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Chris Marsicano

@chrismarsicano.com
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Davidson College professor | Director, College Crisis Initiative (C2i)| Studies #highered #edpolitics & #edpolicy | PhD, Vanderbilt | MPP, Duke | Whatever we used to call tweets ≠ Endorsements

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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 07/01/2026
The (Wild)cat is out of the bag! The Institute for Public Good at Davidson College won a $4M FIPSE grant - the largest competitive federal grant in the College’s history - to create a nationwide network of civil discourse programs at 100 colleges and universities. www.davidson.edu/news/2026/01...
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Davidson College Institute for Public Good Wins Historic $4M Federal Grant to Foster Civil Debate
Davidson College’s Institute for Public Good has been awarded a historic $4 million federal grant—the largest in the college's history—to foster civil debate and respectful disagreement across 100 cam...
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Russ @russ41.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Time for another fundraiser. This weekend, I will donate $0.50 to @boltsmag.org AND @mississippifreepress.org for EACH of: - every new Bluesky follower I get - every new Bluesky follower THEY get - everyone who reposts this post Repost this, follow me, and follow both of them = I donate $4 total.
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 30/06/2025
I was terrifyingly bad at this…
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 29/06/2025
Primarying Tillis may be a lot harder than the President realizes. www.theassemblync.com/politics/sen...
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Why Thom Tillis Shouldn’t Worry About the Primary
The North Carolina senator is facing attacks from Donald Trump and his advisers, but a GOP primary candidate seems unlikely to beat Tillis in 2026.
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 24/06/2025
Well... I think it is clear the President is losing patience with Israel and Iran. www.wsj.com/video/trump-...
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Trump Says Iran, Israel ‘Don’t Know What the F— They’re Doing’
President Trump scolded Israel for striking Iran and angrily accused both sides of violating a cease-fire.
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 20/06/2025
I don't think I've ever felt sorry for Juventus before, but I do now. Goodness. This was more than "a bit weird." thehill.com/homenews/adm... CC: @marcellograz.bsky.social
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 16/06/2025
Congress is proposing a HUGE increase in the tax on college endowments—up to 21%—to punish elite universities and fund tax cuts. But the people who’ll really pay the price? Students. Here’s my new OpEd with CJ Ryan on the Endowment Tax in the KC Star: www.kansascity.com/opinion/read... 1/6 🧵
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Congress targeting the Ivy League hurts low-income college students more | Opinion
Increasing universities’ endowment tax would be much bigger blow to Kansas’ McPherson College than to Harvard or Columbia. | Opinion
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 16/06/2025
Conservatism isn't selective taxation on goods already purchased. That's what the new EV levy would be. A great piece from @mattbaidc.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | This tax testifies to the utter corruption of conservative thought
Congress is coming for your EV — and what’s left of conservatism.
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 11/06/2025
Fantastic piece showing how we got the extraordinary national debt we have today. TL;DR version: Bush cut taxes and funded two wars, Obama ended neither the tax cuts nor the wars; Trump gave out stimulus checks and tax cuts. Biden paid for infrastructure. www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
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See how the national debt grew to more than $36 trillion
Washington spent and cut taxes while the debt was rising.
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 23/05/2025
Something that I don’t share often: I was an Odyssey of the Mind World Champion. My team beat out teams from Singapore🥈 and Poland🥉 to bring home the gold🥇. A couple of years later my younger sibling won... twice. In the early 2000s, the name “Marsicano” was to OM what “Manning” was to the NFL.
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 22/05/2025
AC Milan and Man U are going to be dangerous next season. You heard it here first. No European competition to make them galavant across the continent. Pure focus on the task at hand - qualifying for the UCL. Dangerous. (Oh and congrats to Spurs, seriously.)
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 08/05/2025
I've been able to watch what Napoli has done this season. Having a full week between matches every week, rested legs from not having to play four competitions, and a league specialist coach in Conte to manage the team have turned Napoli into a contender.
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 08/05/2025
It is ridiculous that (if these results hold) the 15th and 16th best teams in the 20 team English Premier League will soon compete for the second-most prestigious trophy in Europe. Even more ridiculous is the fact that the loser of that final will probably be a contender to win the EPL in 2025-26.
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
DC Takes on D.C.: Davidson College Seniors Present Educational Studies Research @aefpweb.bsky.social Great mentorship from @chrismarsicano.com! www.davidson.edu/news/2025/05...
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DC Takes on D.C.: Davidson College Seniors Present Educational Studies Research at AEFP
Four Davidson College seniors reflect on presenting their undergraduate research at the annual Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) conference in Washington, D.C.., where they also netw...
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 08/05/2025
A fantastic OpEd from a West Point professor on why academic freedom at Army is necessary for our nation's national security. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
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Opinion | West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 30/04/2025
Hey Y'all! CPPHE proposals are due TODAY! We want your work! www.ashe.ws/call-for-pro...
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Call For Proposals - Association for the Study of Higher Education
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ben @btskinner.io · 29/04/2025
Not exactly the same, but sort of like this? bsky.app/profile/btsk...
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 29/04/2025
For instance, let’s say you paid $1,000 in taxes. You’d get a confirmation screen showing something like: • $240 for Medicare/Medicaid • $210 for Social Security • $130 for defense spending • $130 for debt service • $7 for Head Start • $3 for US AID I wonder whether that alone would change policy.
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 29/04/2025
Every time you pay taxes on a program like turbo tax or tax slayer, the confirmation screen should come with the dollar-for-dollar breakdown of what your taxes fund.
