Do you at least get to teach multiple sections of the same course? I only have two different courses to prep this semester (three sections of one, one of the other) but in the spring I'm teaching four different courses, two of which are brand new to me.

A few years back the governor tried to raise our loads to 5-5, and our union smacked him down hard. I really wish "make it easier to form effective unions" was higher on the priority list for Dem leaders, but I guess that would get in the way of sucking up to tech billionaires.

Also, as someone whose research and teaching span the STEM/non-STEM divide, I can assure you that useless research that nobody reads is a cross-disciplinary phenomenon. People just give incomprehensible papers the benefit of the doubt when the title says "computational" but not "intersectional."

Our research expectations are, of course, much lower than for faculty at schools where 2-2 or 2-1 is the norm, but the point is that different universities are organized differently and that's good -- you can't slap a one-size-fits-all set of work expectations on the whole sector.

"Haha, 'disease-ridden vulture carcasses ' is a great turn of phrase, let me look at the original post to see what it's referring to ... oh."

I don't live in California. I'm talking about Newsom's likely run for president.

And if me telling people I don't want them to support Newsom is fascist, then surely telling me that I should be doing political activism differently is also fascist. Checkmate!

Even just among currently serving Democratic governors, you've got Pritzker or Walz or Beshear ... heck, I'm willing to consider a "lesser evil" vote for Shapiro if it comes down to it. Just don't let Newsom on the ticket.

Undocumented people are still people, human beings with human rights.

If there are a good variety of veg sides available I really don't care if I have a substitute "main" dish.

I design my tests (when I even have tests) so that the average no-accommodations student will be able to finish it in about half the allotted time, because "answering things quickly" is not one of the learning outcomes in any of my courses.

So much of this anti-accommodations fearmongering fixates on extended time on tests, as if the ability to sit in a room and fill in a bunch of scantron bubbles quickly is some important measure of your worth as a person.

The point of education is for students to learn. If an accommodation helps a student learn, that is an inherently good thing. We should be handing them out like candy. (If giving accommodations costs too much money maybe cut the football head coach's salary by 1%.)

The division of universities into elite and non-elite is bullshit -- my students at a regional public school or community college are no less deserving of a good education and opportunities to succeed and make the world a better place than my classmates at my elite undergrad alma mater.

What kind of asshole tells students they're too stupid for their university and should go to community college instead? Reason magazine writer Emma Camp and her editors, apparently.