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Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Kent State professors cautious in the classroom following SB1 The law’s vague language and nature, they say, have led to many professors changing their teaching for fear of retribution. signalakron.org/kent-state-o...

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Kent State professors cautious in the classroom following SB1

Public university professors are struggling to adjust to Ohio’s Senate Bill 1, the Advance Ohio Higher Education Act.

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Let’s hear it for having to use Canvas! Teaching an online course this semester and it’s the only way to do it. Nothing like seeing this when I logged on especially since it’s finals week. Fall 26 only teaching in person will avoid Canvas and back to unhackable paper!

Shiny hunters announcing hacked Instructure’s Canvas LLM for a second time.

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Thoughtful article by Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social about college campuses, protest, and Kent State in the 1970s. I'm a KSU History professor. Bunch is right about what's going on in Ohio today and since 1970. Public universities cost a lot more to attend than in 1970. share.inquirer.com/bnFQwf

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Kent State and the silence of American campuses | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, a grim World Press Freedom Day for America

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Great news about this resource from the amazing Library of Congress! Great to use in the undergraduate history classroom. During the pandemic my intro history students searched Chronicling America to see what local newspapers said-or not-about the 1918 pandemic. They enjoyed finding the old stories.

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Teaching first half US History intro survey this semester and covering 1850 Fugitive Slave Act and efforts like this to rescue people who freed themselves. Asking students to imagine being alive then and considering what can you/could you/should you do? Tubman knew the answer.

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Dang, too true. So many boxes of tissues. . .

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Glad I had my history class read the Declaration closely last month especially grievances against the king. Still too relevant 1 month later! NO KING, NO MONARCH! 🗃️

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

It’s for pieces like this from Will Bunch that I subscribe to the Inquirer although Phillie is at least a 5 hour drive away. He reminds us of the moral issues at stake right now. You won’t find anything like it in the other “national” newspapers which I no longer subscribe to.

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Should be a national holiday! I celebrate the Confederacy’s defeat in the Civil War and remind anyone who wants to put those statues back up ( you know the ones I mean) that they are monuments to losers and traitors.

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Today’s double sided poster for Hands Off protests. Attended 2 today! One in our county seat and the other in my small Ohio city. Good turnout for both! People are angry about the cuts to the federal government, DOGE, and the Trump tariffs.

Poster with large text Hands Off. underneath terms like Medicaid, social security. Bottom line of text is Elon back to S. Africa.

Poster with text stating, No Kings, No Monarch, No Police State

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Two sided sign for today’s Tesla Takedown in the Cleveland area in Ohio. Looked like a good turnout. Very positive responses from passing traffic! #TeslaTakedown

Poster with blue background and white text stating all caps No king No monarch. In the middle is an image of the American flag.

Poster with blue background text in white states No Musk No Trump No Tesla

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

As a history professor at an Ohio public uni all I can say is that this is awful. Not surprised Rep legislature and governor just union busted faculty unions plus going to make it more difficult to teach history accurately. As the immortal Ohioan Christie Hynde once sang, “hey, ho, way to go Ohio!”

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

This 2016 conference was fantastic! I had the distinct pleasure of attending. Great material in here for teaching African American History.

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 27/03/2025

The AHA urges Ohioans to write to Governor DeWine and ask him to veto SB 1. This dangerous bill would undermine the integrity, quality, and reputation of public higher education in Ohio. Read our action alert for more information. 🗃️

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Action Alert: Ask Governor DeWine to Veto Ohio SB 1

Over the last three years, the American Historical Association and many state-level partners have opposed Ohio SB 1 and its predecessor SB 83, both of which proposed aggressive new mechanisms to overr...

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

If you’re an Ohioan please reach out to Gov. DeWine and ask him to veto SB1 when it reaches his desk. It’s an absurd bill that will decrease the quality/value of public higher ed in Ohio and it also hurts faculty unions. Why is Ohio on a race to the bottom?

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

This bill is going to make it extremely difficult to teach American history accurately in Ohio’s public universities. The elimination of DEI is only going to make Ohio’s public higher ed even whiter than it already is.

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Life in a gerrymandered state. Despite overwhelming opposition legislature is about to gut public higher ed. Bill is all about union busting and controlling faculty and student speech under the guise of “intellectual diversity.” Why would young people stay in Ohio? newrepublic.com/article/1924...

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Ohio Republicans Are Ready to Wreck the Economy Over DEI

Conservative lawmakers in the Buckeye State are pushing a bill that could create a devastating statewide brain drain.

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Ohio Republicans Are Ready to Wreck the Economy Over DEI

Conservative lawmakers in the Buckeye State are pushing a bill that could create a devastating statewide brain drain.

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Time to re-read this classic and important text about the organizing tradition in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement.

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Teaching first half USHistory survey. Thursday’s class devoted to close reading Articles 1-3 and students had to focus on specific powers of each branch. Started class by singing this a capella. 😂 The preamble and we the people matter! Time to remind our reps in Congress! youtu.be/0EfnNUt_nwY?...

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Schoolhouse Rock! "The Preamble" to the Constitution, music by Lynn Ahrens

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

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Schoolhouse Rock! "The Preamble" to the Constitution, music by Lynn Ahrens

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This is real talk. Take responsibility.

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Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Opinion Senate Bill 1 is a disaster Its thinly veiled efforts to promote political neutrality & “intellectual diversity” in public universities are nothing but a trojan horse to push their own political agenda & neuter discussions that scare them by Zach Donaldson www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

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Ohio GOP is playing 'silly games' with Senate Bill 1. They deserve silly prizes.| Opinion

My response to Sen. Jerry Cirino's and his colleagues' 76-page list of baseless grievances is this: make us.

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Teaching first half US History survey this semester. We’re up to the Revolution. Class did close reading of the Declaration of Independence last week. Inspired new bumper sticker. Current events too relevant 😳

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This administration is trying to resegregate the country and roll back all the gains of the Civil Rights Movement. Add it to the list of what you need to speak out against when you call your Senator or member of Congress. I don’t know about you but I refuse to go back to a segregated America.

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Concerned about the attacks on higher ed especially public? If you live in Ohio (or know someone who does) contact an Ohio state rep and tell them vote NO on SB1/HB6!

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I’m a professor of American and African American History at a public uni in Ohio and I am deeply troubled by this proposed bill in the Ohio State House. I can already imagine how it will make teaching history difficult. If you live in Ohio call your state rep and tell them to vote no! Save higher ed

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

An important story out of Northeast Ohio! Looking forward to seeing it and learning from it.

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Folks, if you’re in Ohio please call your state representatives in Columbus and ask them to oppose SB 1 which will hurt public higher ed in the state and our students. It’s also an anti-union bill too so if you care about labor, call your reps!

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

“We need mercy. We need compassion. We need empathy.”

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Here we go in Ohio again! Still attacking public higher education. This is what happens in a gerrymandered state.

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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I feel this exact way a lot. There’s only so much bandwidth!!

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

SCOTUS once ruled a black person could never be a citizen. They said "equal protection" allowed "separate but equal". They said a state couldn't limit bakers' work to 60 hours/week. They said Congress couldn't stop child labor. They upheld forced sterilization. But it's our constitution, not theirs

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

A astonishing life. Born in slavery in North Carolina. Yet graduating from St. Augustine's (an Episcopal HBCU) & Oberlin, then earning her PhD from the Sorbonne/University of Paris. Becoming a distinguished scholar, teacher, feminist, & activist in the Washington, DC. Living to the age of 105.

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

But we must guard against letting our disappointments curdle into cynicism, allowing an understandable need for some respite turn into a sullen mood of resignation. 7/11

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