Lesson #40: Deep Breathing Exercises Are Key

We thank you for your patience during our short hiatus! We’re back and trying to make sense of all the things. Nic and James discuss the events of the recent weeks, including the overnight changes to Biden’s student loan forgiveness terms (do better!), the unsurprising “prestige hierarchy” of faculty life, and how to handle the mid-semester slump. We add a new segment to the mix. Listen now! Further Reading: “In a Reversal, the Education Dept. is Excluding Many from Student Loan Relief,” NPR “The Biden Administration is Changing Who Qualifies for Student Loan Cancellation,” NPR “The Prestige Hierarchy: Five Universities Trained One Of Every Eight Tenure-Track Faculty At Doctoral Universities,” Forbes “Just 5 Universities Produce One-Eighth of the Nation’s Tenure-Track Professors,” The Chronicle of Higher Education “Why Faculty of Color Are Leaving Academe,” The Chronicle of Higher Education “Why I’d Gladly Exchange My Tenure for a Union,” Inside Higher Ed What We're Reading: Richard T. Rodríguez, A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom