You’d think this plain gray & white label would bore me but SHUT YOUR DIRTY MOUTH!! I actually love it. Yes, it gets extra points for the nostalgia, but I also find the black font calming on the gray. The white bits, the two logos and the white print, look cool when the label rotates. AND I can’t resist “360-degree sound! The oldest recorded sound business, Columbia gets it’s name from where it was founded, the U.S. capital. #columbiarecords #templeuniversity #vinylcollection

Running early enough this morning for a short visit to my favorite spot on #templeUniversity’s main campus.

Airacast Episode 47
Always On Access

Imagine just going to a museum exhibit or cultural event and not having to ask for accommodations. Lisa Sonneborn, Director, Media Arts and Culture, Institute on Disabilities,Temple University, tells us about an upcoming “pop-up” event.

“File/Life: We Remember Stories from Pennhurst” 
April 20 - 23
Arch Street Meeting House, Philadelphia, PA is an interactive experience chronicling an important piece of disability history.

Follow the progress of this event at https://instagram.com/mac_iod.
Listen here:
https://pnc.st/s/airacast/7d7eed59/airacast-episode-47-always-on-access
Or in your podcast player of choice.
#VisualInterpreting #BlindMastodon #AiraAccessNetwork #mac_Iod #TempleUniversity #AccessibleMuseum #disabilityhistory

Lessons of the #TempleUniversity strike
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/07/oydy-a07.html

Deliriously happy to hear Temple University's president resigned. He made a huge bollocks of things in less than two years. The violence issue is not his fault, but the way the university handled the TA/GA strike was a disaster.

#TempleUniversity

https://6abc.com/jason-wingard-temple-university-president-resigns-news/13036381/

"Temple University’s faculty union is moving forward with a vote of no confidence next month against three officials, including the university president."

^ Good. The way the uni handled the TA/GA strike was atrocious--and if Wingard's vision for Temple means destroying it, I'm not on board. I landed on Temple U. for my undergrad for a reason; it wasn't my only choice. My professors were overall fantastic, as was my experience.

#TempleUniversity #USNews

https://whyy.org/articles/temple-faculty-union-authorizes-vote-no-confidence-university-leadership/?oref=cspa_firstread_nl

#TempleUniversity #strike ends with #poverty contract
https://boingboing.net/2023/03/15/st-vincent-and-the-roots-covers-the-portishead-trip-hop-classic-glory-box.html

Exciting news from the #TUGSAStrike! This still needs to be approved by vote of our union members - but unlike the last tentative agreement that #TempleUniversity forced on us, our #union negotiating team and union board are actually recommending this tentative agreement.

Thank you all for your support in getting us this far!

#Temple #Strike #Philly

https://nitter.net/TUGSA_6290/status/1634022768839888897#m

#TUGSAStrike #TempleUnionStrong #TempleUniversity #Temple #Union #Philly

https://nitter.net/AFTunion/status/1633842306368552963#m

#today is performance day. Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia and Commonwealth Youthchoirs. Some great music today at Temple Performing Arts Center. Come on out to one of our two performances at 2 or 5. #choir #templeuniversity #tpac

TLDR: We really could use any donation you can afford (even $5!) to our strike fund to help 250+ striking grad students (and their children) get their healthcare reinstated. #TempleUniversity out here trying to kill us for striking.

https://nitter.net/hpopal_brain/status/1631711045889695746#m

Donate here: https://tugsa.betterworld.org/campaigns/tugsa-strike-fund

#TUGSAStrike #TempleUnionMade #TempleUniversity #Temple #Union #Strike #Philly

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/temple-university-strike-safety-jason-wingard-20230302.html

As a reminder: #TempleUniversity wasn't required to cut off striking workers' health insurance and tuition remission - in fact it's the first university to EVER do so in the history of America 😲

#Temple decided that putting striking grad workers' lives (and the lives of their spouses and dependants) at real risk is acceptable retaliation for the temerity to ask for a living wage in 2023.

Our contract expired a full year before we went on strike. #AdminStalling

#TUGSAStrike #Philly

Now that we're in MONTH TWO of the #TUGSAStrike at #TempleUniversity , here's a quick update:

• My health insurance has been cut off AGAIN, and a bill for ~$1,000 has been applied to my account
• The medication I need to, ya know, live, costs ~$4,500/mo
• My tuition bill, usually $0 because of my Fellowship, sits at ~$14,000
• My pay for February was $0

But somehow #Temple expects me to come up with $19,500 by March 9th. That's the same amount they pay me in a YEAR.

https://tugsa.betterworld.org/campaigns/tugsa-strike-fund

I'm so disappointed in #templeuniversity--which is a shame. I've always been proud to be an Owl. I was a cheerleader in my freshman & sophomore years. I do think of myself as #TempleMade.

The new president seems like a jerk, & what the university is doing to TAs/RAs during the #TUGSAStrike flies in the face of what I've always considered the university's ideals to be.

#IStandWithTheUnion

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/jason-wingards-edtech-griftopia/

That time (today) when #TempleUniversity tried to toot its own horn by Tweeting about some "tech commercialization" research their faculty did that they think is important - but when they linked to the publication featuring the article about it, the front page features a story calling #Temple out about their god-awful response to the ongoing #TUGSAStrike 🤣

#TempleUnionMade #Strike #Union #Philly

https://twitter.com/TempleResearch/status/1629190154630856709

Delighted to get on the mailing list for the #TUGSAStrike -- thank you @Bender Whoever is behind those emails is doing a glorious job: not just information but uplift, solidarity, encouragement, voices of lots of folks affected by the situation, all the media coverage, and great support from the larger academic community. Again I say, shame on #TempleUniversity. (I'm a #PennGAS alum and I stand with TUGSA.) Sorry I live too far away to stand on the line with you.

In this offer, #TempleUniversity offered just enough of a salary increase so that their graduate workers would no longer be eligible for SNAP (food stamps). It looks like #Temple's only goal with this offer was to keep that egg off their face, not actually supporting their workers with a living wage.

#TUGSAStrike #TempleUnionMade #Temple #Philly

#TempleUniversity family: If you can, donate to support the family of officer Christopher Fitzgerald, who was slain on the job last night near #Temple's campus. Fundraiser organised and run by the Temple University Police Association (Union): #OfficialTUPA

https://twitter.com/officialTUPA/status/1627383292549890049

The #TUGSAStrike at #TempleUniversity isn't over until membership votes on the proposed deal, no matter what The Philadelphia Inquirer says.

Don't believe newspaper articles that are simply republished press releases written by #Temple admin. Notice there's no comment from the Union included in the published "article".

#TempleUnionStrong #LivingWage #Philly

https://twitter.com/RaeReadsTheory/status/1626764549855535105