Below are posts associated with the âUniversity of Kentuckyâ tag.
đ linkblog: UK launching social media campaign spotlighting NIH-funded research
NIH funding is an important part of my employerâs budget, so I think this kind of advocacy is important. However, it rubs me the wrong way that weâre speaking up publicly about potential funding cuts and being largely silent and âwell, gotta follow the lawâ when our marginalized students are being targeted.
đ linkblog: ICT class gives thumbs up to new emoji submission to Unicode
This project is one of my favorite things to come out of the program I teach in, and Iâm glad Meghanâs work is getting recognition!
đ linkblog: How the Ph.D. Project, and 45 colleges, became a target of the Trump administration
This is what my employer cut ties with.
đ linkblog: Palestinian deaths in Gaza rise above 50,000 as Israel expands its military campaign
50,000 is roughly as much as all students, faculty, and staff at the University of Kentucky. The whole university gone.
đ linkblog: UK ends relationship with nonprofit amid Trump admin investigation
On one hand, if the universityâs connections are tenuous, I can understand making the easy move to get the administration off our backâespecially when Iâm confident that UK is pushing back against NIH indirect costs and other issues. On the other, I certainly hope that our response to every attack isnât going to be to roll over and wash our hands of things.
đ linkblog: UK board votes to dissolve university Senate, outlines role of new faculty body'
I have tried to be open minded about this, and I am always hesitant to take a position on something that I havenât done all the homework on. I also agree with the point the presidentâs made that staff, students, and non-tenure-track faculty donât have enough of a voice, so Iâm open to changing what inclusive governance looks like at UK.
This doesnât seem to me to be it, though. Even without having done all the homework, the presidentâs arguments donât land for me, and I donât see how removing the facultyâs voice gives staff and students more of a voice.
đ linkblog: UK, KCTCS create pathways allowing community college students to transfer into UK'
Iâm all for this, but in line with earlier posts from today, I wish it werenât just about workplace readiness. Higher ed needs to be more than that.
đ linkblog: Academiaâs emphasis on job training harms free speech, bodes ill for democracy | Opinion'
Some important points in this op-ed from a UK colleague. I was just thinking earlier today how I have trouble getting concerned about the âsummer slideâ when I know that even K-12 education is increasingly seen as an economicânot democraticâpriority.
hooray for faculty collegiality
My unit is currently hiring three new faculty members, which means that weâre right in the middle of nine(!) campus visits. Weâre all getting well practiced at talking about the strengths of our unit and why people might want to work here. One thing that weâve said over and over in meetings and interviews with candidates is that we work together well and get along with each other, too (we also acknowledge that this is not true 100% of the time, but that the exceptions prove the rule).
đ linkblog: UK looks to change role of faculty senate. Employees worry it will take away authority'
Need to read more on this before I fully understand whatâs being proposed and what the consequences will be. I struggle, however, with the argument that reducing the power of faculty is somehow improving faculty governance.
đ linkblog: UK president to legislature: Proposed DEI, tenure legislation is âdeeply concerningâ for Kentucky colleges'
I appreciate it when our president speaks up against legislation that would hurt the University of Kentucky.
đ linkblog: âStudent Should Have a Healthy-Looking BMIâ: How Universities Bend Over Backwards to Accommodate Food Delivery Robots'
I work on a campus with Starship robots, so this was a fascinating read.
frustration with institutional research analytics
Over the summer, I blogged about some concern that I had about a new research portal that my employer had just rolled out. Based on the gentle nudges to update our profiles weâve been receiving since the platformâs launch, Iâm guessing that faculty have not been as keen on the platform as the university is. One of those nudges came this week, and in the spirit of good faith cooperation, I spent some time going through the platform and updating my profile.
in praise of 'dad friends'
I have a âdad friendâ I see most afternoons as weâre waiting for our kiddos to get out of school. He walks his kid home every day, and I either walk home or bike home with kiddo (a lot of walking recently because weather and a broken bike have been getting in our way). So, we hang out where all the walking parents hang out and chat for a few minutes before heading home.
Two-Face, DezNat, and Lavina Fielding Andersonâmission compatriots
When I took a job at the University of Kentucky, a former professor (and boss) of mine at BYU told me to look up a specific French professor on campus, whom sheâd also taught (and supervised) some time earlier. I ran into him several months later at a stake conference (this was, obviously, when I was still attending Latter-day Saint meetings), and we bonded over what it was like to work under our boss.
tenure-track positions in library and information science, information communication technology, and instructional communication at UKSIS
Iâm happy to share that weâre hiring this year in all three of the areas in our multidisciplinary unit. Iâm including the official announcement below, and Iâd be happy to talk to anyone who has questions or interest in the positions!
The University of Kentuckyâs School of Information Science invites applications for three positions at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor. The anticipated start date is August 16, 2024.
Qualification and Responsibilities: Candidates are expected to hold an earned Ph.
đ linkblog: Leveling the technological playing field with Apple | UKNow'
Look, Iâm glad my university is aware of and responding to the digital divide, but Iâd appreciate a more critical treatment of what weâre doing. This sounds almost like ad copy for Apple, and itâs falling into a lot of tired edtech tropes about how technology must necessarily improve learning.
LIS 618 course mentioned in University of Kentucky news
I love hearing from former students about the great and interesting things that theyâre up toâand especially when something they learned in one of my classes helped them along the way. In my experience, former students who are up to great and interesting things would often be doing those things whether or not they had taken one of my classes, but I still appreciate feeling like my teaching contributed in some small way.
poursuivre un master en français ?
Tous les matins, lâUniversitĂ© du Kentucky envoie un courriel Ă tous ses employĂ©s avec des annonces et informations diverses. Ce matin, la fin du courriel affirme quâil est aujourdâhui le jour de la langue française (câest vrai en plus!) et nous rappelle que notre universitĂ© offre plein de cours en langue française et en Ă©tudes francophones.
Vu ma passion Ă©vidente pour tout ce qui est francophone, je savais dĂ©jĂ depuis longtemps quâils existaient dĂ©jĂ , ces cours.
đ linkblog: University of Kentucky COVID guidelines for fall 2022 semester | Lexington Herald Leader'
Itâs helpful to hear that the university is theoretically willing to bring back a mask mandate⊠but I donât know that I see it happening.
knowing when enough is enough
The past couple of days, Iâve been thinking about a memory from my junior year of college. It was the end of a semester, and on top of all of my own finals, I was teaching FREN 102 for the first time, so my end-of-semester was busier than it had been in previous years. I donât remember all of this busy time, but I do remember specific parts of taking my online FREN 362 (French Civilization II) final while sitting in the office shared by instructors from the Department of French and Italian and the Department of Scandinavian Studies.
đ linkblog: just read 'Twenty-first century swashbucklers: The rise of ethical media piracy | Opinion | kykernel.com'
Got some future Pirate Party supporters here at UK.
đ linkblog: just read '24 UK employees placed on leave for breaking COVID policy | Lexington Herald Leader'
Glad local reporters are looking into this; when the measures were announced, I was wondering what responses would be.