Urgency
From today’s campus coronavirus update: “News this week of a spike in positive COVID-19 cases in the East Lansing area highlight the importance and urgency o...
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Your Institution Does Not Deserve to Survive
That is: unless you are committed to the survival of the people who make up and serve that institution first, foremost, and above all.
Generosity in Hard Times
Over the course of the last couple of years, I’ve spoken on several college and university campuses where faculty, staff, students, and administrators have b...
Isolation, Mission, Connection
The last month has been an utter blur. We traveled for spring break, which is on the early end of things here; we left Michigan in late February for a bit ov...
Infrastructure and Capacity Building
Crossposted from Platypus.
Becoming Human
This brief presentation was part of a panel at MLA 2020 in Seattle entitled “Being Human, Seeming Human.” The panel brought together researchers from Microso...
Generosity, Humility, Vulnerability
A few conversations in recent days, as well as a bunch of the reading I did during my holiday writing retreat, have led me back to thinking about generosity....
Bonilla-Silva, Racism without Racists
Those of us who labor in academia have a responsibility and a role to play in the transformation of society, but we are not, and should never aspire to be...
Loss, Shame, Validation, and Work
This is likely to be a bit of a hike. It’s one of those posts in which some precipitating event has sent me off on a bit of an introspective tail-spin, and s...
Anodyne
Words come in and out of common usage, sure, but every once in a while I’m caught up short by repeatedly hearing a word that feels otherwise rare. Lately: “a...