Timothy R Cain

Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 04:50 UTC

FWIW, I am an educationist who does historical work. I find arguments that include sketchy history to be far less credible than those that don't include history. If you want to make claims by linking to history, then get the history right. Otherwise, just make the claims.

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 03:48 UTC

Sort of like Bloom's Closing of the American Mind. Spent weeks at the top of the NYT non-fiction list--even though a lot of it was fiction (and racist, sexist, etc.). I cannot imagine that most people who bought it actually read it. It is basically an argument for a (horrific) college curriculum.

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 03:18 UTC

The AAUP's 1915 Declaration is relevant: "In a political autocracy there is no effective public opinion, and all are subject to the tyranny of the ruler; in a democracy .... there is likely to be a tyranny of public opinion. An inviolable refuge from such tyranny should be found in the university."

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 03:13 UTC

This really is an extreme argument that could end the efficacy of public higher education: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 01:59 UTC

Eesh. That is terrible for the staff, students, and faculty affected. I am curious about the process and reasoning--the article says "emergency," which could be journalistic license or a school trying to avoid the term "exigency." Also curious about how it is understood / treated in the LOA realm.

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 01:32 UTC

It is.

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 01:28 UTC

Is the chair named for a different W. E. B. Du Bois? Not the one who blasted Fisk for capitulating (in a commencement address, no less), harshly criticized students for not being activists, and quit disinterested scholarship after the lynching of Sam Hose? Must be a different one.

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 01:43 UTC

Or centuries. I’d go with 1723 and the Fellowship Controversy resulting in the denial of tutors’ membership on the Corporation.

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social [ View ] May 25, 2024 at 01:16 UTC

Thanks, Adam!

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social [ View ] May 25, 2024 at 01:15 UTC

Thanks, Cam. It was a fun project to work on, even though the findings were troubling. I am glad that it is available Open Access due to the efforts of UGA Libraries.

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social [ View ] May 20, 2024 at 03:21 UTC

Those protests made a real difference in the national conversation about Apartheid. And, after a few early missteps, universities handled them FAR better than they have handle the recent protests.

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social [ View ] May 20, 2024 at 03:11 UTC

Apropos to nothing: I would love to teach a seminar on higher ed in the 20s and 30s. We'd read Fass, Levine, Wechsler, Cohen, etc. We'd consider Reed Harris, the NSL, the ASU. & Morris Schappes' "Letters from the Tombs." We'd talk about Anacostia Flats (& the GI Bill), Elizabeth Dilling, and all.

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social [ View ] May 10, 2024 at 03:02 UTC

The changes he made for many of us were huge, but when I hear that lyric, it makes me want to be better, to do better. Six years on, he is still making changes to earth.

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social [ View ] May 10, 2024 at 03:00 UTC

Scott Hutchison left 6 years ago, on May 9, 2018.  I think of him, his work, and the need to attend to mental health every day, but especially days like today. He offered so much, but the line that resonates most fully is: “While I’m alive, I’ll make tiny changes to earth.”

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social [ View ] May 01, 2024 at 21:45 UTC

It ends: "Even after Shafik offered up faculty sacrifices on the congressional altar and called in the N.Y.P.D., Republicans responded by demanding her resignation. If capitulation isn’t working, not much is lost by trying some defiance."

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social [ View ] May 01, 2024 at 21:43 UTC

Menand's article on academic freedom in the May 6 New Yorker deserves to be read: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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