Corey Moss-Pech
@CoreyPech
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Assistant Professor @FSUSociology. Formerly @UMSociology and @osusoc. Labor/Ed/Inequality. Book, Major Trade-Offs, with @UChicagoPress #LGM
Joined February 2019
Got this in the mail yesterday—the newest addition to my bookshelf. Thanks @UChicagoPress! Can't wait for the book to come out next month! Link to pre-order 👇
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"The lesson of our century so far is clear. After a decade book-ended by a once-in-a-generation financial crisis and a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, flagships proved unusually disciplined at solving for both access and excellence." https://t.co/wti5OiWbjE
chronicle.com
Battered by decades of disruption, they are now more frugal and more resilient than elite privates.
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I beat this drum a lot, but a big problem with public higher ed discourse is that it tends to focus on Red States. The multiple crises affecting higher education don't neatly break down along Blue/Red lines. The whole field is facing these challenges.
The cuts at The New School are the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation” !!!!!!! And yet the President TURNED DOWN a $4 million donation to fund PhDs https://t.co/4NfAqSjHhB
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Since Google is trying again with smart glasses, here's an article by Gary Shteyngart on Google Glass. I used to require it for my intro students when we covered technology. Unfortunately, it's now too old to be in rotation. It's a great article though! https://t.co/nEJBJXfPXR
newyorker.com
Confessions of a Google Glass Explorer.
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NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!! 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Florida State wins its 5th NCAA title with a 1-0 win over #1 Stanford!!!!
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funny how often academics in the humanities are portrayed as frivolous ivory tower dandies who write poetry by moonlight and have 6 months off a year when all those people are working like 50 hours a week and the academics with the actual cushy jobs are economists
I get paid to give 90 hours of lecture a year and spend the rest of my time doing whatever I want as long as it publishes. Academia is not a job, it’s a privilege.
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Regardless of what the committee does today, just please remember that no injustice will ever compare to what they did to the 2023 Florida State Seminoles. A part of the sport died 2 years ago. Blow up the CFP committee and build something new. https://t.co/xx5wBiULoB
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Such a shame to see this happening @TheNewSchool, especially to Sociology. When I got my MA there in 2013, it was such an intellectually vibrant place, and without that experience, there is a 0% chance I'd be a professor today.
New School University is shutting down programs, PhD admissions have been paused, and faculty are now receiving emails to resign. Of course, this isn't the first crisis, BUT the administration's response hasn't always been like today's revamped austerity "shock therapy.” 👇🏽
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Cut the country in half, around the 39th parallel. Let's call it the Meyer-Saban line. Every school above the line is in the Big 10, and every school below it is in the SEC. Then the winner of the Big 10 plays the winner of the SEC in the national title game. Problem solved.
Here is how you fix College Football. 1. Move all teams into ten-team conferences. There will be eight conferences. 2. Every team plays EVERYONE within their conference and then three games against other conferences. 3. The top two teams in each conference play in a
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When physicians introduce themselves as "Dr. So-and-So," I always think "ooh, that's formal." Then I remember they are a different kind of doctor than I usually interact with. I also think this debate is ridiculous, and people can call themselves Dr. if they want. You do you.
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Wow. This is from *James Carville.* It really is starting to feel like economic populists have won the debate. Our haters have become our waiters -- time for us to all build a table of success for the Democratic Party.
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This semester I have a no laptop policy in my graduate theory seminar, and I have to say it’s been a complete and total success. Highly recommend.
It's time to remove laptops from classrooms. 24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images. The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
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We should call it The Hillary Cycle: -Reject Progressive economic proposals -Propose social justice reform instead -Social justice reform alienates the very voters it was supposed to attract -Blame Progressives for social justice reform backlash https://t.co/6k7YaHEkRT
Worth noting that the Sierra Club is the most Establishment of environmental organizations and was apparently more focused on social justice issues than even the younger Sunrise Movement was https://t.co/rkxMz79XDW
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I've seen some folks express surprise over how skeptical SCOTUS appears to be of Trump's tariff power. But it's important to keep in mind this isn't about checking presidential power. The Roberts court has always been radically pro-business.
Roberts and Barrett seem skeptical of Trump’s case on tariffs at SCOTUS arguments “Who pays the tariffs? If a tariff is imposed on automobiles, who pays them?” Roberts asks Trump lawyer
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My article in @RHE_ASHE is now live! I show that highly "employable" majors pay off for graduates even in the absence of technical skill use. As a result, I advance a conceptual framework that views majors as unique sites of cultural value. Check it out! https://t.co/LBQhvrX3Uq
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The backlash against wonkery and the reduction of politics to data isn't "anti-intellectual." It is the recovery of intellectualism against the wave of shallow, gamified casino-empiricism that has drowned our public discourse.
Weird round of mildly anti-intellectual backlash lately against center-left data nerd types from people who are less data-y and less centrist (all of which is totally fine) but are also objectively speaking huge dorks themselves.
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Great article on how the AI bubble is the latest part of a "broader effort to snatch away decision-making power over teaching, learning, and research from subject matter and pedagogy experts and give it to donors and administrators." https://t.co/qulODWiWAH
defector.com
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into...
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FSU is hiring 2 APs in spatial data science! Open to any social science discipline, including sociology. This makes at least 5 faculty jobs at FSU this year open to Soc PhDs. Consider applying if you do spatial research! (ad says Geography, but it's open) https://t.co/8yiXpFB9B9
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I increasingly believe that rote memorization of major geographic features like US states, major rivers, countries, etc. needs to return in full force. Should be treated like memorizing times tables. Basic building blocks for understanding the country and the world.
One of my biggest blackpills as a social studies teacher has been discovering kids don't learn any geography. I'm at a relatively nice school today teaching 8th graders how to label a map of the US with state names. These kids are in algebra and they don't know what Ohio is
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I know it shouldn’t, but it still astounds me that Dem elites could see this unprecedented grassroots energy and the incredible comms talent of this candidate and conclude that their top priority had to be killing it. Zero genuine interest in wrestling back power from the GOP.
Could not believe how many people came out to see @grahamformaine in Lewiston…and then I went down to the overflow room. 🤯 750 people and counting!
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