2025
A Call for Moderate Voices on DEI
Current legislation targeting DEI upholds the most radical media-amplified voices as representative of the whole, even though these voices have been largely unsuccessful on many public campuses. Our university is not Columbia or Harvard, yet it seems as if legislators are attempting to punish our institution for the sins of its private counterparts. But when there are no loud moderate voices, how can we expect the public to see anything other than the extremes?
I am so pumped that Inside Higher Ed picked up my op-ed about the current attack on DEI programs in Higher Ed.
Rethinking the Todo List
I live and die by my todo list. I started keeping a list using Omnifocus in grad school and wound my way around every other major platform like 2do, Todoist, and Things over the last thirteen years. My list is on screen all day, and I constantly capture new tasks on my phone on the go. I even gave a Getting Things Done presentation at our college conference a few years ago and proudly displayed the number of completed tasks in my presentation, as if the number of tasks completed is the best way to measure success. Until recently, Todoist was my tool of choice, and it added a gamification element, which encouraged me to do more more more to achieve Karma points. This bean counting mentality worked so well for me as I progressed in my career, and I credit my rigid adherence to these systems as a factor in my success. But, as my role evolved, I noticed the drive to check boxes made it more difficult to make meaningful progress on projects I truly cared to complete.