Mark Phillipson

"My impulse to make things good, and to make good things better, is almost ungovernable. I suppose it’s lucky I found a wholesome outlet for it." Gottlieb in @parisreview theparisreview.org/interviews/176…

Want to tailor your CTL's programs to your audience's needs? Take a cue from marketing. In this TIA feature, @ColumbiaCTL tests the potential of the STP marketing model to refine their #eddev offerings. @CVHHChen, @IAlthouse, @clayfox, Caitlin DeClercq buff.ly/42FekBg

@pbkauf @mrenoch "Change one letter": I didn't come up with the rule but I feel like insisting on it. Adding letters or not changing any feels like cheating. I mean, otherwise, ...Jaws... Toothsie... it's all too blurry and easy. But by the book: Drainspotting

@mrenoch @clayfox The Bridges of Madison County (0 changes, baby!)

Change one letter and make a big new movie into a film about dental hygiene. I'll go first: TOP GUM

@pbkauf @mrenoch Nightmare Alloy

@clayfox @mrenoch Toothsie?

@mrenoch @pbkauf Fangs of New York

@mrenoch @pbkauf The Phantom Tolltooth

New podcast: @CUHistoryDept grad student Aleksandra Jakubczak reflects on her journey to become a more informed and confident teacher, and on how @CTLgrads' Teaching Development Program changed her conception of teaching and its place in her career. ctl.columbia.edu/podcast

@elotroalex @Yale @ocsalevj Cheers Alex!!

Loved being in conversation with Ami Yoon, Thom Preston, and @Catheross02 about how and why to center collaboration and community building in our teaching practices.

“In this neighborhood, crowded with mentally unwell people, & with drug dealers & panhandlers, & with tired office workers & sex workers & fruit venders & psychics & police officers—all these people, nearly to a one, say something tender to a child...” newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…

Please enjoy these ducks changing their minds.

@MelissAnnWright @chandani35 @amanda_jungels Totally agree! I think we had a similar scheduling pile-up last year as well. Here's hoping we're luckier at #POD21.

@chandani35 @amanda_jungels If only our sessions weren't scheduled at the same time! Would have loved to have seen this dream team back in action.

Powerful call at #POD20: Shift academic practices and values away from 'Cogito, ergo sum,' and towards Ubuntu youtube.com/watch?v=44xbZ8…

“They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves...” Baldwin nybooks.com/articles/1971/…

.@stynnelahl on libraries, Enlightenment values, Dewey, Narcan, precarity, and the savior/martyr mentality - the-rambling.com/2020/10/23/iss…

I couldn't agree more!

This voting line in Philly!!!!

Nevada Latinos coming through in style, y’all! VOTE VOTE VOTE! 🤠 🐴

BROOKLYN always shows up. Love this marching band keeping energy levels high as voters wait outside Barclays Center. Early voting runs from 10/24 thru 11/1 across NYC. Questions? Call 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683). #MakeItCount #VoteEarly #VoteEarlyny twitter.com/jenist/status/…