(I’m challenging myself to write daily starting now, 8/7/2025) Disclaimers: First, I have been challenging myself to write daily. I fell off for a whole week. Back at it now. Secondarily, my writing for this challenge is largely stream of consciousness. This is my thinking, things I’m puzzling through, knowledge I am building for myself….
Category: higher education
Supporting Our Students and Ourselves the Day After
Purpose: Recognize: To prepare our classrooms and virtual campus for additional predicted violence surrounding the upcoming Inauguration of President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris on January 20, 2021. Manage what is to yet to come: We must reckon with the violent insurrection we witnessed on our nation’s capitol and remain vigilant beyond 1/20/2020 because white supremacy…
The Responsibility of Higher Education to Eradicate White Supremacy
Higher education in the United States has a white supremacy problem from root to stem. As with every long-standing system in this country, white supremacy is just baked into our curriculum, processes, and policies. Our inequitable outcomes are perfectly predicatable. The system is working as it was designed. So, in 2020, at this inflection point…
Grouchy in Paradise 