Burton Speakman
burtonspeakman.bsky.social
Burton Speakman
@burtonspeakman.bsky.social
Associate Professor of journalism at Kennesaw State. Former journalist and researcher of partisan media. Here's a link to some of my academic work https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gryU4LAAAAAJ&hl=en
The course was actually English 360 and it was taught over the summer.
September 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Well, the reality is our course descriptions are only a few sentences long. They can’t nearly go through every single thing that will be covered in a course over 15 weeks. If that’s the standard, they can fire every professor in the state of Texas.
September 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
It was, however, in the approved syllabi that was posted online.
September 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Course load was too high for tenure track. She was teaching 5 courses in the fall before firing.
September 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Here's the course syllabi front page and part were it says transgender issues were part of the reading.
September 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It’s much easier to complain and try to change the narrative than acknowledge your party’s actions made this situation worse.
July 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Thrilled to see actions like this.
January 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
And they were willing to lose money to do it.
December 4, 2024 at 9:38 PM
December 2, 2024 at 7:58 PM