Virtual Pedagogue

A mid-career professor at a university in the Midwest, I share my musings about the challenges and rewards of mindful online teaching.

[Virtual Pedagogue @virtualpedagog]

Some schools are betting that working-class students will be too ignorant to notice they’re paying research university tuition for a community college experience. @AAUP @insidehighered #phdlife #COVID19 #college #pandemic #backtoschool @TAUAFT @SaveWMU
https://t.co/kTR6lM7VTn

[Virtual Pedagogue @virtualpedagog]

Some schools are betting that working-class students will be too ignorant to notice they’re paying research university tuition for a community college experience. @AAUP @insidehighered #phdlife #COVID19 #college #pandemic #backtoschool @TAUAFT @SaveWMU
https://t.co/kTR6lM7VTn

[Virtual Pedagogue @virtualpedagog]

The notion of institutional sacrifice is shaped by sex and race, making it more likely that women faculty, especially women of color, will feel called to bear the brunt of the pain. @AAUP @WesternMichU @SaveWMU @insidehighered #highered #phdchat

https://t.co/StKZqsDltp

[Virtual Pedagogue @virtualpedagog]

The notion of institutional sacrifice is shaped by sex and race, making it more likely that women faculty, especially women of color, will feel called to bear the brunt of the pain. @AAUP @WesternMichU @SaveWMU @insidehighered #highered #phdchat

https://t.co/StKZqsDltp

[Virtual Pedagogue @virtualpedagog]

Shown up close in virtual “forums,” hopping from one trusty cliche to another, whatever mystique administrators once projected is being stripped away. #HigherEducation #onlinelearning @aaup @SaveWMU @WesternHerald @insidehighered @chronicle #pandemic
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[Virtual Pedagogue @virtualpedagog]

Why do administrators (also trained professors) push ever heavier teaching/research loads onto faculty while abandoning their own classrooms/labs, even during this crisis time? @aaup @WesternMichU @WMU_CAS #affordablecollege @WMUProvost @timeshighered

https://t.co/rOPFCUwFSX

[Virtual Pedagogue @virtualpedagog]

As students and their families place faith in universities to get it right in 2020-21, what an insult that student learning has become such a low priority. @AcademeBlog @AcademicChatter @SaveWMU @WesternMichU @WesternHerald @AAUP @TAUAFT

https://t.co/DDTOOjrnVl

[Virtual Pedagogue @virtualpedagog]

Universities founded on equity and respect will weather this storm, but top-down schools infused with secrecy began to crumble almost the very day stay-at-home orders took effect. #aaup #college @SolidarityWMU @WMU_CAS @WMUProvost @MLive #PureMichigan

https://t.co/SsvjglEjPc

[Virtual Pedagogue @virtualpedagog]

Universities founded on equity and respect will weather this storm, but top-down schools infused with secrecy began to crumble almost the very day stay-at-home orders took effect. #aaup #college @SolidarityWMU @WMU_CAS @WMUProvost @MLive #PureMichigan

https://t.co/SsvjglEjPc

[Virtual Pedagogue @virtualpedagog]

Why do administrators (also trained professors) push ever heavier teaching/research loads onto faculty while abandoning their own classrooms/labs, even during this crisis time? @aaup @WesternMichU @WMU_CAS #affordablecollege @WMUProvost @timeshighered

https://t.co/rOPFCUwFSX

[Virtual Pedagogue @virtualpedagog]

These days, suggesting that elite university administrators consider teaching is like asking the CEO of Disney to clean up the vomit on Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride. @insidehighered @AAUP @SaveWMU #phdchat #AcademicChatter @WesternMichU @chronicle

https://t.co/rOPFCUwFSX

[Virtual Pedagogue @virtualpedagog]

The need for brave, questioning professorial voices is more urgent than ever, and we must resist the temptation to glorify the authority of administrators who may not even know what they are doing. @WesternMichU @aaup @SaveWMU @TenuredRadical @college
https://t.co/FhHKxdkFLs

[Virtual Pedagogue @virtualpedagog]

@aaup #aaup @SaveWMU @WesternMichU @WMU_CAS @chronicle #phdchat @WMUAAUP #pandemic2020 #HigherEducation @insidehighered #memorialdayweekend2020 #kalamazoo @AkronAAUP #COVID

[Virtual Pedagogue @virtualpedagog]

“It’s as if a treaty had been signed by admin from the outset that, whatever budget cuts might occur, existing salary inequities, power structures, and habitual priorities must not be challenged” @aaup @wmu @insidehighered @savewmu @womeninhighered @nwsa

https://t.co/SsvjglEjPc

[Virtual Pedagogue @virtualpedagog]

“It’s as if a treaty had been signed by admin from the outset that, whatever budget cuts might occur, existing salary inequities, power structures, and habitual priorities must not be challenged” @aaup @wmu @insidehighered @savewmu @womeninhighered @nwsa

https://t.co/SsvjglEjPc

[Gender and Women's Studies @ WMU @GWSatWMU]

WMU Gender and Women’s Studies’ hard-won departmental status is at risk and we need your voices! @nwsa https://t.co/LXlg7epdqL

[Virtual Pedagogue @virtualpedagog]

In a frenzy to deal with financial crises, are universities creating ethical catastrophes that will destroy the values that make them worth preserving in the first place? #aaup @aaup #HigherEducation @chronicle #westernmichiganuniversity @insidehighered

https://t.co/b0NK3U0YsS

[Virtual Pedagogue @virtualpedagog]

In a frenzy to deal with financial crises, are universities creating ethical catastrophes that will destroy the values that make them worth preserving in the first place? #aaup @aaup #HigherEducation @chronicle #westernmichiganuniversity @insidehighered

https://t.co/b0NK3U0YsS

[Virtual Pedagogue @virtualpedagog]

This is an awful time in most ways, but it is the perfect time to discover how much our universities actually value teaching and learning. #aaup @AAUP #highered @insidehighered @chronicle #professor #university #college
https://t.co/SuETTnMPXG

[Virtual Pedagogue @virtualpedagog]

This is an awful time in most ways, but it is the perfect time to discover how much our universities actually value teaching and learning. #aaup @AAUP #highered @insidehighered @chronicle #professor #university #college
https://t.co/SuETTnMPXG