at a crossroads. Ideological forces in and outside of campuses have pulled too many universities away from the core purpose, principles and values that made them America's great engines of learning, innovation and discovery, and the envy of the world.
It is imperative that universities reaffirm and protect these core principles, strengthen their compact with the American people, and build on their unmatched capacity for teaching and innovation. They must do so not only because universities provide education that is transformative and research that improves everyday life—but also because their work is vital to American prosperity, competitiveness and national security.
To this end, the leadership of Vanderbilt University and Washington University in St. Louis recently took action at the board level to affirm our commitment to three indispensable principles that have long guided us:
-Excellence in all aspects of our institutions' work, free of political litmus tests, grounded in a commitment to institutional neutrality in words and deeds;
-Academic freedom and freedom of expression, to ensure unfettered inquiry, perspectives drawn from a wide range of human experience, and dialogue and debate that are free from censorship and disruption; and
-An environment that fosters growth and development, including a commitment to minimizing financial and other barriers that impede students' access to our institutions or that hinder their academic success.
Learn about the Vanderbilt-WashU Statement of Principles and efforts to restore confidence in America's great universities at HigherEdStatementofPrinciples dot com
Bruce Evans
Chairman, Board of Trust
Vanderbilt University
Andrew Bursky
Chair, Board of Trustees Washington University in St. Louis
Daniel Diermeier
Chancellor
Vanderbilt University
Andrew D. Martin
Chancellor
Washington University in St. Louis
Please join us for the next @PennPARC Aging Chat:
RURAL HEALTH & AGING
Monday, March 3, 2025 | 12-1 pm | McNeil Room 403 & Virtual
(Zoom info on image)
With speakers: Shannon Monnat (@smonnat) of @MaxwellSU
& Brian Clemens Thiede of @agsciences
https://t.co/MOWgsRzqTs
Among U.S. working-age adults in 2023, 13.9% self-reported ever being diagnosed with #ADHD by a health care professional. Learn more in this new study by Andrew London, @smonnat, and Iliya Gutin: https://t.co/G9q1xBDSQ1 @MaxwellSU
Other than being beholden to billionaires, the biggest problem with the Democratic Party establishment is that there are not enough people from working-class backgrounds in the inside track who can say: "Uh, David Hogg? As our young-men whisperer? WTF are we doing here guys?"
.@JetBlue, our flight landed at 932 pm at #SYR (B6 602). As of 1024 pm we are still waiting at baggage claim, and no bags have come out yet. What the heck is going on? This is unacceptable!
Adults have grown less literate over the past decade, new data suggest. One researcher speculates that many are getting much less practice than they used to at reading long and complex texts.
Blame TikTok, perhaps https://t.co/YZbaX5L0ai 👇