The damage is familiar to college faculty across disciplines: writing as a form of Frankfurtian bullshit for which it’s more important to be superficially convincing than rigorous or factually correct; the study of literature as exercise in literary device-hunting, a trick-mirror image of literary formalism from 75 years ago. - The New Republic

"While lawmakers in the House advanced a similar bill last month, this effort is different for two reasons: It is attached to a sweeping foreign aid bill providing support for Ukraine and Israel. And it addresses concerns from some (Senators) by extending the deadline for TikTok to find a buyer." - NPR

The Biggs achieves its vision and goals within the standards and best practices as an American Alliance of Museums accredited institution, including championing the next phase of expansion.

Katie checks in with music director, supervisor, conductor, and pianist (Gutenberg!, The Who's Tommy, and KPOP on Broadway; Anne of Green Gables; Diary of a Wimpy Kid; Picnic at Hanging Rock), Amanda Morton.

The Director of Production will oversee the management of the creative teams, OSF Production staff, the design process, and build the implementation, run, and transfer of OSF projects. Reporting to the Artistic Director, this position will provide overall supervision to the Production department and associated stakeholders, including creative team members, scenery, stage operations, props, costumes, wardrobe and hair, lighting, video, and sound. The Director of Production will provide top-level management of all physical aspects of assigned live and digital projects, monitor design process checkpoints, and take action, as appropriate, to facilitate timely design deliverables and facilitate communication between the creative team and OSF stakeholders ensuring that everyone is working together towards the same goals. The Director of Production ideally will lead from a background of producing multiple plays at multiple venues in repertory, or similar large-scale production experience, to lead OSF to its pre-pandemic season of 9-10 fully produced shows...

The CEO will be a dynamic, high-energy leader with a minimum of 10 years of strategic leadership experience.

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION: This position supports the entire organization, interacting regularly with all supervisors as well as all employees and independent contractors. In addition to superb attention to detail and accuracy, excellent interpersonal and communication skills are critical to the success of this role. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer and working closely with the HR Business Partner, the Payroll/HR Administrator joins the organization at a pivotal moment as the Dance Group just completed the implementation of a new payroll software as part of a new co-employer, PEO relationship with Insperity. The successful candidate joins a community of kind and dedicated arts and administrative professionals who are propelled by Mark Morris's commitment to artistic excellence, access to the arts, and the impact that the arts have in connecting and engaging communities. RESPONSIBILITIES include but are not limited to: Payroll Processing Process bi-weekly payroll for approximately 200 employees (staff, dancers, production crew, teachers, and musicians) Prepare bi-weekly...

The AI-generated Digital Marilyn chatbot lets you interact “in real-time using advanced natural language processing, deep learning and GPT 3.5,” Soul Machines said in announcing the project Friday. - Variety