FOI is crucial in holding executive to account in #universities

Information on redundancies, senior management pay, finances & grievance statistics should be public accessible

Very wrong for valid FOI requests to be ruled 'vexatious' or 'troublesome'

Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco

#academia

I want to be very clear. I submit FOIs of SMT correspondence b/c such communications ARE newsworthy, esp. as UoA's public perspective on issues like strikes or RAAC are often unclear and opaque.

To suggest I submit FOIs to cause annoyance or disruption is simply comical.

Ooh, a new league table for British universities! Who will win?

So Minouche Shafik forgot about shared governance at US universities. Maybe because it hasn't applied in any meaningful way in the UK for decades. She's probably wistful for the REF, TEF and performance management, thinking that'd tighten those tenured radicals.

What is even the point of being senior management if you have to account for yourself to the plebs?

All I’m saying is academics talk a lot about “citing contemporary sources” for a bunch of people using 15 year old professional headshots

I visited and poured out a libation at the site of Sam Smith lynching last Saturday.

Smith was murdered at this site on December 14, 1924. That year, a lynching occurred roughly every 22 days.

Found this painting in a charity shop, I think it's a Constable.

Where we are: Scottish Government have managed to unite Scotland's foremost advocate of land reform and the actual chair of Scottish Land & Estates.

Daniel Dennett (28th March 1942 - 19th April 2024)

RIP

Dennett on how to criticise wisely

Rare Passing Of The Sun To Be Visible Over Ireland Today

Engels agus an tuiseal ginideach

Gardaí to probe ‘possible fraud’ following University of Limerick’s controversial €12.5m housing deal independent.ie/irish-news/gar…

Universities: 'we are thrilled you were able to join our workshop. To be reimbursed, please email our reimbursements team 100-600 times over the next two years'

Looking for somewhere in the North East to do a two month work placement, preferably something relevant to my work - history based, social justice/equality based, in culture/the arts - essentially somewhere important and rewarding I can give two months free labour to. Any ideas?!

Recently I wrote an article for the Dictionary of Welsh Biography about Youhannah El Karey, Palestinian Baptist Missionary who preached in Wales and became the son-in-law of Moses Roper. Check it out!

biography.wales/article/s14-EL…

Exec committee of Columbia Univ Senate—the body that the President should consult pursuant to Section 444—did “not approve the presence of NYPD on our campus at this time,” Shafik 'consulted' but did not gain agreement & then invited in NYPD riot squad.
columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/1…

If you think your company has a 'sick note culture', you might just have a terrible management culture instead.

The vast majority of workplace dysfunction I have seen as an employment lawyer stemmed from incompetent or abusive leadership - not lazy employees.

Or, let me say this in slightly clearer tones: never, ever, think that any institutional administration is your friend

Zero tolerance for workplace bullying. Good luck to Unite UCU.