Ava Amanda
@avamanda.bsky.social
I just stumbled on here one day. Urban planning student, she/her.
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Or, of course, give you up as a burnt offering to the anti-woke online-hate brigade if your syllabus says anything even vaguely interesting.
December 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Or, of course, give you up as a burnt offering to the anti-woke online-hate brigade if your syllabus says anything even vaguely interesting.
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To be clear, a standard part of job applications are providing sample syllabi - often a whole portfolio of them - because *your syllabi* are part of the value proposition of hiring *you* and not *someone else.*
Now the university wants to steal your materials, then sack and replace you.
Now the university wants to steal your materials, then sack and replace you.
December 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
To be clear, a standard part of job applications are providing sample syllabi - often a whole portfolio of them - because *your syllabi* are part of the value proposition of hiring *you* and not *someone else.*
Now the university wants to steal your materials, then sack and replace you.
Now the university wants to steal your materials, then sack and replace you.
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So I imagine that, starting in the Fall, my Syllabi will comply with the *letter* of the rules set out and then I will have some separate, non-syllabus document - a 'course schedule' perhaps - which I hand out and probably is never distributed digitally.
Which sucks, but how else is one to respond?
Which sucks, but how else is one to respond?
December 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
So I imagine that, starting in the Fall, my Syllabi will comply with the *letter* of the rules set out and then I will have some separate, non-syllabus document - a 'course schedule' perhaps - which I hand out and probably is never distributed digitally.
Which sucks, but how else is one to respond?
Which sucks, but how else is one to respond?
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My syllabi as they exist *now* are to a significant degree plug-and-play: every assignment, every reading spelled out, on a day-by-day schedule.
I built that and it is part of 'my product' that I bring to the university. I do not get paid separately for course preparation/creation.
I built that and it is part of 'my product' that I bring to the university. I do not get paid separately for course preparation/creation.
December 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
My syllabi as they exist *now* are to a significant degree plug-and-play: every assignment, every reading spelled out, on a day-by-day schedule.
I built that and it is part of 'my product' that I bring to the university. I do not get paid separately for course preparation/creation.
I built that and it is part of 'my product' that I bring to the university. I do not get paid separately for course preparation/creation.
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Part of the issue here is faculty develop their own courses - it takes a lot of time and effort to do so - but if the university owns the syllabi they could fire me but keep all of that work and have someone else to teach the course *I* built.
Replacing TT with adjuncts the obvious application.
Replacing TT with adjuncts the obvious application.
December 20, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Part of the issue here is faculty develop their own courses - it takes a lot of time and effort to do so - but if the university owns the syllabi they could fire me but keep all of that work and have someone else to teach the course *I* built.
Replacing TT with adjuncts the obvious application.
Replacing TT with adjuncts the obvious application.
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I've already been hearing faculty discussion adapting to this policy by basically writing stripped down syllabi that include *only* the required boilerplate and nothing else, with things like course themes, reading schedules and such kept in separate documents to avoid the university owning them.
The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester.
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
NEW: Public universities in red states, from Texas to Florida, are increasingly required to make their syllabi public. The University of North Carolina may be next. Does "syllabi transparency" help combat distrust in higher ed, or feed ill-informed suspicions of it? www.chronicle.com/article/when...
December 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I've already been hearing faculty discussion adapting to this policy by basically writing stripped down syllabi that include *only* the required boilerplate and nothing else, with things like course themes, reading schedules and such kept in separate documents to avoid the university owning them.
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It's strange to have such a strong reaction, but seeing Superman, freed of his ennui and deconstructions just *be Superman* in the hands of an actor and director who understand what that means was glorious, like meeting the character fresh.
December 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
It's strange to have such a strong reaction, but seeing Superman, freed of his ennui and deconstructions just *be Superman* in the hands of an actor and director who understand what that means was glorious, like meeting the character fresh.
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Is it the greatest superhero movie ever? No, probably not.
But it is a *Superman* movie, striking at the core of what Superman is.
And boy is it not subtle with its themes and good for that. Superman is not supposed to be subtle, he is supposed to be Good, with a capital G.
But it is a *Superman* movie, striking at the core of what Superman is.
And boy is it not subtle with its themes and good for that. Superman is not supposed to be subtle, he is supposed to be Good, with a capital G.
December 20, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Is it the greatest superhero movie ever? No, probably not.
