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Celebrating a donation for an investment in another state lol

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Jennifer Doyle @fromaleftwing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This book is about the administration of harassment complaints on campuses, our ideas about campus safety/security, sexual vulnerability and the institution. It's out of print so, with the publisher's permission, I am sharing a PDF. drive.google.com/file/d/1S5vE...

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Doyle Campus Sex Campus Security.pdf

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Big endorsement for @anothereducation.bsky.social! Download now to learn about radical ways of knowing and learning that you probably didn't already know about!

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Merle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New thread on various aspects of university budgets at top 50 research universities. It is all available online via HERD (ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...). There is a time lag to collected data, but such as it is. One budget fact per day until I get bored.

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Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey 2024 | NCSES | NSF

Higher Education Research and Development Survey

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This piece by Rod Ferguson is the strongest indictment of Vanderbilt and Yale's reports on the state of academia. It's a dense piece, and takes close reading. criticalnoise.org/tragedy-at-v...

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Tragedy at Vanderbilt – History of the Present

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

just presented on this. the chart is from Brown’s budget report. They are $100 million short on research expenditures annually. The second is Chris Newfield reminding us that this has long been part of the budgeting picture at all research universities.

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

William Claxton, "Coltrane at the Guggenheim," 1960

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Finished the website for our fall Public Study class on alternative schools, radical pedagogy, and learning communities! Need to fix one little technical glitch in the chronological session listing and upload my intro lesson with theoretical framing :) crc.metro.org/course/publi...

Screenshot of the class webpage, featuring a header with an illustration of cubist kids painting, followed by a chronological list of our class sessions

A grid of images -- one for each class sessions; each image features a lined-paper background and a public domain image capturing the topic or vibe of the day

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

4 yrs ago I taught a grad studio abt reimagining the academy. This fall I’m tchg a similar class — abt study more generally — for librarians, archivists, ldrs of alt schools, etc. It’s 🤗 to think about these ideas *in practice* redesigningacademy.wordsinspace.net/spring2022/ crc.metro.org/apply/

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Redesigning the Academy 2022 – New School Graduate Workshop with Shannon Mattern

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Kaneesha Parsard @kaneeshaparsard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hi everyone! My first book Desiring Freedom is coming out this November on the University of Chicago Press. Pre-order here (bit.ly/4j51OqD) and check out blurbs from David Scott and Faith Smith below:

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Desiring Freedom

A groundbreaking account of concepts of freedom in West Indian literature and visual culture.Desiring Freedom examines post-emancipation West Indian literature and visual culture to ask how they reima...

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Agencies of public control “do not simply respond to ‘moral panics’ They form part of the circle out of which ‘moral panics’ develop. It is part of the paradox that they also, advertently and inadvertently, amplify the deviancy they seem so absolutely committed to controlling.”

Opinion
A report exposed a crisis in academia. The response was telling.
Universities risk losing public trust when political dogma outweighs truth.
Today at 6:00 a.m. ET
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(Illustration by Michelle Kondrich/The Washington Post; iStock)
Opinion by Daniel Diermeier
Daniel Diermeier is the chancellor of Vanderbilt University.

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Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In @dissentmag.bsky.social, I look at years of patient organizing around labor and housing that reshaped politics in Providence, feeding into the campaigns that lifted @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social and council allies like Miguel Youngs to victory last week. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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The Socialist Wave Hits Rhode Island - Dissent Magazine

The sweep by democratic socialist David Morales and other progressive primary candidates in Providence is a testament to years of organizing and coalition-building in the Ocean State.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'The need to outsource services following redundancy programmes may be increasing universities’ costs rather than lowering them, as well as impacting staff productivity, a report warns.'

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Restructuring ‘too often adding cost rather than removing it’

Universities are ‘underestimating’ the challenges caused by outsourcing services amid major professional services staff redundancies, report warns

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Last four characters you saved on your phone are your D&D party

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

making some slides for my conversation about Policing the Crisis with the Political Economy and Algorithms group later this week

a bearded Stuart Hall grins at the reconfiguration of the argument that mugging leads to policing and instead that one must start from the 'historical and structural forces that condition a vigorous reaction to 'mugging'

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just finished my edits on an essay for Protean that makes the case that MAGA’s higher ed policy is built around this.

