Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Wesleyan Ends Legacy Admissions in Response to Supreme Court Killing Affirmative Action https://jezebel.com/wesleyan-ends-legacy-admissions-in-response-to-supreme-1850655119 #Jezebel #affirmativeactionintheunitedstates #raceandeducationintheunitedstates #studentsforfairadmissionsvharvard #discriminationintheunitedstates #universityandcollegeadmissions #ivanespinozamadrigal #wesleyanuniversity #affirmativeaction #legacypreferences #educationpolicy

Very excited to have Marco Arnaudo here at Wesleyan discussing "Games that Tell Stories in the Italian Tradition" and visiting our Educational Game Design class as we talk about board games!

The talk is open to the public!
When: Monday, February 27 at 4:30 pm
Where: Romance Languages and Literatures building (300 High Street), in the Common Room / Lounge

Come by if you're in Middletown!

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#talk #boardgames #tabletopgames #wesleyanuniversity #italian

“In America today, academic freedom once again needs its defenders—people who know that learning requires freedom from intimidation and #censorship while also demanding openness and attentiveness. The combination of qualities that constitute academic freedom may seem idealistic to some, but for us at Wesleyan it is the practical idealism at the heart of liberal #education.” —#WesleyanUniversity’s President Michael S. Roth #HigherEd #academia http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2023/02/16/statement-on-academic-freedom-2/

“At the limits of #science, where it asks these big questions like ‘where do we come from? Where are we ultimately going?,’ science begins to tumble into #religion, #mythology and theology. Science and religion end up being closer together than they realize.” — #WesleyanUniversity Professor of Religion Mary-Jane Rubenstein https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2023/01/11/new-book-explores-corporate-space-race/ #space #JeffBezos #ElonMusk

#WesleyanUniversity Assistant Professor of Chemistry Alison O’Neil’s most recent #research has drawn a direct parallel between a pesticide commonly used from the late 1940s through the late 1970s and instances of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). “Our goal is to prove, once and for all, that certain kinds of pesticides cause #ALS in human beings, and then we can outlaw these #pesticides.” #science #highered https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2023/01/19/research-shows-pesticide-could-be-connected-to-als/

“#SCOTUS is widely expected to overturn or roll back #AffirmativeAction in #college admissions…such a decision could not only lead to changes in who is admitted and who is not, but also jeopardize long-established strategies that colleges have used to build diverse classes…#WesleyanUniversity said they hope increased outreach to underserved communities would offset some of the impact of a #SupremeCourt ruling. But they may be limited in what they can do.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/15/us/affirmative-action-admissions-scotus.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #highered

#WesleyanUniversity's Joseph Slaughter on the origin of his course God and #Guns: the History of Faith and Firearms in America: "As a #religion professor, I’ve come to know many students from other countries who identify as Christian...they were puzzled at some of the things Americans often bundled into their faith...One issue in particular sparked a question from a South Asian Christian student: Why did #American evangelicals seem to have such an affinity for firearms?" https://theconversation.com/god-and-guns-often-go-together-in-us-history-this-course-examines-why-194614

Watching President #Zelenskyy speak with President #Biden and #Congress last night was a moment for all Americans to recognize an ally in need of our help. The impact of #Ukraine’s fight for independence reaches beyond borders, which I’m proud that we can focus on at #WesleyanUniversity: https://youtu.be/p9VcLYN0NLY #highered #activism

Happy #WinterSolstice from #WesleyanUniversity

"Remind yourself that #socialmedia reflects how people want to appear to others—it’s not an indication of how they are actually doing! Give yourself permission to step away from your phone." —#WesleyanUniversity's Dr. Jennifer D’Andrea, Director of Counseling and Psychological Services #mentalhealth https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2022/12/20/support-your-mental-health-advice-for-the-holidays/

@simsjames #WesleyanUniversity question: Is #JeanineBasinger's Coursera course about "Marriage and the Movies" ever going to come back? Or Scott Higgins on film sound and color history? I enjoyed both the year that I retired from teaching other subjects.
I've been wondering if they ran into film-rights problems or just time and money issues making them difficult to update to current production quality.

