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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman

@drszuckerman.bsky.social

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Associate Professor of Educational Administration: studies school improvement and community partnerships as collective action problems; increasingly interested in knowledge creation and use; expert cat mom; beginner quilter. All views are my own.

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 10h

Let's take education back to the 1860's but also make it make my tech friends rich

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 12h

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(Here are a few of the ed tech ads I've been tracking over the past few months)

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 12h

I need someone to explain why Ezra Klein thinks Dems need to be themselves but should also be excited that Dan Osborne us running again. Has he been checked for a brain work lately?

Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 13h

Dear past me, I would like to speak to the manager. This 6:25 am flight landed 25 minutes before the next one to Utah. How did you manage to violate all of our work travel nopes?

Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 15h

Well then, President Gold had better reject this nonsense when it finally gets down to NU

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 15h

This is still a pretty narrow statement focused on research. Membership organizations that include red-state publics are being very careful about their statements, although the AAU has a bit of leeway because of its prestige.

Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 1d

I missed this yesterday: the AAU has come out against the compact. I am pleasantly surprised. I think it makes it pretty hard for any university to accept the deal now, with a possible exception of Texas. www.aau.edu/newsroom/pre...

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 23h

Everything is f-ed

Source: USA Today
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Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 1d

I bet ours look pretty good too.

Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon has the nicest football uniforms. You would think they weren’t laying off professors.

Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 1d

You cannot fire faculty and have it go unnoticed. the Chancellor, President, and Regents are on notice

www.klkntv.com/unl-students...

UNL students, professors hold demonstration as $27.5 million budget cut looms

Dozens gathered in the courtyard on Innovation Campus as the Academic Planning Committee held hearings about the proposed budget cuts.

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 2d

We are all Stats and EAS this afternoon for the last APC hearing✊🏻

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 2d

They come for faculty whose full time job it is to teach and discover knowledge alongside our students.

Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 2d

And that 2 million dollar number is 300,000 above the number we were given and doesn't count the revenue they will also leave. Because no one is coming to do a certificate at UNL staffed by adjuncts. They can do that a lot of other places for a lot less. They come for us.

Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 2d

These cuts are short-sighted.

www.1011now.com/2025/10/10/u...

UNL professors raise alarm over job security as budget cuts loom

The proposed budget cuts include terminating six different departments at UNL.

www.1011now.com

Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 3d

What's the most awkward time you told someone you loved them? I'll go! When I hugged my chair today after she walked out of our APC hearing 😂

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 3d

😂 that's the truth

Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 3d

Time to make the data!

a man in a chef 's hat is standing in front of a door that says time to make the donuts

ALT: a man in a chef 's hat is standing in front of a door that says time to make the donuts

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 4d

And to disconnect students from their peers. You know who cannot come together and rise up against our overlords? People who don't know how to talk to one another

Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 6d

Should You Stay in Academe or Go? share.google/Amv4Irfugthf...

According to UNL, I should go 😝

Advice | Should You Stay in Academe or Go?

How to assess your odds of finding a faculty job and figure out when to pivot to another career.

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 7d

Slowly starve the universities. Why is UNL in financial trouble? IDK because the state refuses to fund it and we had tuition freezes and then insufficient increases during a time when the cost of everything is skyrocketing?

Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 7d

Unsurprising that they targeted interim presidents. I'm pretty sure my department was targeted because have an interim chair

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 8d

I'm glad I was able to talk to a friend that went through this the day they told us. Knowing what to expect helped. Even if what to expect was anxiety and chaos. But damn, this is the most maddening and depressing thing I've ever dealt with

Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 8d

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BOR comments from AAUP members

Metrics over Mission? - The Bugeater

Beth Niehaus, UNL AAUP Chapter Member-at-Large, spoke at the NU Board of Regents meeting on Friday, October 3rd. She spoke about the importance of values to institutions of higher education and the di...

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 9d

Almost 20 faculty and staff traveled to Omaha today to tell the Board of Regents exactly what we think of the program cuts.

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AAUP Road Trip to BOR - The Bugeater

I have always loved roading tripping with my colleagues, especially for field work. Today’s road trip was for some less enjoyable reasons, but the company was still excellent. Members of programs iden...

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 10d

One faculty, one Nebraska

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 11d

Program closures hurt Nebraskans!

Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you colleagues in community and regional planning for your slogan work!