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🔗 linkblog: Beshear is ‘losing confidence’ in University of Kentucky admin following recent hirings • Kentucky Lantern
You know, I wasn’t sure about the choice of Van Tatenhove as the next law school dean, but I figured that I didn’t know that much about the guy, and if the law faculty was on board, I ought to trust that rather than my gut reaction.
Finding out that faculty were not on board and that the university seems to have made the decision from above despite faculty concerns is more worrying than any concern I previously had.
🔗 linkblog: Trump picks fight with Pope Leo as Iran peace talks dissolve • Kentucky Lantern
I know we live in ridiculous times, and I have a print subscription to The Onion, and this is still one of the most bewildering articles I’ve read recently. I felt like I had to suspend my disbelief to make it on to each successive paragraph.
🔗 linkblog: NKU to cut down remote work, offer buyouts to tenured faculty • Kentucky Lantern
Hope this isn’t a canary for Lexington’s coal mine.
🔗 linkblog: Former faculty leader leaves University of Kentucky after bucking president’s governance plan • Kentucky Lantern
I don’t have the whole picture here, and I don’t like passing judgment without having the whole picture, but I don’t know if I like this.
🔗 linkblog: Kentucky could be on the eve of a data center boom. But in Mason County details are sketchy. • Kentucky Lantern
Helpful reminder that data center problems are not just hypothetical—they’re potentially local.
🔗 linkblog: Kentucky Republican lawmaker questions gender and women’s studies course at UK • Kentucky Lantern
So far, we’ve been told that the General Assembly’s war on DEI doesn’t affect our classroom teaching. Is this legislative bluster, or do we have worries on the horizon?
🔗 linkblog: Beshear vetoes bill Kentucky professors say erodes academic tenure at public universities • Kentucky Lantern
This is unlikely to make a difference, but I’m grateful anyway.
🔗 linkblog: House education chair says professor review bill is not aimed at limiting tenure in Kentucky - Kentucky Lantern'
You can say that, but it’s hard to understand how this isn’t limiting tenure.
🔗 linkblog: Kentucky Senate leader files bill to curb 'divisive concepts' in public higher education - Kentucky Lantern'
Welp, here’s something to pay attention to this legislative session.
🔗 linkblog: Calls for action on gun violence meet silence from Kentucky's Republican legislative leaders - Kentucky Lantern'
Local shame in response to local tragedy.