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We're back for one final episode before the holiday break! US higher ed doesn't disappoint when it comes to mess, small joys, and everything in between. Listen in as Nic and James reflect on 2022 and their speculate about the future. Enjoy and catch you in the new year!

Further Reading:

• “‘It's a Mess’: U. of California Grades Are Due Soon, and Professors Are Struggling,” The Chronicle of Higher Education
• “Purdue U. Northwest Chancellor Apologizes for Speaking Made-Up 'Asian' Language During Commencement,” The Chronicle of Higher Education
• “How Gender Bias Worsened the Peer-Review Crisis,” The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)

What We're Reading:

• Natalie Lira, Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900–1950s
• C. Winter Han,  Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire
• Richard T. Rodríguez, A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad
• Tanya Holland, California Soul
• Alvin J. Henry, Black Queer Flesh: Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel
• Tiffany Jackson, White Smoke
• Fran Ross, Oreo
• Justina Ireland, Deathless Divide