A shorty today as it was spring break last week. Cross-posted on LinkedIn.
Raise your hand and comment if you've studied the discipline of hashtag#HigherEd. I'll start.
👋🏻 I have an M.Ed. in Higher Education and a CAGS (ABD) in Ed Leadership. I've studied #HigherEd's history including its history of student activism. #HigherEd finance, law, access, success, faculty affairs, and student development.
Sometimes I feel like #HigherEd forgets it's a discipline that folks have studied. #StudentActivism on campus, for example, is not new.
I'm a big proponent of correct care for individuals. Connecting folks with trauma to trauma informed counselors, for example. It feels this morning like #HigherEd needs some correct care and to connect to people who have long studied this discipline for history, context, and support.
"Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideas. The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas still waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves, along with the renewed courage to try them out." -Audre Lorde
What about you and your campus? Have you studied higher education? Does your campus lean on folks who have?
I've been studying higher ed closely since around 2002, when I started working for NITLE.
The history is most instructive. But so is developing an awareness of the sheer size and diversity of post-secondary edu.