Ira Bogotch

@sfaircloth12 I wish you the best!

This week marks 1 year since resigning from my academic leadership role. 8 months later I resigned from my tenured full professor appointment. I truly believe that these decisions, as heart wrenching as they were, saved my life. I'm healthy & excited about what the future holds!

@Ruth13L Happy for you and your family.

Authors of Florida’s standards on Black History: William Allen, LaFrance “Joe” Clarke Jr., Allison Elledge, Kathleen Ems, Roberto Fernandez III, Madonna Higgs, Helen Maffett, Jessica Morey, Kay Pape, Frances Presley Rice, Valencia Robinson, Constance Scott and Laura Wynn.

Reprint: letter. “The intersection of politics and academia is … both fragile and dangerous. … it appears that political influence may have pressured the State University System Board of Governors to halt the search process for the next president of Florida Atlantic University.

@lopezgr88 @BelmaS @BelmasOffice I’m asking the the name FLORIDA be added to the injustices you listed and that Ed Leadership recognize how state politics can become a force to spread totalitarian regimes. Your voice would help professors in Florida deal with anti-woke laws.

Yes, it’s important for Ed Leadership researchers to meet @BELMAS; but tell me which theories or methods work to resist DeSantis in Florida. Waiting to read replies.

@DeniseMifsud4 @DrKhalidarr @TXSTCOE @BelmasOffice @UCEA @EducationBATH Glad the two of you could meet in person. It’s my turn next!

At #BELMASConference2023 with @DrKhalidarr from @TXSTCOE @BelmasOffice @UCEA @EducationBATH

A REPRINT: In the latest back and forth between the state university system and Florida Atlantic University, the head of the FAU Board of Trustees, Brad Levine, has insisted that its presidential search over the last several months “did not run afoul” of state and federal law.

FAU in Seattle at UCEA

@Florida_NOW meeting the weekend in Orlando this weekend. Trying to find sanity in FlaSantis.

Nevada teachers lobbying their state's government. What can Florida teachers do about our state's government's treatment of teachers? Is wait-and-see the best option for now?

Congratulations to Daniel Reyes-Guerra (FAU COE Researcher of the Year) and Eleanor Su-Keene (FAU COE Outstanding Dissertation Award).

The Florida school principal who was fired because a lesson on Michelangelo’s David did not include a sending permission slips to parents was invited to Florence, Italy to see the sculpture in person. One parent had objected to the lesson, calling the masterpiece pornography.

Attending now a faculty-student teach-in on the FAU campus. We are hearing from the bravest of the brave. Hopefully their courage will create spaces for those have yet to speak out.

Florida Atlantic University’s School Leadership Program hosted it 25th Annual AERA get-together in Chicago. These dinners were influential in my deciding to come to FAU in 2000. They are still the highlight of being a professor and bringing together faculty and doctoral students

FAU’s other Final Four will be presenting at an AERA Roundtable tomorrow at 9ish. The team is led by Maysaa Barakat and Daniel Reyes-Guerra. Bob and I are hanger-oners. What exactly is the role or roles of program coordinators in an international partnership?

On my way to AERA, to celebrate academic freedom, in Chicago. Flying away from FL policies of hate: anti-Gay, anti-trans youth, anti-Disney, anti-diversity, anti-inclusion, anti-local control, anti-higher education, anti-liberal arts and humanities, anti-our histories…

Congratulations to Dr. Desmond Blackburn, new President of Facing History and Ourselves. FAU alumni Hall of Fame. Thank you for allowing me to be part of your amazing journey.

THANK YOU @FAUMBB for pushing Governor DeSantis and the FL Legislature out from our minds for at least tonight. Go Owls in the Final Four.

Have to check with Florida legislators on whether it is politically correct to call FAU’s March Madness a Cinderella story.