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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

great piece on Admin Bloat 2.0 by @hiphination.bsky.social Admin has been eating higher ed for decades. It must be defeated. globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here are eight things public universities can’t do with their current budget model. There’s a new plan, discussed at the link, that won’t fix the budget but will hurt research

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Stadium owner Rober Kraft cancelled Macklemore, who challenged Kraft to match his $1 million donation to Palestinian support groups. Kraft doesn’t uncancel and evades pledge

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I not only endorse but am thrilled by this message- from my current posting-while-prone position. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

this is great student journalism at @DukeChronicle . When I was there in January the faculty had been told office cleaning would be cut back to once a month or so by an outsourced company after firing many low-income staff, and then these executives cleaning up

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Searched Harlem for napolitos and then I saw that I can come back later.

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Gallup-Lumina poll on college confirms that Americans are upset about the personal politics of professors--that is, 11% are concerned. Three-quarters are upset about lack of affordability. Colleges should ignore the Twitter / Atlantic debates and lower costs while heading to debt-free for all

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

really very good @vtfeminist on the sociopathology of the SCOTUS anti-trans cases @TheProspect prospect.org/2026/07/01/s...

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A portion of The New School's staff and faculty have just been fired. This is its AAUP chapter's response to another debacle. Sympathy to the affected people and hope that their colleagues can roll at least some of the cuts back

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Wouldn't it be amazing to see this headline about UniversitiesUK? This is Austria's official uni association striking against government cuts. Via @wonkhe.bsky.social

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

the FT has two pieces on the slow-motion collapse of UK higher ed. 4/5ths of unis are doing voluntary layoffs; 38% are doing compulsory. Meanwhile Britain and its flatlined productivity growth sleepwalks through its unprecedented loss of advanced capabilities www.ft.com/content/8097...

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

At ISRF, we're doing a series called 'Dispatches from British Academics." Actual profs are absent from public discussion of universities, and we mean this to be a partial corrective. The first four are here including Lorna Finlayson's Scabology. enjoy-and circulate! isrf.org/search?q=&ta...

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

great investigation into Opus Dei's network of front operations on colleges campuses. www.ft.com/content/6175...

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The right claims to have the answers, and here's their answer--illness and death! The combination of privatization (US) and austerity (UK) have put the UK and US in 20th and 21st out of 21 countries in this study. Dead last, dead being the key word. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Yale isn't pausing grad programs like Chicago, but it's cutting them very badly. Story at @yaledailynews.bsky.social

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

epic fail. Lots of possibilities opening up

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

62 military veterans were arrested for protesting the war on Iran at the Capitol. Where is everybody else?? www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Details here reinforcing the fact that Texas Republicans have eliminated academic freedom in that state. And also this, from one of the departing profs: it's not a popular position, it's a distraction position (from the Rs doing nothing for people's everyday issues other than making them worse).

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I went to Queen Mary UCU to see if they had info about the new redundancy plan announced for Goldsmiths (5th or 6th in the past decade), and found the kind of list you find now for UK universities. The sector management is just ridiculous. @UKLabour is letting slow collapse happen.

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Here in Britain, where Labour is finishing the job on universities started by the Tories & Lib Dems, I see a lot of these bounce messages

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Link to the UC event "Pause the Cuts, Restore Shared Governance," organized by Trevor Griffey & Chelsea Schields. I was one of the speakers, and among other things the talk will satisfy your burning curiosity about this dramatically terrible slide! www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-8M...

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

as NEH grants are turned into a slush fund for right-wing educational projects, clicking on NEH Leadership from the link gets you this. www.neh.gov/resources-of...

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

it’s devastating to see students looking at their professors as cowed and silenced people. Instead, they need to see their professors actively fighting right-wing censorship.

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Meranze's new post at the Remaking blog: UC officials are making technical changes in personnel policies in a way that could allow them to set academic freedom aside when they perceive it to conflict with their institutional interests. Know the fine print utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/uc-m...

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

If you are wondering what Labour plans to do to British universities, I wrote a piece for you! isrf.org/blog/labours...

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Open UC Sytemwide Town Hall on Friday Nov 7!

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

More of the abject collapse of corporate America before Trump. The head of the FCC threatens ABC with (illegal) license pulling, ABC owner Disney's CEO Bob Iger cancels Kimmel. Iger suspends the First Amendment: Boycott Disney!

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

a LARGE number of University of California unions and related organizations are rallying at the Board of Regents meeting on Tuesday. It's united opposition to capituation to Trump. Do join if you can! and please spread the word.

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I wrote a new post at Remaking on the Brown U agreement--much worse than announced--and what it would take for faculty to block defeatist policy. I discuss 5 statements--Paxson at Brown, @adam_tooze vs. @lionel_trolling, Paul Campos, Rachid Khalili. The final 2 really help. An Athens sunset. /1

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

in my list of revenue crushes coming to highered via Trumpism, cutting student loan forgiveness & plans is number 12, and the worst for current students. This is from Hiltzik's very good piece www.latimes.com/business/sto...; also my list of revenue crises utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/05/line...

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

U.S. Med research peer review to be replaced by RFKs personal opinions. Via STAT

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The survey is billed as "few support punitive funding cuts to colleges and universities."But actually only 45% oppose them, throwing in the "somewhat oppose." Trump has controlled US political discourse for 10 years with 40% approval, so to reverse his heinous nonsense means actively building bigger

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

@insidehighered.com has a hopeful piece on public support for higher education, but sadly the data's not so great. Here's a screenshot from the underlying study. I'm not excited that 44% favor "courses that teach about racism." IHE: www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Trumper war on research looking ahead, with a Kennedy twist. From STAT.

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Who Rules the Academy--and how to fight back! our panel is at 1 pm Eastern on Today's Day of Action for Higher Ed! www.dayofactionforhighered.org

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

"The optimistic case is that we have passed peak stupid"--but Katie Martin @financialtimes.com explains why the damage is done. www.ft.com/content/fbe7...

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Today’s ⁦‪@FT‬⁩ 1page of the British poly crisis—capitalism demands subsidies, builders can’t build safe buildings, NHS privatization by pieces, drill baby drill

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

this is why you want a businessman in the White House.

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Further to my belief that Trupp is the gravedigger of the U.S. economy, this from an Aston U report at the FT. Tarrifs hurt North America the most, taking down peaceful neighbors to north and south, then the US itself. Tech tax haven Ireland is the only real victim among European "enemies."

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Classic terrible chilling effect of attacks on free speech and academic freedom: Yale bans its own scholar from campus after one AI website links her to a sanctioned organization @nytimes.com

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

it's completely maddening that McMahon of world wrestling can casually destroy the Dept of Education, especially its units collecting data on things like racial inequality of attainment, without evidence of a problem and with only a bullshit PR statement about how gutting is really efficiency.

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