But it is a *Superman* movie, striking at the core of what Superman is.
And boy is it not subtle with its themes and good for that. Superman is not supposed to be subtle, he is supposed to be Good, with a capital G.
But it is a *Superman* movie, striking at the core of what Superman is.
And boy is it not subtle with its themes and good for that. Superman is not supposed to be subtle, he is supposed to be Good, with a capital G.
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I don't think anything is wrong with The American Way.
We just need to live up to it.
We just need to live up to it.
December 20, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I don't think anything is wrong with The American Way.
We just need to live up to it.
We just need to live up to it.
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And those unvarnished, unconcealed themes are right back to the old core of the character: Superman, the pure and unbeatable avatar of Truth, Justice and the American Way is also the purest immigrant, who tries his best, accepts people for who they are, an embodiment of America at its best.
December 20, 2025 at 3:48 AM
And those unvarnished, unconcealed themes are right back to the old core of the character: Superman, the pure and unbeatable avatar of Truth, Justice and the American Way is also the purest immigrant, who tries his best, accepts people for who they are, an embodiment of America at its best.
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Just so fun to have a movie - and Gunn is good at this, Guardians does this too - which is unafraid to have some jokes, but at its core to take itself serious, to present its values with no cynicism, with no irony, with undeconstructed sincerity and just wear them honestly.
And it works.
And it works.
December 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Just so fun to have a movie - and Gunn is good at this, Guardians does this too - which is unafraid to have some jokes, but at its core to take itself serious, to present its values with no cynicism, with no irony, with undeconstructed sincerity and just wear them honestly.
And it works.
And it works.
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Naturally it is always the time you have been good and gotten to the airport with plenty of time that your flight gets delayed.
December 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Naturally it is always the time you have been good and gotten to the airport with plenty of time that your flight gets delayed.
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Finally watched the James Gunn Superman (on a plane) and man does that guy know how to cut to the core of what these characters are.
Also not a particularly novel, but the use of the Superman (1978) motif to basically scream "actually, this IS your daddy's Superman" is just inspired.
Also not a particularly novel, but the use of the Superman (1978) motif to basically scream "actually, this IS your daddy's Superman" is just inspired.
December 20, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Finally watched the James Gunn Superman (on a plane) and man does that guy know how to cut to the core of what these characters are.
Also not a particularly novel, but the use of the Superman (1978) motif to basically scream "actually, this IS your daddy's Superman" is just inspired.
Also not a particularly novel, but the use of the Superman (1978) motif to basically scream "actually, this IS your daddy's Superman" is just inspired.
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Their rhetoric is about 'apologizing for being white' but I have spent my entire adult life in academia and while those spaces (rarely) existed, you had to volunteer for them.
What they are actually mourning is the loss of *domination* the loss of white as the default, normal.
What they are actually mourning is the loss of *domination* the loss of white as the default, normal.
December 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Their rhetoric is about 'apologizing for being white' but I have spent my entire adult life in academia and while those spaces (rarely) existed, you had to volunteer for them.
What they are actually mourning is the loss of *domination* the loss of white as the default, normal.
What they are actually mourning is the loss of *domination* the loss of white as the default, normal.
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They aren't mad their perspective isn't taught - it is still taught, it is still the *primary* perspective taught.
They're mad that any other perspectives are included at all.
And, you know, fuck them. The United States is *more* than a white ethnostate.
They're mad that any other perspectives are included at all.
And, you know, fuck them. The United States is *more* than a white ethnostate.
December 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
They aren't mad their perspective isn't taught - it is still taught, it is still the *primary* perspective taught.
They're mad that any other perspectives are included at all.
And, you know, fuck them. The United States is *more* than a white ethnostate.
They're mad that any other perspectives are included at all.
And, you know, fuck them. The United States is *more* than a white ethnostate.
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The history teaching they experience as demanding 'apologies for being white' is just 'factual descriptions of trans-Atlantic slavery' or 'factual descriptions for how the United States ended up with so much territory.'
No one is actually asking you to apologize for that, but they don't care.
No one is actually asking you to apologize for that, but they don't care.
December 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The history teaching they experience as demanding 'apologies for being white' is just 'factual descriptions of trans-Atlantic slavery' or 'factual descriptions for how the United States ended up with so much territory.'
No one is actually asking you to apologize for that, but they don't care.
No one is actually asking you to apologize for that, but they don't care.