tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-378396582026-04-14T03:29:40.128-04:00Citizen of Somewhere Elsechiefly about <strike>Hawthorne</strike> <strike>governance</strike> <strike>academic</strike> public higher ed mattersThe Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.comBlogger406125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-54809608007099949272024-07-30T12:18:00.002-04:002024-07-30T12:18:15.952-04:00Trying to Make "White-Blindness" a Thing (Again)I originally wrote this piece on "white-blindness" back in the mid-1990s when I was a grad student—and it shows—but it's strangely relevant once again! (Both in answer to those down on all those "[insert affinity group here] for Harris" fundraising zooms and as advice for those organizing any future ones.)The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-80075668661724241262024-02-14T18:40:00.008-05:002024-02-14T18:40:45.823-05:00My Valentine's Day Message to Senators ...can be found here! Topics covered:Spring 2024 Senate Calendar and Program Deactivation Review Process Timeline UpdateAcademic Program Health and Financial Sustainability and StewardshipState Budget AdvocacyPublic Forums and Third Party Events PolicyStudent Affairs Divisional Review Committee UpdateTrue Blue Transformation UpdateThe Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-20644279068328758472024-02-14T11:29:00.002-05:002024-02-14T17:12:27.641-05:00New SUNY Economic Impact Study from the Rockefeller Institute of Government Is Out!!I've been waiting for this for a long time. It's Happy Valen-data Day over here in this little corner of Blogaramaville!The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-71564102636210589802024-02-08T20:59:00.000-05:002024-02-08T20:59:04.044-05:00CitizenSE News Roundup Quick-hit post tonight:The Fiscal Policy Institute has a released a new report by Andrew Perry entitled SUNY: An Economic Engine of New York (February 2024) focusing on direct and indirect jobs created and wages and wage shares of those jobs, by location of each SUNY campus.New York State United Teachers President Melinda Person, United University Professions President Fred Kowal,The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-1428274958156388092024-02-03T16:08:00.015-05:002024-02-04T00:16:22.786-05:00On the Work of Public Higher Education: Putting JoAnn Niebel and John B. King, Jr., in DialogueNow that the semester's started, I've been a lot less active here than I was over the winter break. That's partly because I needed to be most active here in the weeks and days before Governor Hochul's State of the State Address and release of the State Fiscal Year 2025 Executive Budget. But it's mostly because I've been doing the work that comes with the first two weeks of The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-81220717955092835332024-01-29T21:06:00.001-05:002024-01-29T21:06:02.799-05:00Syllabi Alert!It's been a while since I shared my syllabi here, so without further ado, here are my syllabi since my sabbatical in AY 2021-2022:American Identities (Fall 2023)Critical Reading (Spring 2024)Fantasy Fiction (Spring 2024)Introduction to Literary Studies (Fall 2022 and Spring 2023)Major Authors: Hawthorne after Morrison (Fall 2023)Science Fiction (Fall 2022)Survey of American Literature (The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-92031607026860730342024-01-29T13:36:00.001-05:002024-01-29T13:36:05.208-05:00My Mid-Academic Year Plenary AddressHere's the link to my kickoff talk for the Spring 2024 semester (delayed about nine days by the double blizzard). What you won't find in it is my reference to The Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want"—the last song to play on my commute—which I used at the beginning and end of the talk as you'd expect (and which set off a blizzard of Stones references by later speakers)!The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-70933927603008034072024-01-27T20:00:00.002-05:002024-01-29T17:33:12.404-05:00My Most-Viewed Tweet Evah ...and loving it!The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-49874296233821864752024-01-24T09:23:00.002-05:002024-01-24T09:23:39.079-05:00For Those Just Tuning InThis post is a response to a colleague and friend in another state university system who asked for "a paragraph or two about your struggles that I could crib for my union email blast," as well as a way of organizing my thoughts before I meet with the Buffalo State College Senate's leadership team on the SUNY Buffalo State campus this afternoon. It's also going to be a reflection on the waysThe Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-28542335323685303272024-01-17T13:55:00.013-05:002024-01-29T20:49:55.944-05:00New York State Fiscal Year 2025 Executive Budget: SUNY ScorecardHere's my first pass at Governor Hochul's Executive Budget proposal for next fiscal year. It focuses on what in SUNY System Administration's budget request shows up in the Executive Budget for SUNY. SUNY System's analysis just dropped, so to maintain the independence of my analysis, I'm going to post this before I read theirs....The lines in bold are from SUNY System Administration's&The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-10242826423321683142024-01-15T16:04:00.004-05:002024-01-21T06:23:08.355-05:00On Increasing SUNY Revenues, Part 5Unless the Bills Blizzard delays the release of Governor Hochul's State Fiscal Year 2025 Executive Budget proposal, we'll know tomorrow where she stands on the issues I've been laying out in the first four parts of this series. I want to shift gears here, today, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, before the Bills game, to put together a reading list foregrounding others who I would want state The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-59570371032415242802024-01-13T15:52:00.003-05:002024-01-18T14:31:54.953-05:00My First January Message to the Fredonia University SenateRead it here! Happy to answer questions about it in the comments!The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-51975853047611295592024-01-10T20:35:00.006-05:002024-01-10T20:35:56.014-05:00Mr. Constructivist Goes to Albany......really just as a chauffeur/butler for the Full Metal Archivist, my amazing wife, who's doing an all-day professional development thing in NYS's capitol city this Friday, but I will be in Albany and fairly free from Thursday night to Friday afternoon if anyone wants any unsolicited advice from yours truly, or