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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oop, just remembered bluesky exists! Please buy my book, it contains ghost stories and an extensive collection of campus squirrel lore. www.hfsbooks.com/books/myths-...
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Myths, Mysteries, and the Macabre on American Campuses – HFS Books
The college campus is a place of tradition, which is fertile ground for the seeds of myth and folklore. Dorm-whispered stories and campus legends told over and over can help those new to the campus fo...
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.reddit.com/r/squirrels/...
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From the squirrels community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the squirrels community
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 20/05/2025
Apologies for yelling, but— SCOTUS COULDN’T DO ITS JOB BECAUSE TOO MANY JUSTICES HAVE BOOK DEALS WITH A PARTY IN A CASE
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Supreme Court Ethics: Ta-Nehisi Coates Case Won’t Be Heard Due To Recusals
The case involves the publisher behind many of the justices’ books.
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
As an expert on religious diversity in higher ed who has worked around Eboo for over a decade: he drags the whole field down with his watered down pluralism that neglects intersectionality, ignores power dynamics, and dismisses the work of "jerk" activists who don't subscribe to his preferred tone
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"We're trying not to be controversial" If the boat doesn't rock, you aren't having impact
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
He would have you shake hands with a Nazi - with wet blood on his hands - for the sake of being considerate
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I genuinely don't understand how Eboo Patel is a keynote speaker in 2025, advocating for bridge-building, civil discourse, and tone policing in *THIS* (*waves arms wildly*) The man is a preserved fossil of the Obama era
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I've heard a lot of dismissive and condescending discussion of student activists at NASPA, which I am immensely disappointed by. It feels out of touch, out of step, and off-mission for the field of student affairs.
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
New publication! This is a look at the immediate higher education institutional responses to October 7 and the subsequent war in Israel and Palestine. I hope there are some lessons that SSAOs and administrators can take away from this analysis www.linkedin.com/posts/gordon...
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Gordon Maples, Ph.D. on LinkedIn: Events of October 7 and Aftermath Led to US Campus Upheaval - Jenny L…
New publication that I'm pleased to have written with Jenny Small! This is a look at the immediate higher education institutional responses to October 7 and…
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Just a heads up. I can only speak to education but Title IV funds, which include the Pell Grant, are currently excluded from the "freeze." This is still incredibly catastrophic (and illegal? though lol what are laws?). Just don't take this list as the final word, it's an evolving situation.
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The ground doesn't feel very solid today
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Hmmm. There's no easy answer to set UNO's ship straight, but I feel like furloughing employees making 30k isn't going to ingratiate you much with a local working class community that you critically need to win back to survive as an institution. www.nola.com/news/educati...
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UNO to furlough hundreds of employees as it faces $10 million budget gap
"We still have got a big gap to go after this,” said Edwin Litolff, the university's CFO.
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
News from investigations of PCBs in NC State College of Ed building: "Notably, on the sixth floor, an office in Suite 608 was found to have PCB levels 460 times higher than EPA limits. Three individuals who worked in that office have since been diagnosed with cancer." www.wral.com/story/inside...
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Inside Poe Hall: The chemicals and where they were found
Last year, a group of NC State employees battling breast cancer urged the university to test Poe Hall for environmental hazards. The results showed dangerously high levels of toxic chemicals, promptin...
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I do love working with students, but there's definitely an undeniable academia nut at my core
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
My supervisor asked me to put together a lit review about something, and I was *ECSTATIC* Last week I had to dig into the school's archive for a course catalog from the 90s. Got my blood pumping!
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Trying to find the balance between being a student affairs practitioner and continuing my academic pursuits. I still have a few ongoing projects, but it is certainly taking an adjustment to balance my time. I have lots of respect for folks who found the sweet spot for publishing as a practitioner.
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Data-informed practice is not inherently a bad thing at all, but it does require some literacy/expertise in survey design, analysis, and a critical understanding of what data is, means, and potentially misses. Is there a BlueSky equivalent of vague-tweeting yet?
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
"Each percentage point increase is the population of Hammond. Superdomes worth of people in the state with new credentials. That has multigenerational impacts." This really helps illustrate the scale of the increases in degree attainment
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
"People aren't graduating with the wrong degrees - they just aren't graduating. We need students at every postsecondary credential level in all fields." Interesting comparison of the current LA degree attainment with the posted employment needs in the state. (Tristan Denley, LA BoR)
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
"It is imperative that students are placed in the correct math classes - math crushes dreams"
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
"If you don't tell students on Day 1 that they need a social network - people to give recommendation letters, internships, insider field knowledge - then it may not matter that they succeed with their grades, degrees, and other challenges"
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
About to hear from the LA higher ed commissioner Dr. Kim Hunter Reed at the Cowen Institute (Tulane U) convening on postsecondary access/success in New Orleans, "Life After High School." Excited to learn more about the LA and New Orleans education landscape, particularly in relation to higher ed.
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
In the past two months, I started a new job, adopted a *very* old one-eyed chihuahua, lost my last grandparent and a cat, and went on a fantastic jaunt to New Mexico. I would very much like to take a nap now but the country is exploding and the anxiety done cranked to 11 real quick
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
I've got some serious job hunting blues today. Anyone have tips on how to keep your head up?
