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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

And as soon as tomorrow, Judge Talwani may also issue a TRO against the new rule the USPS issued Friday night to implement the EO. In other words, this is a small win for the Trump administration, but *not* a ruling that fully clears the way for Trump to mess with mail-in ballots come November.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 11/07/2026

Homes are for families — not private equity!

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

We've got a new article about abuses in higher ed financial aid's weird world of discipline and punish: California takes students' tax refunds to pay private colleges for dubious debts imposed on students when they're financial aid is revoked because they fail to complete an academic term.

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Kevin Warsh wants to ban any research like this by the Federal Reserve.

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Dalié Jiménez @dalie.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I'm testifying this morning at the Little Hoover Commission hearing on Institutional Student Debt in California about debt collection and tax offset issues. Hearing starts at 9:30am PT with @charlieeaton.bsky.social as the first witness. You can watch live here: lhc.ca.gov/report/new-s...

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yonicd.bsky.social @yonicd.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The overlap of offshore wealth and higher ed funding has been an issue since the 80s unfortunately. Great research resource is @charlieeaton.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

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Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Finan…

Exposes the intimate relationship between big finance a…

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Did not think of University of Utah as a poster child for elite embeddedness -- how prestigious social organizations like university boards provide connections that elites use to defend their economic status...

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Glad folks are founding our paper useful. Much of our data is also available here: github.com/HigherEdData...

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Vitamin i seems pretty effective to me.

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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

always on point from @charlieeaton.bsky.social Elite universities should forge a new social contract with disenchanted Americans, not with the oligarchs behind Trump's "Compact." open.substack.com/pub/charliee...

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An Academic Social Contract

Elite universities should forge a new social contract with disenchanted Americans, not with the oligarchs behind Trump's "Compact."

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Hiked premiums haven't even gone into effect yet

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

"Shadow student debts" is a much better term for what we've normally called institutional student debts or sundry debts. Nice contribution. @debtcollective.bsky.social @dalie.bsky.social ir.library.louisville.edu/cgi/viewcont...

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

This intra-elite power struggle has implications for efforts to save freedom and democracy in the US. I'm looking forward to thinking with this piece.

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Silicon Valley Godzilla vs. Wall Street Mothra

The only two sectors thriving in Trump’s economy are increasingly sparring with each other.

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

"The size of the Supreme Court... has been changed in the past through ordinary legislation. Between 1863 and 1869, Republicans changed the Court’s size three times: first adding a tenth seat to give Abraham Lincoln an extra appointment." 1 /3

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The Premature Guide to Post-Trump Reform

American history offers three general strategies of repair and renewal.

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I don't see how democracy survives if the next Democratic president does not unpack the court.

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

So a president who has military parades for his birthday is anti war?

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

My latest: Trump's war on universities is not a bottom-up assault responding to working class resentment. It is driven by tensions between techno-financial elites, their professional workforce, and the elite universities that embedded the rise of both groups.

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The Elite War on Universities

Video and notes from my University of Chicago lecture.

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Down is up. War is peace. Dictatorship is democracy.

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I hope they televise this show trial.

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This is truly something to behold.

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W. Carson Byrd @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Social scientists have called this out for a while. From my own work to Latrica Best, Aaron Panofsky, Evelyn Hammonds, Reanne Frank, Alondra Nelson, Jonathan Kahn, Oliver Rollins, Rina Bliss, Ruha Benjamin, Troy Duster, & many more. Race as proxy fails because racial groups are not a genetic reality

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

To my surprise, my book is on sale for just $3.99 on Kindle! With big endowments under fire and elite universities fighting for their lives, the book tells part of the story for how we got here.

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Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education

Buy Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education: Read Kindle Store Reviews - Amazon.com

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I did an interview on Elite Embeddedness & why financiers like to be university trustees. @Chronicle.com also spoke to financier & Penn trustee Scott Bok who said we got it right: “[It's] a networking business. It’s useful... to be on a board that has people from all kinds of different industries.”