As the migration continues, thought it worth re-posting my Mastodon intro. I’m a proud Air Force #veteran and former #arts and #culture #journalist, currently working in #StrategicCommunications in #HigherEd (#WesleyanUniversity). Also, still obsessed with/posting about #theatre / #theater, #Broadway, #Hollywood, #books, #museums and #science (I’m a #Trekkie by way of my father’s work on the series). Also, keep an eye out for #Connecticut and #NYC photos and musings. 🤓

At my #WesleyanUniversity office holiday party, we were each asked to read something out loud, be it poem, selection from a book, etc. I chose to read The New York Times #theatre critic Frank Rich's review of the ill-fated #Broadway flop "Moose Murders." Suffice it to say, it gave my colleagues a unique look at my personality.

@multiverseofbadness Ditto... DEC10, except for the hacking ;-) ... That first #WesleyanUniversity mainframe, where I learned just enough TOPS10, BASIC, LISP & 1022 to hang out in the lab and play Adventure & Zork after midnight. But #usenet was better because it had ... people!

“#Movies are an accumulation of mundane tasks that support improbable fables. Closing [#WesleyanUniversity’s #JeanineBasinger and #SamWasson’s “Hollywood: The Oral History”], one wonders if American #entertainment has reached its end as a collection of myths and legends suitable to a secular society…The glow and the gleam of #Hollywood are fading. The collected testimony of witnesses is inevitably a kind of group elegy for something loved and gone.” —#AdamGopnik https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/05/what-hollywoods-ultimate-oral-history-reveals

#WesleyanUniversity’s Professor of #Feminist, #Gender, and #Sexuality Studies #VictoriaPittsTaylor’s 2016 book “The Brain’s Body: #Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics” has inspired a group of painters to offer their own #artistic impressions of her complex ideas in a new gallery #exhibit. https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2022/11/22/research-inspires-new-gallery-exhibit/ #art #academia #artist #painting

#Connecticut—and #WesleyanUniversity—played an important part in the fight for #ReproductiveRights in the 1970s. A panel of participants, professors, and #Slate journalists met to discuss the history, beginning with the 1965 #SupremeCourt case, Griswold v Connecticut, which struck down a state ban on #contraception, allowing for an opportunity to challenge an #abortion ban in Women v Connecticut. Over 800 plaintiffs, many affiliated with Wesleyan, signed on to the suit. https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2022/11/29/connecticuts-role-in-quest-for-reproductive-rights-explored/

How did #turkey become synonymous with #Thanksgiving? #WesleyanUniversity asst. prof. #ElanAbrell, who teaches Eating Others: Histories and Cultures of Animal Edibility, said “there was an intentional effort to get people to start thinking of turkey as #American #cuisine…to distinguish a developing culture from #England.” As #AlexanderHamilton would proclaim: “No citizen of the US shall refrain from turkey on #ThanksgivingDay.” https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2022/11/22/how-thanksgiving-became-turkey-day-according-to-animal-studies-professor-elan-abrell/

@KimberlyEAtkins Welcome! The thing appears to be on.
I'm amused that the ittybitty writing-hand emoji next to the (still unverified?) "Boston Globe Opinion" item in your profile looks at least a little bit like a unicorn.
Check out some of the how-to posts about profiles, #introduction pages, using hashtags to make yourself findable...
And thanks for mentioning WBUR; it reminds me to search the #fediverse for (1980s #WesleyanUniversity #WESU) Doug Berman, and some 1999-2004 Boston friends.

“The recent intensification of the scapegoating of the #LBGTQ community, like the rise of #racist, #AntiSemitic, and anti-refugee rhetoric, puts all these communities—it puts all of us—at greater risk when weapons of extraordinary lethality are so easily available.” #WesleyanUniversity President #MichaelRoth https://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2022/11/20/hate-words-violence/ #guncontrol #massshootings #highered