has any suggestions about what I should be blogging and Xing/tweeting about in the The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-65562010927747854842024-01-10T08:03:00.005-05:002024-01-10T09:04:36.294-05:00State of the State Post-GameI've got to admit that I found the State of the State Address almost totally demoralizing for almost the entire afternoon and evening yesterday—so much so that I needed time to even start reading the SOTS Book (that's a today project). It's not that anything that Governor Hochul announced regarding higher ed was so bad; on the contrary, the AI consortium initiative is potentially huge,The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-36123777135566314342024-01-09T12:42:00.005-05:002024-01-09T12:56:38.489-05:00State of the State Pre-GameI had a really good talk this morning with Jan Dorman, Director of the Standing Committee on Higher Education in the New York State Senate, arranged by the office of committee chair and Senator Toby Ann Stavisky, on the joint Senate-Assembly Higher Ed committees' #TurnOnTheTAP campaign and legislative package that was launched yesterday. Soon after, I wrote the following The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-36481117265122396162024-01-08T07:50:00.011-05:002024-01-08T22:55:13.607-05:00On Increasing SUNY Revenues, Part 4It's the day before Governor Kathy Hochul's 2024 State of the State Address and I have not yet given up hope that she will make the right call and put forward a proposal for pricing and funding SUNY and CUNY like the public goods they are that responds substantively both to the point made by United University Professions that her predecessors underfunded SUNY to the tune of about $500M per year The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-78469326897567998652024-01-05T14:30:00.095-05:002024-01-10T08:45:34.211-05:00On Increasing SUNY Revenues, Part 3So far in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, I've attempted to be a generous, charitable close reader of the SUNY Report on Long-Term Enrollment and Financial Sustainability. I've pointed out how rhetorically and politically effective it is likely to be and praised its customization toward its primary audience: Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. In both The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-65345800951538029102024-01-03T14:59:00.006-05:002024-01-11T00:51:53.078-05:00On Increasing SUNY Revenues, Part 2Picking up where I left off last night, I could go on for many more pages about what a rhetorically effective political document the SUNY Report on Long-Term Enrollment and Financial Sustainability is. In addition to what I already noted, I would point to the report's yoking large-scale SUNY research endeavors to state economic development goals, positioning SUNY to leapfrog others in thoseThe Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-39418024399100314982024-01-02T12:00:00.009-05:002024-01-05T11:21:14.873-05:00On Increasing SUNY RevenuesQuick note that I'm working on a response to Kathleen Moore's Albany Times-Union story on SUNY's revenue issues that will take more than an x-twitter thread to develop, as it represents the media's first pass at digesting a SUNY report on Long-Term Enrollment and Financial Sustainability that was submitted to Governor Hochul and the state legislature last Friday (and that I am seeing for the The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-51941258490505876092023-12-21T22:18:00.012-05:002023-12-21T22:18:00.245-05:00On SUNY Fredonia's Program Deactivation Review Process (PDRP): A TeaserPosting a link to my latest message to Senators as chair of the Fredonia University Senate.After I get a good night's sleep and lead a meeting of the SUNY University Faculty Senate Governance Committee late morning tomorrow, I may have the energy in the afternoon to put Senate Executive Committee's approach into a broader perspective, as I see it personally—not only in my official role as The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-55842298709783273722023-12-18T07:23:00.005-05:002023-12-18T07:23:56.617-05:00Clearing My ThroatAll right, I'm back.Why am I back?Long story short, I need a way to express myself as an individual in ways that are clearly distinguishable from my official role as Chairperson of the Fredonia University Senate, and particularly from the messages I send to the campus and post on the website as Senate Chairperson.Bottom line: I need a space to explore ideas, rather than issue carefully The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-28475810663872973892023-12-18T06:21:00.006-05:002023-12-18T06:29:59.586-05:00Hello, Hello...Is This Thing On? Might need to fire up the old blog again! Let's see if this works....The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-70234901000239718652017-03-07T20:38:00.001-05:002017-03-07T20:39:42.834-05:00We're on the Move!I'm happy to join Sandra Lewis, Idalia Torres, Dan Smith, and Anne Fearman in running for leadership positions on the Fredonia UUP Chapter's Executive Board from 2017 to 2019. For more on our slate, please see our letter to Fredonia UUP members and our web site, which includes links to our candidate statements.
Here's an excerpt from our letter:
Now more than ever, we must organize The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-42468720517080971502016-07-08T10:18:00.000-04:002016-07-08T10:18:01.180-04:00Is It Just Me, or is Google Weird When it Comes to Guccifer 2.0?How is it possible that a few posts scattered here at CitzenSE and on some of my other blogs last night led to their being more easily findable on google than anything Studio Dongo has posted on Guccifer 2.0 over the last several weeks? Anyone who understands google search algorithms better than me, please feel free to explain!
I get that my blogs are The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-54364894924092479502016-07-07T23:00:00.002-04:002016-07-07T23:04:28.874-04:00This Is A (Guccifer 2.0) Test of the Google Search SystemQuick questions to my remaining readers:
are you aware of the Guccifer 2.0 story?
have you been trying to follow it?
have you been able to find any good sources on it through google searches?
Just to be clear, I had not been aware of or following the story until one of my best friends started blogging about it in mid-June. As he's been writing about his experiences going down that The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com0