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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · Jun 3

Last month I was happy to be part of a gathering on civic thought in higher education, sponsored by @snfagora.bsky.social and AEI . Video is now up at www.aei.org/events/civic... and my panel in specific is at www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKnP... .

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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · May 19

I’m so excited to have you joining us!

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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · May 18

Everyone wants U.S. colleges to produce good citizens. No one knows how. My view with @chrislundberg today via @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/opinion/ever...

Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · May 8

Just withdrew a manuscript from @plos.org one after over seven months with no review. Disappointed cause I like the model but this is unacceptable.

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · Feb 19

New! Sociologists' election reflections as the 2nd Trump Administration took power: @daniellaurison.bsky.social, Mary Romero, @andrewjperrin.bsky.social, A. Spencer-Blume, @cecimenjivar.bsky.social, & E. Bonilla-Silva on the campaigns waged & the battles yet to come tinyurl.com/SPE-election

The front page of Contexts magazine's Winter 2025 Special Section: Election Reflections--And What Comes Next, by Amin Ghaziani and Seth Abrutyn. The image is black, white, and red, with images of flags, check marks, and circles, and the text reads: Just before the 2024 U.S. Presidential election, we asked a group of sociologists--all esteemed researchers from different subfields of our discipline--to think, observe, and write about America's big decision. Here, we present a special, and very timely, section of the magazine: a curated collection of essays that track the pulse of our democracy.

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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · Jan 3

Jeez-I loved the story and thought it was lovely and inspiring parenting. It’s these responses that are so depressing!

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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · Jan 3

www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

Letter | Florida’s Gen Ed Power Struggle

The goal shouldn’t be substituting the legislature’s preferred ideology for the faculty’s, writes Andrew J. Perrin.

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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · Jan 3

In his opening speech, Speaker Mike Johnson just recited a long prayer attributed to Thomas Jefferson.

As @jackjenkins.me and others have pointed out, Jefferson never said any of this: www.monticello.org/research-edu...

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · Dec 20

New @annalsats.bsky.social

Lest a Smoky Haze of Doubt Suffocate Progress Towards Better Pulse Oximeters

This was fun to write with Vincent Ni @jlynch13.bsky.social @hauschildt.bsky.social @drtomori.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1513/Anna... PubMed: 39700509

#FixPulseOx #FixTheDamnMachines

Lest a Smoky Haze of Doubt Suffocate Progress Towards Better Pulse Oximeters | Annals of the American Thoracic Society | Articles in Press

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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · Dec 17

citizens, scholars, and professionals. That’s what the @UNC Ideas in Action curriculum is founded on. [5/5]

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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · Dec 17

offers a substantive rationale for avoiding ideologically driven courses in gen ed without simply substituting one group’s ideology for another’s. And most importantly it puts students’ needs before those of faculty, focusing on graduating rounded, capable people as [4/]

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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · Dec 17

what capacities students most need for civic, intellectual, moral, and yes professional success, and foster those capacities through substantive courses across human knowledge. Then measure outcomes and adjust: are students gaining those capacities? This approach [3/]

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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · Dec 17

They contrast this vision to “sprawl” in gen ed where “tendentious” and “exotic” approaches are taught. Yes gen ed can sprawl, but substituting their ideologically driven (“great”, “sacred”, “momentous”) content is no solution. The right approach is to examine [2/]

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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · Dec 17

The authors assert: “General education presumes a body of knowledge that all students should absorb, a core of great works, historic persons and events, momentous inquiries, prized ideas and sacred truths.” [1/] www.chronicle.com/article/prof...

Professors Ruined Gen Ed. Florida is Fixing It.

When faculty members don’t do their jobs, the state must step in.

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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · Nov 18

Still very on point

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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · Nov 15

Job!

Mary-Collier Wilks, PhD @profmarycollier.bsky.social · Nov 15

JOB ALERT! My department is hiring an Assistant Prof in Sociology. Area of specialization is open. Feel free to DM me if you have any questions about the position. Deadline is Nov. 20th!

jobs.uncw.edu/postings/33746

Assistant Professor - Sociology

The Department of Sociology and Criminology is seeking to hire a nine-month, tenure-track sociologist at the rank of assistant professor beginning August 2025. Upon initial appointment, the successful...

