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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Anyone here tried NotebookLM for lit reviews for articles?

Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Looking to put together a roundtable on ethics and difficult conversations in political science education at APSA's Teaching and Learning conference in February - anyone interested in participating? #polisky #TeachLearnSky

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

That feeling when Mitch McConnell announces his retirement the day before your lecture on Congress and US foreign policy.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

That feeling when you're on deadline so you choose to reorganize all the books in your office.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

I preach on the dangers of this in every class I take - not the inclusive approach now forced on these clubs, but on the desire of too many Georgetown students to sell their souls for management consulting gigs. www.washingtonian.com/2024/02/13/g...

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Georgetown’s Elite Consulting Clubs Come Down to Earth

Wait, now ANYONE can join?

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Happy pitchers and catchers report! (and other holidays too ✝️💘)

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Calling scholars of norm entrepreneurship... sounds like a pretty clear case study in our own world.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Parents freak out about this because they want their kids to succeed. You have to show a success pathway that works here. Indeed, in that vein, it would be fascinating to explore charter schools as a space for working through this given both their freedom and relative success rates.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Last point - I've gone on too long - you need a coalition of credible colleges who would take alternatively graded students, and a coalition of employers - serious, good paying employers - who would take alternatively graded higher ed alums.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Someone like @joshbrake.com who's both from an Evangelical Christian tradition and also thinks about these things seriously I think would be a real value add; I'd look for partners like that so that this doesn't come across like just a group of hippies. Not that there's anything wrong with that!

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Finally I think it would be profoundly powerful to have some political and cultural diversity in the group looking at this. Too often, those who consider alternative grading as seen as "too progressive," and Evergreen State activates those profiles from years back on the Intellectual Dark Web

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Every time I engage on alternative grading, the answer is, "it isn't rigorous. It isn't scientific." Starting from a base that grades themselves are NO MORE RIGOROUS OR SCIENTIFIC is a fundamental need to level the playing field and shift the "Overton Window" on the conversation.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Then you need a pathway to overcome the "doubters and haters" - the ones who would say that grades are objective, that you have to have them for admissions, jobs, etc., and that without grades, everything is just "touchy feely."

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

I also think that what you need at the outset is not goodness about alternative grading structures, but a more powerful case for why the current grading construct is both just that, a social construct, and is actively detrimental to learning outcomes.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Count me in! I've been looking at this both in higher ed and elementary schools, and I think those of us who are potential practitioners need support to make the case.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Does anyone out there in polisky have a good glossary for terms people should know if they're studying IR? Asking on behalf of a student.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Great study, as I was talking about the failures of what should appropriately be Congressional dominance in my US foreign policy class a couple weeks ago and will return to it again soon www.aei.org/research-pro...

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Just a moment...

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

How do polisky professors think about talking about DEIA questions when it comes to policy models/theories/etc.? Particularly in classrooms that may be politically divided. sotlsky

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

I just read about the FAFSA delays in @insidehighered.bsky.social and @chronicle.com this AM. Thinking about this in the context of how (elite) universities are gatekeepers into the IR/foreign policy world and the need for real DEI at earlier ages, this is just bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

We all have to take that up. That we’re trying — that we’re trying. That’s all we can say.” She thought for a few seconds quietly, and then spoke again. “I think that’s what community is — coming together and saying: ‘I’m vulnerable, just like you are. I’m trying. I’m not going to leave you alone.’”

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

And this feels like it captures the right way to engage: "I think all of us have to be able to say to each other, and even to the people who are suffering: ‘This is difficult. This is difficult for me. I feel you. I’ll try to help but know that I may not be perfect...’

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

...Almost one in four Americans in college considered dropping out in the last year because of their mental health. Adjusting pedagogy to account for this scale of illness and, in some cases, disability, is the new frontier of postsecondary education.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

...More than half of American college students now report depression, anxiety or seriously considering suicide. This is a problem that reaches across geography, race, class, identity, institutional resources or prestige and academic ability...

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Here's the takeaway quote: It is clear by now that the mental-health crisis has changed academia forever: its structures, its culture and the function it is expected to perform in American society....

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

I'm not sure there's anything worse than Honor Council hearings.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

The best is happy news from former students. Got great news today on one of my "plankowners" (veterans of my first ever class) who got into an amazing grad school.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

I wonder how many undergrad students actually understand how hard it is to be an adjunct. It seems that the, I don't want to call it a Ponzi scheme or a con, but the belief that tenured faculty still care about teaching, still persists... www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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Advice | The Disposable, Indispensable Faculty Member

If teaching is so easy, why do so many tenured professors take such great pains to avoid it?

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

I also, borrowing from James Lang and others, do ungraded quizzes at the end of lecture to test retention, and those don’t work with provided slides.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

But that falls within the accommodation space, and there, I lean aggressively into supporting. I also record all classes so students can go back and review.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

I'm finding that I have to start pacing myself more and scaling back. One problem I had last semester (200-student class) is there was a cohort regularly asking questions, and I wanted to engage, but it forced me to speed up and I found that I wasn't necessarily engaging the others.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

I share them after, but as a rule, not before, because the students end up nose down or reading ahead in the slides instead of paying attention to the material. I've thought about pre-circulating an outline so that they at least have a general sense of what's coming. #sotlsky

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

There's a really good discussion of this in Evan Thomas' new book on Stimson, Spaatz, and the end of World War II Road to Surrender: Three Men and... by Thomas, Evan (amazon.com)

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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

That confederate monument in Arlington National Cemetery was the most offensive of anything I saw in the extensive review we did as commissioners of the Renaming Commission. Flat out celebration of slavery and armed rebellion against the U.S. government.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

And within an hour of posting the grades have already had questions from students about why their grades aren't higher. Even when I explained that we were over the 40 percent As and A-s level. Sigh.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

An UTTERLY FANTASTIC collection of books - let me know if you're looking for more, as I have my own parallel collection...

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

Entering grades for #GOVT1600 always makes me a bit sad. Sometimes I get perked up to see someone get a grade that's good and it makes me happy because I've seen their progress, but more often it feels like that's the only thing they'll take away from the class - a letter, not insights. #sotlsky

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

Just started Julian Gewirtz’s new book on China in the 80s and it reminds me that the CCP has always been a party focused on history and the writing thereof. Interesting to think about it through a constructivist lens.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

In the end did the Nationals win the Soto deal?

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/12/2023

Breaking News: Senator Tommy Tuberville, Republican of Alabama, announced that he would lift his blockade of nearly all the military promotions he had delayed for months in protest of a Pentagon policy ensuring abortion access for service members.

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Tuberville Says He Will Drop Military Promotion Blockade

Under pressure from senators in both parties, the Alabama Republican said he would allow more than 400 promotions to move forward, continuing to block only the most senior positions.

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Page Fortna @pagefortna.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Polisky: please help us spread the word about the Saltzman Institute’s postdoc, and tell your best students to apply! www.siwps.org/programs/cal...

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Call for Applications: Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University, Postdoctora...

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

BEYOND excited to be a part of this! More hype soon.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Nope, we met him at a Dicks Sporting Goods reopening.

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