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be out later this year--just in time to stuff it in your stockings--but you can preorder now with the code UCPNEW for 30% off. @uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Relatability

An engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.

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Justice Department Secures Agreement with Mount Sinai to End Pediatric "Gender-Affirming Care"
Another result of the Department's nationwide investigation into hospitals performing sex-rejecting procedures on minors

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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🚨New article 🚨 Jesse Goldstein, Ben Haskett, Caroline May, and I mobilize "critical university studies" to investigate how "sustainability" is used as a pseudo-activity. we argue higher ed depoliticizes and partitions environmental and climate action. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Critical University Sustainability Studies: Evaluating <fc>STARS</fc> Reporting as Depoliticized Environmental Pseudo‐Activity

This article places university sustainability within broader literatures of critical and abolitionist university studies to understand how it depoliticizes environmental action and dispels more radic...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 31/08/2026

Across the country, students are preparing to return to school. But no new class will be welcomed at Hampshire College. @hannahgais.bsky.social reports on the fall of that grand pedagogical experiment—and the wider crisis facing higher education.

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Class Dismissed | Hannah Gais

Private liberal arts schools were never going to kickstart the revolution. But the closure of Hampshire College further narrows the political imaginary.

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NYC: this winter we're reimagining the Jefferson School--a radical labor school--alongside an exhibit about McCarthyism at NYU. We are looking for one-off study groups on study (including what we need to do it), academic unionism, & speculative futures for learning. Short application due 9/1!

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Call for Study Groups

This fall and winter (November-March), we are excited to host a reimagining of the Jefferson School of Social Science—a radical labor school—at the Espacio de Culturas gallery at NYU in New York City,...

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lisa lowe @driftinghouse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

yale american studies is searching for a colleague (open rank) in 19th or 20th c. u.s. cultural history & cultural studies #job #americanstudies #culturalstudies apply.interfolio.com/188467

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Niche tweeting but can’t get this out of my mind

Isb dude Pendergast wearing imperial garb with a Diermeier cut

Daniel Diermeier in a suit looking a lot like the evil Star Wars guy in the other photo

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Want to be a College President for a day? Here’s a handy simulation of 3 shocks to your institution and a challenge: balance the budget. A Kobayashi Maru, but for higher education. celadon-moxie-b022a4.netlify.app

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The Budget Office: A University Finance Simulation

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

forms.gle

Call for Study Groups

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"A tenured citizen professor, an international graduate worker, a dining-hall worker, an undocumented student, and a researcher dependent on federal funding confront this crisis from very different positions. A collective defense of higher education has to begin from these differences..."

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/08/2026

speaking of academic freedom and free inquiry, a couple years back I reviewed a great book by Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth that cut through the noise prospect.org/2022/04/01/c...

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The Cure for Hate Speech Is Not More Speech - The American Prospect

A new book considers how colleges and universities should deal with committed racists.

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Excited to read this essay about the the Iraqi poet Nazik al-Malaʾikah and her encounter with the New Criticism via the Indiana School of Letters, R.P. Blackmur, and the Rockefeller Foundation by Emily Drumsta. dx.doi.org/10.5325/comp...

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Protean Magazine @proteanmag.com · 12/08/2026

Andy Hines on how profit incentive, prestige-seeking, and student repression intersect at elite universities. Despite institutions’ public commitments to free expression, willingness to quash protests can in fact be a selling point. www.proteanmag.com/2024/04/29/discipline-and-protest/

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

SNF Agora at JHU, whose new building is a literal glass house, partners with outside stone throwers American Enterprise Institute to seek head of stone-throwing production.