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W. Carson Byrd @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Coverage of the important work by @charlieeaton.bsky.social & colleagues about private equity in higher ed 👇

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Jim Kane @kanejim.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

From a different angle, it gives you a peek at the dynamics @charlieeaton.bsky.social and Albina Gibadullina discuss in their recent paper on the rise of financiers on university boards.

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Jim Kane @kanejim.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

From an Odd Lots episode last month, here's the head of hedge funds at Blackstone discussing tapping the Brown alumni network when he was the CIO of the endowment there. omny.fm/shows/odd-lo...

Why was that, Well, I think to put up really good returns, you have to figure out one what your competitive advantage is, and two you have to be an independent thinker and not follow the herd. And that's what we did at Brown. And I'll tell you how we created our competitive advantage because I owe it to the alumni. We we did a really good job was creating a network of alumni in each asset class. So we would work with our investment committee, but we would also reach out to some of the best investors on the planet by industry, and I would actually go and present our portfolio in that asset class and say, what do you think where can we do better? Who would you recommend we look at? How would you structure this? And so that was one of the secrets I think of us, which is using that network effect now, Joe, back to your comment. Most people don't like to do that because they're exposing themselves the same way that they feel pressure. They don't want people opining on what they were doing. But I was willing philosophically to have that kind of open transparency so that I could learn and benefit from the Brown ecosystem. And I always used to have this expression was I would go to people and I would say, what do you have to feed the bear? Because it's the brown bear, So feed the bear. Give us your best co investments. And I have an unbelievable all star alumni cast, and they carried Brown to greatness. I happened to shepherd the process with an incredible team.

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I guess I should have seen this coming

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I increasingly struggle to imagine any way out the US authoritarian turn that doesn't involve the next Democratic President unpacking the Supreme Court.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/05/2025

This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

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Moderna withdraws application for COVID-flu combination vaccine

Moderna said on Wednesday it has withdrawn an application seeking approval for its flu and COVID combination vaccine candidate after discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

If anything is to come of this, you’d want clear language from Schumer and Jeffries *now*: Dems won’t vote for any legislation this Congress that includes a provision to waive paygo. They will let the Republican Medicare cuts go into effect if Republicans pass their tax cuts.

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

This is what university leaders need to be saying on the steps of Congress every day, with cancer patients standing beside them. Otherwise, nothing will stop Trump's research funding cuts from being made permanent in his big budget cut bill.

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

University of Chicago! I will be in town Thursday to give this lecture open to the public. Hit me up!

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Back at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social for Neilfest to honor Neil Fligstein's retirement!

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Our EEPA paper on the media's role in shaping our understanding of student loans, race, and racism is here! Email me if you don't have access & want a copy. One of my fav papers for a few reasons but, most of all, it's my first paper with my husband 😍 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

Screenshot of the top of the article published in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. Title is Race below the fold: The absence of race in the news media's coverage of student loans. Written by me, Lauren Shook, Jaime Ramirez-Mendoza, and Christopher Bennett. Abstract reads: The media discourse on student loans plays a significant role in the way that policy actors conceptualize challenges and potential solutions related to student debt. This study examines language that explicitly indicates race and racism in student loan articles published in eight major newspapers from 2006 to 2021. We found that 18% of articles use any of this language, though use has accelerated since 2018. This increase appears driven by terms that denote groups of people instead of structural problems, with 8% of articles mentioning “Black” in a racialized context but less than 1% mentioning “racism.” These findings emphasize the importance of treating the media as a policy actor capable of shaping the salience of racialization in discussions about student loans.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Why is IHE publishing a press release?

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

“If I am approved, UF will remain a campus where all students are safe, where differing views can be heard and where the rule of law is respected.” Doubtful.

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Why I Chose University of Florida, by Santa Ono (opinion)

Santa J. Ono explains why he’s pursuing the University of Florida presidency.

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

NSF was founded largely out of fear of the Soviets overtaking us in technology and the space race. Without it, we probably can’t remain competitive with China.

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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Financialization has both created both vulnerabilities and resources for universities - including social ties to elites. Now is the time to leverage these ties.

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Financialization as a Double-Edged Sword for Universities

Full remarks from my Berkeley and Stanford talks on defending universities.

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