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
Strategic thinking
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
Wow! I have seen some accounts of squirrel 'attacks' but hadn't heard one directly
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
I'm collecting stories about campus squirrels. It can be real things that happened, legends, reputations, etc. I've come across squirrel attacks, squirrel clubs, faculty using robots to scare them, students dressing them up in clothes, squirrel statues, squirrel poisonings...
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 12/04/2024
A recent study that Dr. Jenny Small and I conducted is covered in today's @insidehighered.bsky.social. We analyzed official statements from 100 universities released after the October 7 attacks and subsequent outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. #highered www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
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Analysis finds colleges fumbled Oct. 7 statements
New analysis on university statements following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and the retaliatory war that has since killed tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians found that multiple universiti...
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
A doc student at UMKC is doing a study on sense of belonging for Jewish students at 4-year colleges. The online survey takes about 20 minutes to complete, and is open until March 1. They are hoping to have 1,000 student-participants from campuses across the United States. Help spread the word!
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
Also, I've started doing workshops. If you're interested in a speaker/expert on religious/secular/spiritual diversity in education, I'm available. My diss on religious accommodations was featured in Inside Higher Ed, and I've spent years researching and working with students from marginalized RSSIs.
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
I have the fancy letters on my name and my Google Scholar numbers inch forward at a leisurely (but respectable, I think) pace. I've led research teams, been a role player, and generally like doing things that have a positive impact.
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
I have years of experience in education research, assessment, tutoring, student orgs, nonprofits, and have a smattering of communications, fundraising, and event planning skills. I've managed employees and volunteers, led projects, taught courses, and I think I'm a pretty cool dude.
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
My big year-end news is that my wife and I bought a house and have moved to New Orleans! I'm on the market for higher education (or more broadly education) roles in the area. I'm happy to commute, so if you know of opportunities in southeast Louisiana or southern Mississippi, please let me know!
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
If the recent testimony has you curious about what research says on campus antisemitism and what the steps are moving forward, Matt Mayhew has a great breakdown in Forbes. www.forbes.com/sites/matthe...
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Addressing Campus Antisemitism Is A Now Or Never Moment For DEI
To preserve DEI, colleges and universities need to do something rare for them: act with urgency.
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/due...
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Due to Falling Enrollments, We Will No Longer Offer Courses in Romulan at Starfleet Academy
Stardate 59963.2 Welcome to a new school year. In the coming days, a cohort of cadets will begin arriving on campus, and I look forward to continui...
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
Have I ever talked out loud to the text of an Ohio House Bill? Sure, who hasn't? But it wasn't required.
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
Part of why I prefer doing document-based research is that you don't have to email or talk to documents (unless you really want to?)
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
Next Monday, I'll be participating in a professional development workshop at NC State University for preservice/in-service teachers on how to understand and teach Muslim students. The event is open for anyone who would like to register: bit.ly/3QAmR4y ced.ncsu.edu/event/pd-593...
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Some context for this study of higher education airport advertisements that I've been dragging around for years: misantropey.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/flyi...
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Jeff Selingo's latest newsletter mentions my exploration of higher education airport advertisements. The way some airports have become absolutely flooded with college advertising is fascinating, and there are a lot of reasons why the setting has a unique appeal. www.linkedin.com/pulse/legiti...
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Legitimizing Work-Based Learning After High School
🛠️ Why apprenticeships should be an option like applying to college, college advertising in airports, and changes in youth participation rates in athletics. Here are excerpts from Next.
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
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How Can Colleges & Universities Attend to All Students' Worldviews/Beliefs & Practices, Including Pa...
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Up now at the NASPA Connexions blog: my thoughts on the state of student religious accommodations in higher education. #highered naspa.org/blog/the-sta...
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The State of Student Religious Accommodations in Higher Education
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Not to mention that the current climate of Islamophobia, antisemitism, etc. creates significant hardships for students from the marginalized religious backgrounds who are most likely to need these policies. We owe it to them to advocate for stronger, broader, and more efficient policies.
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Particularly as state laws have changed in recent years in states like Maryland, Ohio, Washington, and Utah, it is important for higher education professionals to understand the landscape, legislation, and research in the area of religious accommodations for students.
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
A big thanks to Anne Arundel Community College for hosting me for a faculty development workshop on student religious accommodations in higher education today! If anyone ever wants me to speak about my research to faculty or staff at their institution, I'm certainly happy to share.
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Every day either feels like I'm an imposter or a dumpster fire or both simultaneously. I guess that's just academia?
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
This was the result of my first formal foray into content analysis as a method, which has gotten to be my 'thing.' I was in a Qual methods class when COVID hit, and had to redesign a study to evade recruitment issues. Turns out I *love* evading people
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Dr. Gordon Maples @gordonmaples.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
New article out today! "Magick Circles in Ivy: A Phenomenological Content Analysis of Pagan College Student Organizations." I did a deep dive on the contents of foundational documents and external comms from Pagan student orgs using social theories. doi.org/10.1080/2194...
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