Dominique Baker
Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
dominiquebaker.com
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
- I love mathematician Dr. William Claytor. From Norfolk, VA (757 all day), he was DENIED a spot at IAS because Princeton was doing a racism and wouldn't let a Black man join. When IAS came back begging in '39, he said "naw I'm good." Give me his book! Or the book on IAS as both haven and gatekeeper.
- Ok I see you Omaha
- I need scholars in the disciplines to get one friend from outside their discipline to review their grant proposal before they submit it to an interdisciplinary funder. Y'all think lots of phrases are general knowledge when they most certainly are not.
- This kicker is the whole ball game. This is why we cannot rely solely on talking about the ROI of universities to explain its value. Why we have to actually talk about the ways higher ed can be an active force for cultural uplift. That integration is one of the raisons d'être of US higher ed.
- My new piece is up, though behind a paywall. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
- I would let this cat scratch me and I wouldn't even complain
- For comparison, they're sad that white men are only 56% of the tenured faculty in 2023 after being 64% in 2013
- The percentage of white men in the US pop is ~30%. Thus, as always, the complaint is that white men are not sufficiently overrepresented (as they have been throughout US history). www.chronicle.com/article/facu...
- If you missed the ASHE first 100 days webinar moderated by @jackiepedota.bsky.social with me, @robertkelchen.com, Diane Cheng, and Kyle Southern, here's the recording. I talked about authoritarians but also told some jokes! youtu.be/qTxj9r3n_eE?...
- I have barely been able to follow this story because I have to be a functional adult instead of a Black lady in a rage.
- When I review colleague's work I have to prep them that I provide feedback the moment a question or idea pops up (even if a question gets answered later). I do that because it's often the closest experience an author can have for how a reader is processing their prose, real time.
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