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Megan Heffernan

@thecompass.bsky.social
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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The graphic that the Book Cellar created for my conversation about my forthcoming novel Man Overboard! with @amrangowani.com this coming Tuesday 7/7 at 6:30 pm is a delight. See you there! RSVP at the link!
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
For DePaul, money is tight. But tight is relative: The university managed to come up with enough scratch to start construction this year on a $42 million basketball and athletics center on its Lincoln Park campus. chicago.suntimes.com/architecture...
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Cash-strapped DePaul closes the curtain on Downtown’s historic Reskin Theatre
The landmarked 1,400-seat Beaux-Arts playhouse was designed by Benjamin H. Marshall, one of Chicago's preeminent architects.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
At the same moment the university is walking away from the museum, plans are moving ahead for a state-of-the-art athletic facility, for which the university received more than $10 million in donations . . . The letter calls the facility “rewards to the few,” as opposed to a museum meant for all.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The board goes on to complain of a “seemingly never-ending whirlwind of both uncertainty and poor decision-making by the University administration” and accuses the administration of leaving a “jewel” of the campus “battered and discarded” despite their “massive effort” to keep the museum open.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
“We the members of the Advisory Board for the DePaul University Art Museum (DPAM) want to share directly with you our significant anger, frustration, and deep sadness regarding your recent egregious decision to permanently close the art museum"
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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DePaul Art Museum Advisory Board Calls on University to Save the Institution, Expressing ‘Anger, Frustration, and Deep Sadness’ Over Abrupt Closure
A scathing letter from the DePaul Art Museum advisory board calls on DePaul University to reverse its decision to close the museum.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
If you’re as incensed as everyone at DePaul is about the closing of the university art museum, consider signing this letter. Thanks for the support! openletter.earth/letter-oppos...
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Letter Opposing the Closing of DPAM
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
it's like saying, sure, let's decimate a vibrant hub of student learning and community.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
i am so so sorry about what happened to you. I'm on the faculty advisory committee, and we were kept in the dark about closure plans. meanwhile, i visited the library yesterday and this was gracing the door:
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
and selling off the collection.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Closure shows “there’s not a priority for the arts or the humanities” at DePaul, especially when the university is investing & developing other divisions...City Council approved DePaul’s plans for a $60 million basketball & athletics practice facility in December blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/26/d...
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DePaul Art Museum Closing In June: 'It's A Huge Loss'
The museum's final exhibits will open March 5. The decision to close was made "to ensure long-term financial sustainability for our university," DePaul's president announced Thursday.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
so, my employer is defunding libraries while building a $60 million gym to be used only by athletes . . . teams that have accepted bribes to lose games chicago.suntimes.com/college-spor...
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Former DePaul players and ex-Bull Antonio Blakeney charged in scheme to rig games
In the 70-page indictment, authorities say fixers recruited the college basketball players with "bribe payments" usually ranging from $10,000 to $30,000 per game.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
A whole host of colleges & universities are using Trump as cover for shock doctrine cuts to faculty & staff, while diverting funds to public-private partnerships & SaaS contracts they hope will float rocky investing by trustees & endowment managers. Don't regurgitate their barely cogent rationales.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
smart mamma!
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
wait now i am curious: why were you not raised with santa? are there xians who don't revere him? (this feels both V naive and like a genuine revelation to me!)
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
done without consulting faculty
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
"universities are being infiltrated by a commercial industry that exploits students+faculty as data mines frenzy w/o consulting their faculty, collecting empirical data on whether gen AI is pedagogically useful, or pausing to inquire about the long-term impact" www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
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Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Faculty were not consulted about these courses of action.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Kind of. Also depaul faulty here. The reference is to the library on the campus in downtown Chicago. The library on the Lincoln park campus, half an hour away, is not facing closure but still deep cuts to staff. Many students and faculty are wholly based downtown in the loop.
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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
😮 A university without a library ceases to be a university. Full stop. I’m flabbergasted that a “determination” about a library’s future — besides FUND IT AND STAFF IT — needs to be made by an institute of higher learning.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Kind of. Also depaul faulty here. The reference is to the library on the campus in downtown Chicago. The library on the Lincoln park campus, half an hour away, is not facing closure but still deep cuts to staff. Many students and faculty are wholly based downtown in the loop.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
thanks for sharing this!
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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Now available online! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h... 🌿📚💚🪲
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
nadignewspapers.com/city-orders-... "the storefront was previously home to a lice clinic."
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City orders closing of unlicensed massage parlor in Jefferson Park - Nadig Newspapers - Northwest Side Local Newspapers
by BRIAN NADIG The city Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection has ordered the closing of an allegedly unlicensed spa at
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
indubitably.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
my boyfriend used to live in that building! last year there was a bust to shut down an unlicensed "massage parlor" that was also without signage, had a red light in the window, and ushered its customers out the back door.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
so very sorry for your loss. be well.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
go for broke and hit 19. only 5 left to knock out tomorrow before breakfast.
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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
paperback coming early 2026! ✨
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
HEROES chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Demonstrators block entrance at Broadview ICE facility: 'They know Chicago doesn’t want ICE in our city'
Protesters staged a sit-in and stopped vehicles trying to come in and out of the facility Friday morning. Earlier police ordered tents they had set up to be removed.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
y'all are heroes! thank you so much!
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Working on ecology in premodernity? Come share your stuff with us! Proposals for 2025-2026 Premodern Studies Seminar at the Newberry Library are due July 7! newberry.slideroom.com?utm_source=C...
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
i almost sent you this!
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
excellent!
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
dude on the right is sinister AF. def my kill
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
in order from right to left? i disagree.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
oh this is good! my course packet is locked down, alas, but next time i'll add this. this time, i have gunn's "the missing" in a unit on elegies
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
BRILLIANT. whitman in general, really
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
crash writing a new syllabus for intro to poetry (starting monday!): any fav poems for thinking about communities, social groups, collectives?
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
. . . and dirt bag medievalisms: mic drop
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
🔥🔥🔥 Grateful to you and all the contributors for joining this convo!
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
my employer does this while addressing me as "ms." not "dr." HARD NOPE.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
good day to break my wordle streak www.nycclc.org/news/2024-11...
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New York Times Tech Guild on ULP Strike
The Times Tech Guild—the union that powers the technology behind The New York Times—has walked off the job in a ULP strike. The work stoppage began at 12:01am Monday despite multiple rounds of intense...
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
today's teaching is /convent of pleasure/--thanks, past megan
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
pics or it didn't happen
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
we are twins in everything in life, including this. literally stalling on 3 papers right now
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
u of c is moving towards NTT faculty strike and seeking solidarity, especially from alums. please consider signing and sharing! act.seiu.org/a/facultyfor...
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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Administrators at Harvard are developing “unprecedented” modes for disciplining faculty.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
it's also the first weekend of winter quarter which is disastrous timing
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
who's going to MLA in january? should i go?? not giving a paper, but it's in new orleans & the warmth would be nice . . .
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