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

maybe the world needs a novel about the 8 active graduate students in the US in 1850

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

new essay from @avierkant.bsky.social on the double-bind health threat of data centers. "the 'promise' of AI is cancer alley everywhere." blindarchive.substack.com/p/indifferen...

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Indifference engines

Brief thoughts on AI and data centers

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

the 10 presidents in Inside Higher Ed’s analysis who earned the most from outside board service in 2025.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

2/ Florida brags that their response is the first in the country, but if we’re being snarky, Vanderbilt was first by responding in advance to what it probably knew would be the content. substack.com/@brendancant...

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Is the Compact 2.0 the Work of Authoritarian Entrepreneurs?

Academic status seeking might drive some campus executives to work with the Trump Administration.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"...findings that 3 [insts] violated civil rights law by tolerating antisemitism were predetermined by political priorities that blew past the evidence and cast aside standard investigative procedures..." Reading the whistleblower statement and taking rage breaks www.ms.now/news/frame-u...

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Whistleblower says probes into antisemitism at colleges were ploys to harass and strip millions

A former Justice Department lawyer says the Trump investigations squeezed Ivy League universities for millions before they were even concluded. A top Democrat is demanding answers.

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Or today in basic utilities become surveillance machines

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

adding to the thread of Hall time greats, a long one but an excellent excursus of the crisis of hegemony, "moments when the whole basis of political leadership and cultural authority become exposed and contested."

A crisis of hegemony marks a moment of profound rupture in the political and economic life of a society, an accumulation of contradictions. If in moments of 'hegemony' everything works spontaneously so as to sustain and enforce a particular form of class domination while rendering the basis of that social authority invisible through the mechanisms of the production of consent, then moments when the equilibrium of consent is disturbed, or where the contending class forces are so nearly balanced that neither can achieve that sway from which a resolution to the crisis can be promulgated, are moments when the whole basis of political leadership and cultural authority becomes exposed and contested. When the temporary balance of the relations of class forces is upset and new forces emerge, old forces run through their repertoires of domination. Such moments signal, not necessarily a revolutionary con juncture nor the collapse of the state, but rather the coming of "iron times'. It does not follow either that the 'normal' mechanisms of the state are abrogated. But class domination will be exercised, in such moments, through a modification in the modes of hegemony; and one of the principal ways in which this is registered is in terms of a tilt in the operation of the state away from consent towards the pole of coercion. It is important to note that this does not entail a suspension of the 'normal' exercise of state power - it is not a move to what is sometimes called a fully exceptional form of the state. It is better understood as - to put it paradoxically - an 'exceptional moment' in the 'normal form of the late capitalist state. What makes it 'exceptional' is the increased reliance on coercive mechanisms and apparatuses already available within the normal repertoire of state power, and the powerful orchestration, in support of this tilt of the balance towards the coercive pole, of an authoritarian consensus.

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This from Lesley Doyal is so critical in addressing social goods as both limits on provision and a hierarchized structure of labor and knowledge.

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Hence a socialist health service would not only have to provide equal access to medical care but would also have to address itself seriously to such problems as how to demystify medical knowledge and how to break down barriers of authority and status both among health workers themselves and also between workers and consumers.
Indeed the whole notion of treating patients' - of seeing them as passive recipients of medical expertise - would need to be rethought.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I’m sorry, Arday himself can’t benefit from this but his family can. Why shouldn’t they if people want to buy it? It’s so telling that *this* is what is considered “monstrous.”

Thomas Chatterton Williams:

Yikes, the Arday book is on its way to becoming a bestseller now, and it feels pretty cynical that the publisher hasn’t pulled it

Tyler Austin Harper quoting him:

Monstrous

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

lots of higher ed data and contracts up for grabs here

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Correct. UCSF, Stanford, and Hopkins to be precise.

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I've been thinking a lot about how the discourse around these guys --Bhattacharya, Makary-- is that they are outsiders attacking the biomedical research system, but really they are themselves products (and stars even) of this system.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Now this is how you write a critique of the contemporary university. My eyes are burning. This is something worth talking about.

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