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 29/04/2025
Every retailer should do this.
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 29/04/2025
Oh Parma and Udinese, you beautiful, beautiful teams.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 26/04/2025
Dear Social Scientists, Just a reminder: Amidst attacks on the social sciences & higher ed, now is a very good time to be posting here &/or elsewhere abt your latest research, topics in the news that hit on your expertise, or both. If you believe your field has public value, show it. sociology
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 26/04/2025
Davidson seems like a college town monoculture. Then you realize professors live next to NASCAR pit chiefs who live next to corporate executives who live next to frat guys. And yet the whole place still feels like Mayberry. Don’t get me wrong - I love it. But it is SO weird. In a good way.
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 21/04/2025
Everyone on the left who slammed Harvard for being too elite and not focused enough on the common man for the past decade after today:
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a woman is sitting at a table with a candle in front of a bookshelf in a bookstore .
ALT: a woman is sitting at a table with a candle in front of a bookshelf in a bookstore .
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Chris Bennett @chrisbennettedu.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Mimetic isomorphism, do your thing
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 14/04/2025
We may have just witnessed the higher education equivalent of Hugh Jackman yelling, "Hey kid... now." Watch Duke, Stanford, and Notre Dame over the next few weeks. They will be bellwethers. bsky.app/profile/chri...
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 14/04/2025
"[Harvard] will not negotiate over its independence or its constitutional rights... No government—regardless of [who] is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue." www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
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The Promise of American Higher Education
No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
But wait... There's more! Did those who received cash get lazier and work less? Nope! "We find no evidence that people love doing nothing. This stereotype is not supported by research on basic income – or any other research."
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Margaret Thornton @maggiethornton.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I think we are up to study eleventy billion with this same finding, but I may have lost count.
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 13/04/2025
Write your own code, folks...or at least check it if A1 "writes" it for you.
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 12/04/2025
This looks like a fabulous opportunity. www.sciencespo.fr/axpo/call-fo...
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Call for Applications for AxPo Visiting Scholars
Visiting Fellow Research Stays at AxPo, Sciences Po, ParisApplication deadline: May 19, 2025Applications are open now for research stays planned in the 2025-2026 (limited spots available) and the 2026...
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 09/04/2025
I just saw a political ad for a 2026 Republican Senate candidate that focused on how he fought against the "leftist Biden agenda." I didn't realize Biden was still President. Did you?
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 08/04/2025
How is this controversial?!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
👇🎯
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 06/04/2025
Now I’m up after midnight thinking about Trajan Langdon.
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 06/04/2025
The more I think about this, the more I think that this team was the best Duke team not to win a National Championship. And yes, I remember the pain of ‘99. I said what I said. Cooper Flagg > Elton Brand.
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 06/04/2025
I’m sad Duke lost (I’m a Duke MPP alum). But I’m especially sad that THIS Duke team lost. One of the best college basketball teams ever. High-flying. Fantastic defense. Played with JOY and TEAMWORK every game. This team made the Brotherhood moniker be more than just a brand. So fun to watch.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 06/04/2025
Trade deficit. I have bought food from say, Chilis. They have never bought food from me. There is a trade deficit with Chilis. I’m still doing fine. The trade deficit argument SOUNDS compelling, but it’s a straw man with no relevancy
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 05/04/2025
Analysis: if tariff ⬆️ then stonk ⬇️
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Proud of AEFP, of which I am a past president www.citizen.org/news/lawsuit...
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Lawsuit Challenges Trump Admin’s Dismantling of Institute of Education Sciences - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)…
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 03/04/2025
A third Trump term is blatantly unconstitutional. Just like a third Obama term would have been. You know what is not unconstitutional? Speaker of the House Donald J. Trump.
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 03/04/2025
Princeton on Tuesday, Tufts yesterday. Schools are beginning to show signs that they may soon be ready to get out of the “Not Yet” phase. Colleges are not yet out of “Not Yet”… but the day is coming.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Librarians are generals in the war on ignorance.
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Goldie Blumenstyk @goldiestandard.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Signed by the university president. A principled response.
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 03/04/2025
Lost in all of the talk about tariffs is probably the most important aspect of free trade: It prevents wars. While there will be lots of articles in the next few days about the impact of tariffs on global markets and the economy, I am more concerned about their impact on global peace.
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 31/03/2025
Would this work? I have no idea. But the piece is definitely interesting. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Putin is stalling and Trump holds all the cards. It’s time for ‘maximum pressure.’
The Russian leader is in no position to drag his feet.
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 31/03/2025
This would have been my dream postdoc. Sharing so my “Lobbying in Higher Ed” friends can see.
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 29/03/2025
I love college towns in the spring. Today’s sunny 70° weather is perfect both for the town farmers’ market and the college track meet. But before we watch runners, my family and I are going to a performance of Bach’s Coffee Cantata and may have lunch at the Soda Shop. Is this a Hallmark movie?!
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 25/03/2025
Colleges are scrambling to respond to the Trump administration. Davidson, in particular, is working on building relationships between lawmakers and our President. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Universities Sprint From ‘We Will Not Cower’ to Appeasing Trump
With much of their funding at stake, schools are quietly hiring lobbyists and reaching out to politicians amid Washington’s quest to rein in academia.
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Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 21/03/2025
I am so glad @dougwebberecon.bsky.social saved this gem of an interaction on the other place between @dcollier74.bsky.social and Duke’s Mayo. After a rough day, I needed this tonight. God bless you, Doug. And God Bless Duke’s Mayo.
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