Trent_Batson

Co-Lead The Last Humans Project; former President of AAEEBL

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@BryanAlexander Exactly.

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We now have more indication that the human evolutionary push to nationalism (the culmination of human migration around the world) is at an end. The next phase in our evolution is a return to local, reinforced by renewable energy, which is local.

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Trump is a lib: he wants affirmative action for white males, diversity-equity-inclusion for white males, and preferential treatment for the protected class of white males. He is through and through a lib.

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Students will feel better if they work for local resilience planning than if they protest big oil.

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Proving mandates don't work is not hard; should we abolish speed limits because "they don't work?"

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As a human aware of the climate disaster threat, I demand that all higher education institutions commit to the mission to create a sustainable human civilization.

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@BryanAlexander so you get good learning results but also a much higher student to senior faculty ratio.

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@BryanAlexander Bryan: a senior faculty could get a group project going over a two week process, then get another group project going, etc. Adjuncts or other less "expensive" educators could monitor the group project until the senior faculty member checks back in

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@BryanAlexander But course design has not changed to incorporate all categories of faculty most efficiently: who is needed at what point in the course?

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@BryanAlexander Bryan: most of the cost of higher ed is personnel; too many high cost tenured professors (I know, I know) being used for lecture when group work is more effective -- but who can point this out?

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@benwerd There is a difference between being religious and being spiritual -- I choose the latter, Ben.

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Michelle Goldberg says our culture is "boring." Can anyone explain to me how one can be bored while alive?

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the insurrectionists who are being sent to prison can experience the form of government they sought -- in prison.

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URGENT: https://t.co/udWUO5WNPM

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I will be "at" the AAEEBL annual conference next week to hear Kathi Yancey give the Batson Lecture. And, I'm not even dead.

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Trump stress tested the U. S. and the U. S. nearly failed but it proved to be "too big to fail."

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re-habbing high ed so it forms a better society: https://t.co/GAGcJH6PBu

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Why are we letting 5 justices supplant congress?

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unfettered capitalism causes pain to many but the R party blames minorities for the pain -- they are the "pain and blame" party.

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Higher education globally will rescue humanity with the changes described at https://t.co/GAGcJH6PBu