The last time I used WordPress for an assignment was in my old job at the University of Southern Mississippi where I taught a course I called “History in the Digital Age.” I decided to try to incorporate the use of WordPress for a simple digital exhibit into a more traditional course this semester, “Gender, Race, and Class in Modern Europe.” This majors-level course covered selected themes in European history through the perspective of marginalized peoples, primarily as it related to changing definitions of citizenship. I needed an assignment that incorporated independent research and writing, but I did not want to assign a standard paper. This was mostly just to vary things for my students, many of whom had already taken a course with me where a standard research paper was the assignment. I also think that basic knowledge of WordPress is a useful skill for everyone to have.
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Who needs to refrain from violence?
Just in awe at the tension evident in this Washington Post article on the recent move by police forces across the country against pro-Palestinian encampments on university campuses (the screenshot is from my iPad and the article may look different by now or on a different app):
Yes, campus protestors should be non-violent, but in this list it’s police, police, police, police, police, and counterprotestors actually causing it. That administrators can’t see that listening to the students, letting them protest, take the consequences (most of which would be academic), and then letting them leave for the summer isn’t the best call here is just baffling. I haven’t read one article where its the actual encampments causing the violence, whatever other policies they may be violating. Calling the police to brutalize your own students is not just counterproductive, but heinous. Shame on all of them.