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Gratitude and Learning
When Herold started her post-undergraduate career as a classroom educator, she recalls stating in her job interview that she wanted to make a difference in her students' lives. Today that strikes her as very Pollyannaish, but she was a twenty-two-year-old newly degreed English major with a Behavioral Science concentration who chose to read fairy tales, fantasy, science fiction, and romance as her elective reading. She was energetic and optimistic. She probably still is several decades and a different career later. It's rather ironic that when she was teaching, she took for granted the thanks of appreciative parents and notes and gifts of current and former students. She was immersed in the daily work of lesson planning, grading, and reading the history textbook to keep ahead of her students. It wasn't until she was teaching history that she took a college history course.
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Who speaks for the university? Social fiction as a lens for reimagining higher education futures
This paper combines social fiction and academic analysis to envision hopeful futures for higher education. At the heart of the exploration is Phoebe Wagner’s speculative fiction piece,
University, Speaking
, which personifies a university grappling with environmental, political, and social change. Phoebe Wagner’s first-person narrative highlights the power of collective voice, the importance of centering community, and the urgent need to cultivate resilience and adaptability. Through analysis of key themes, this paper connects Phoebe Wagner’s fictional vision to contemporary research on the multi-faceted and complex challenges facing universities today. By integrating artistic and academic perspectives, this paper discusses new possibilities for universities navigating disruption and change.
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Student of Light
Recently I found out that he was the first of my mom's siblings to ask their father if he could leave the family to study engineering and music. Before I knew this, a dark and perverse part of me imagined and still imagines that he broke his fingers deliberately because he couldn't live towards his dreams. 7) I'd been in bed for seven days until a calm voice inside my head told me I needed to get up and talk to somebody, before I ended up like how I used to be-a major depressive and an addict. If I hadn't done that, it would've been published with a press where a man accused of sexual assault was an editor. 8) When I worked as an editor at a press a couple of years ago, I worked alongside an older white woman who had been there for years. What kind of teacher could go ahead with a syllabus and reading list that didn't reflect their students' lives and experiences?
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Chalk Talks - Gordon College, Religious Liberty and Accreditation
The federal court in the Northern District of Georgia called it \"legal fiction\" that accrediting agencies are not state actors.4 Notably, a recent article in the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy has called for the total scrapping of the notion that accreditation agencies are not state actors due to the entwinement of the federal government and the agencies.5 This new approach is the more accurate way to view accrediting agencies due to the necessity of accreditation for federal financial aid.6 The result of accrediting agencies being state actors is that there are religious liberty implications that must be examined in light of the Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell.1 These concerns were not lost on the court.In the 2014-2015 school year, at four-year private colleges and universities, 89.6% of students received some state, federal, or institutional aid. 60% of that aid was in the form of federal student loans.20 It is no different at Gordon College where the tuition for the 20172018 academic year was $35,180.21 During that same period, 73.9% of the student body participated in a federal loan program, with the average undergrad borrowing $25,018.22 The inability to participate in federal loan programs would likely bankrupt Gordon College as it does to almost all schools that cannot distribute federal loans.The actions of NEASC are an overreach of an accreditors authority and could have had resulted in almost 2,000 students needing to locate a new university.28 If NEASC had revoked Gordon College's accreditation over the college's stance on same-sex marriage and its student handbook, then the accreditation agency would have been entering new territory for an accrediting agency.Since the accreditor is a gatekeeper and an arm of the state, its actions must be viewed through the leans of it being a state actor.[...]it goes counter to the ruling in Obergefell that religious organizations are protected \"to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faiths.
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Debt Aesthetics: Medium Specificity and Social Practice in the Work of Cassie Thornton
This article considers the “debt visualizations” of social practice artist Cassie Thornton. Thorton’s works use a combination of photography, performance art, sculpture, non-fiction narrative, text, and hypertext to explore the cost and consequence of the accumulation of student loans. The essay examines Thornton’s use of both traditional and non-traditional artistic materials and practices in order to articulate how the ‘immaterials’ of debt become an artistic medium; her radical departure from traditional media leads squarely back to the problem of the medium itself in Thornton’s assertion that “debt is [her] medium.” While it is tempting to read such a claim as an embrace of a “post-medium condition,” this essay argues that in our highly leveraged present, the very form of unsecured student debt that Thornton works in and on invites a return to and a reconsideration of the seemingly conservative impulses of aesthetic Modernism and its critique.
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