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Mary-Collier Wilks, PhD @profmarycollier.bsky.social · Nov 15

JOB ALERT! My department is hiring an Assistant Prof in Sociology. Area of specialization is open. Feel free to DM me if you have any questions about the position. Deadline is Nov. 20th!

jobs.uncw.edu/postings/33746

Assistant Professor - Sociology

The Department of Sociology and Criminology is seeking to hire a nine-month, tenure-track sociologist at the rank of assistant professor beginning August 2025. Upon initial appointment, the successful...

jobs.uncw.edu

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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · Nov 15

My suspicion is you’re confusing cause and effect. People report “believing” these things because people like them are supposed to believe them. Attitude/identity => misinformation/belief, not the other way around. (Again, my suspicion, not a demonstrated finding.)

Tamar de Waal @tamardewaal.bsky.social · Oct 23

'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)

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Carolina Population Center @uncpopcenter.bsky.social · Nov 11

Applications are open for The Carolina Population Center’s Population Science Training Program. The postdoctoral traineeship prepares scientists to become leaders in population health fields. The deadline to apply is Dec. 18.

Apply now: bit.ly/4h3lpUy

Post-Doc Trainee

The Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is inviting applications for a postdoctoral position funded as part of its NICHD-funded T32 population science trainin...

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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · Sep 27

In yesterday’s piece in @seattletimes @chrislundberg and I argue that real, conflictual, evidence-informed debate on campus could have avoided or improved the encampment situation. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-...

Bringing ideas into the open keeps messy protest encampments at bay | Op-Ed

College administrations have come to value avoiding conflict over encouraging intellectual and political risk, the authors write.

www.seattletimes.com

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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · Sep 18

The Squandered Promise of General Education - my new piece with A. T. Panter about elevating gen ed. In @HigherEdWorks www.publicedworks.org/2024/09/the-...

The squandered promise of general education - Public Ed Works

By Andrew J. Perrin and A.T. Panter CHAPEL HILL (September 18, 2024) –General Education. Distribution Requirements. Such standards – required by nearly every institution of higher learning and prescri...

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Neal Caren @haphazardsoc.bsky.social · Sep 16

We've got two jobs!

Carolina Sociology is hiring at the Assistant or Associate levels with a focus on gender, sexualities and migration. Some HR hiccups slowed down the job posting but not the deadline, so we start review in ten days.

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/288...

Open Rank

This Assistant/Associate Professor position will teach graduate and undergraduate courses, conduct research in the field of Sociology while continuing their own research, participate in departmental s...

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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · Sep 10

Join Leila Brammer and me for a discussion of what we learned (and didn't) from the debate - tomorrow (Sep 11), 4:30-6:00, in Hodson 210 @JHUArtsSciences . Looking forward to the conversation! @SNFAgoraJHU Info and registration: snfagora.jhu.edu/event/what-t...

What to Make of the Presidential Debate : Stavros Niarchos Foundation SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins

Strengthening global democracy through powerful civic engagement and informed, inclusive dialogue

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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · Jul 24

Assistant Professor of Sociology (field open): apply.interfolio.com/150533 . Applications due September 3.

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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · Jul 24

Assistant Professor of Sociology: Race & Ethnicity (apply.interfolio.com/150532 ) as part of the interdisciplinary Advancing Racial Equity in Health, Housing, and Education(ARE_HHE) cluster (research.jhu.edu/bloomberg-dist…). Applications due September 3.

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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · Jul 24

JHU Sociology @JHUArtsSciences is hiring FOUR assistant professors in the coming year! We are so excited to continue our growth.

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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · Jun 6

The SNF Agora Institute @JohnsHopkins @SNFAgoraJHU is looking for a Communications Manager - if that’s you come work with an amazing group of people on discovery, dialogue, and design for democracy! jobs.jhu.edu/job/Batimore...

Communications Manager

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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · Dec 16

We are super excited to officially welcome Monica Prasad to JHU Sociology and the SNF Agora Institute as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor! hub.jhu.edu/2023/12/15/s...

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Andrew Perrin @andrewjperrin.bsky.social · Dec 16

Hey can I join? Doing rather than being is super important to all kinds of democracy stuff.

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