In the Know – Issue 44

Faculty Research Shows Increase in Twitter Hate Speech

In the hours following Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the use of hate speech increased on the social media platform, according to research by Jin-A Choi, Bond Benton, Yi Luo, and Keith Green from the Joetta Di Bella and Fred C. Sautter III Center for Strategic Communication.

Evolving Veterans Health Care

Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Junius Gonzales, MD, MBA, is one of 22 experts from across the nation appointed to a committee that will advise the Veterans Administration on the care and treatment of disabled veterans.

NextGen Service Corps Welcomes First Scholars

NextGen Director Maziely Crisostomo welcomes the first cohort of 26 students preparing to change the world in a service corps program founded by President Koppell. Students want to tackle major issues like climate change, food insecurity and trust in institutions.

In the News

• Our merger with Bloomfield College continued to get media coverage from NorthJersey.com, Best Colleges, Higher Ed Dive, Montclair Local, and Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.
• The Center for Strategic Communication’s research showing increased hate speech on Twitter was picked up by several outlets including ABC News, MSN.com, two separate CBS News stories, USA Today, and Yahoo! News.
• Teresa Fiore (World Languages and Cultures) was featured in an article titled “Come un film di Clint Eastwood: il lungo racconto americano di Leonardo Sciascia” in the daily digital newspaper La Voce di New York about the celebration of writer Leonardo Sciascia’s birth centenary.
• Stephanie Silvera (Public Health) is quoted in this NorthJersey.com article about new COVID variants that are spreading in New Jersey. She is also quoted in this NJ.com article about the symptoms of RSV and this WNYC story about cold and flu season.
• Montclair is mentioned in this NJ.com article about universities that have been recognized nationally for encouraging students to vote.
• The Global Center on Human Trafficking is featured in this NorthJersey.com investigation about how human trafficking affects New Jersey communities.
• Jessica Henry (Justice Studies) is quoted in this Daily Kos article about a new VICE documentary that spotlights LaKeith Smith, a 15-year-old Black teen who was sentenced to 65 years in the death of 16-year-old A’donte Washington, who was killed by police. She also penned this opinion piece for The Conversation, which was syndicated by Yahoo!.
• The new Male Education and Graduation Alliance (MEGA) and its upcoming symposium were highlighted by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.

Reminders

• To continue using the Zoom client on your personally-owned devices, you must upgrade the software by Sunday, November 6.
• Catch the Cavani String Quartet appearing live at the Cali School of Music October 31 – November 6.
• See MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient Rhiannon Giddens at the Cali School of Music November 8-10.
• Don’t miss the regional debut of the Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças performance of Fúria at the Alexander Kasser Theater November 3-6.
• Blood donors are urgently needed right now. If you are healthy and well, consider making an appointment to donate during the American Red Cross Blood Drive, Thursday, November 10, 1-6 p.m., Student Center, Ballrooms B and C.
• Femmes du Feu Creations’ In the Fire, created and performed by Holly Treddenick, has its U.S. premier at the Alexander Kasser Theater November 10-13. For more information and to purchase tickets visit PEAK Performances.
• You can find the latest campus COVID-19 data, including case numbers, on the COVID-19 Dashboard.
• With Thanksgiving break and the winter closing approaching, Human Resources asks all employees to review the instructions for timekeeping.
• If you or a loved one is experiencing a mental health crisis or thinking about suicide, call or text 988, the new nationwide 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline for free, confidential support, 24/7.

Kudos

• To Benjamin Nienass (Political Science and Law), who was invited by the 9/11 Museum to highlight the stories of undocumented immigrants who died on 9/11 and to discuss the complex processes of proving their existence.
• To Jonathan Greenberg (English) for his talk, “Springtime for Ulysses” at the Summit Free Public Library about the influence of James Joyce on Mel Brooks’ film The Producers.
• To Karen Ramsden (Sprague Library) for being invited to participate in a panel along with Anne Rauh from Syracuse University discussing “Getting Institutional Aggregators Together: Integrating the Research Information Ecosystem to Support Open Access and Enhance Institutional Knowledge Transfer” at the 2022 Charleston Library Conference.
• To Christopher Parker (Classics and General Humanities) for his poem “Walk it Like a Refrigerator” winning Third Place in the Arkansas Scottish Festival Celtic Poetry Contest.
• To Patricia Virella (Educational Leadership) for having two studies accepted into the EdPrepLab resource library: “Leveraging the Crisis for Equity and Access in the Long Term” and “Leading After the Storm: New York City Principal’s Deployment of Equity-Oriented Leadership Post-Hurricane Maria.”
• To the Feliciano School of Business for seeing its Part-Time MBA program ranked No. 53 in the nation in the 2022-2023 “Best Part-Time MBA Programs” rankings.
• To the entire campus community for another incredible Homecoming celebration. See Homecoming 2022 photos here.

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