Kevin R. McClure
Associate Professor of Higher Ed | Co-Director of the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges | Columnist at The Chronicle of Higher Education (Working Better) | Author of The Caring University (JHUP, 2025)
- Happy to supply this slightly embarrassing factoid for @adriennelu.bsky.social's recent article on faculty pay stagnation. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
- Reposted by Kevin R. McClureThis 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-...
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- Rufo said the goal was to send higher ed into a recession. And due to a variety of factors, it's happening everywhere. www.chronicle.com/article/noth...
- I saw a man and his small child at the grocery store yesterday. The cart had a bouquet of flowers and a rotisserie chicken. I wanted to politely tell him he might need to up his game.
- Reposted by Kevin R. McClureI'm looking to profile one student who has been impacted by their school rolling back DEI policies. It can be a student of color whose school curriculum has changed or someone concerned about increased racial hostility at their school, etc. If that's you or someone you know please DM me!
- But for real. "MYTH: There weren’t autistic people in the past. FACT: Who do you think categorized all the bugs?" theonion.com/autism-myth-...
- Went to the store TWICE today and forgot salt on both occasions. Wife: Did you write it on your list? Me: No, I put it in my brain, which is like a list except the exact opposite.
- Reposted by Kevin R. McClureI have the privilege of being friends with one of the SEIU organizers who spent weeks working around the clock on this. I cannot properly express the respect and admiration I have for them and every other labor organizer giving literally all of themselves to fight these horrors.
- Nothing like watching professors, the most educated people on earth, struggle every single year to figure out how to hood their students at graduation. "Do I just throw it like a lasso?!"
- Celebrating the end of the week the only way I know how…absolutely crushing a fresh mango.
- My funny graduation story is that for my master’s ceremony, I didn’t want to pay for the cap and gown. I didn’t realize they were tailored to your specific height, so I just borrowed my 5-ft-and-change roommate’s (I’m 6’1). So, yeah, my robe looked more like a tennis dress.
- I’m not too big to admit that there’s a training I have to do periodically for my institutional travel card, and I routinely fail the quiz.
- Let’s go! Loved Destiny of the Republic and am here for James Garfield.
- Learned last night that we’re getting a Netflix miniseries on the Garfield assassination with Michael Shannon as Garfield and Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, and how are we not all talking about this? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...
- What I told our graduating master's students and their families tonight, and I meant every word: "You all made a choice to be scholars and educators. That's not an small thing these days. Don't forget this is honorable work, and we are celebrating your choice."
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- "If I am approved." This is a PR battle.
- Oh my gahhhhhh 🤦♂️ www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
- Oh my gahhhhhh 🤦♂️ www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
- Stop doing cool, creative stuff with subscription-based technology because otherwise the REST of us have to start paying for it.
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- Doing a lot of virtual talks and meetings regularly demonstrates that the technology set up of many institutions leaves quite a bit to be desired. Distance-enabled large group spaces is just hard to come by.
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- “The dean’s office shared a memo outlining a policy requiring faculty members to get approval from their department heads to do any writing, talks, social media posting or other public expressions of our scholarship if it is affiliated with West Point.”
- Now that all approvals are in and letters are signed, I can share that starting July 1, I'll be promoted to Professor of Higher Education and Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership at UNCW. Excited to begin a new challenge in community with an outstanding group of colleagues.
- Trying to get one last essay done and out this semester. I have no idea if my editor will like it, but writing it has been good for me!
- Reposted by Kevin R. McClureOn Friday, April 25th, I became the first* African American woman to earn tenure & promotion in the Univ. of Vermont’s College of Education & Social Services history. Naturally, I went home to reflect on my educational past & to think about my future. *(sadly, yes, in 2025) 1/2?
- God, I’m tired of everyone in the world looking at higher ed workers and saying we just need to better communicate the value of what we do and why people should care about it. That our problem is simply a communications problem. It’s not.
- Took the spring off from any travel or speaking. Slowly starting to dust off the slides and prepare for summer and fall events. Should be fun but exhausting!
- Reposted by Kevin R. McClureI don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing
- Bizarrely framed article about the people (all women) who ‘refuse to use AI’. And a #philosophy professor who says “The moment to opt out of #AI has already passed”. Oh well. That’s that then. 🤷♂️ #AIEthics www.bbc.com/news/article...
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- Anytime I read “financial discipline” in reference to higher ed, I know it’s code for “layoffs.”
