the best city for street contact is philly, hands down. everybody talks to everybody on the streets. you can end up discussing politics with perfect strangers for half an hour while your dog stands by super bored
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One of my students said yesterday, "this is the space I feel least likely to be judged," which was lovely, but they also don't know how hard I bite my tongue sometimes to make that possible
Agree on JM, but I'd like a whole lot more vetting on Platner, though. Knowing that he's pushed by the same guy who brought us Fetterman is a bit of a concern.
I'm on that list - my students gasped when I told them --, and as a white woman of white-supremacy-favored ancestry (i.e. German), I've had relatively little grief from it. In stark contrast to my non-white colleagues.
Question for my colleages not at Michigan -- at your institution, where is the office that adjudicates medical leaves etc. situated?
Our outfit is under "financial risk management" ultimately under the purview of the CFO, which seems not ideal. I would have expected it to be under HR.
Agree, Berlin would be my first choice too, though sadly also landlocked. But conditions at German universities are pretty shitty compared to Switzerland.
