Posts Tagged ‘pandemic’
Pandemic and Graduate Training
categories: academic library
What We Learned in the Pandemic About Graduate Training
Three Covid-inspired innovations shed light on what needs to change in graduate education
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-we-learned-in-the-pandemic-about-graduate-training
- How we admit students to graduate school.
- How we mentor graduate students.
- How we improve fairness, equity, and inclusion.
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more on grad students in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=graduate+students
Gig Academy
House of Cards: Can the American university be saved?
Daniel BessnerTwitter Sept 8, 2929
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gig-academy-meritocracy-trap-universities-crisis/
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Your Classes Are on Zoom and Your Teaching Staff Is Being Cut
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/04/academia-uk-essex-university-layoffs-higher-education/
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On the Current Situation: Normal Violences, Pandemics, Emergencies, Necropolitics, Zombies, and Creepy Treehouses?Jeremy Hunsinger
https://fastcapitalism.journal.library.uta.edu/index.php/fastcapitalism/article/view/386
library during pandemic
categories: academic library
Was asked to share this:
“Why are nonessential @dallaslibrary staff working during a shelter in place order? Respect the health and safety of @CityOfDallas employees and their families.”
(I heartily and angrily endorse this message!)
— Rita Meade (@ScrewyDecimal) March 23, 2020
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Dear governors everywhere (except New Jersey 💜),
Please fully close all types of libraries, to patrons AND staff specifically, in your orders to stay at home & shelter in place. If you don’t, our colleagues will continue to be endangered for no reason.
Love,#closethelibraries
— CLOSE THE LIBRARIES (@eminencefont) March 25, 2020