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cole adams @cole-adams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm glad to be able to share this essay about what the last few years of higher ed crises felt like from one grad student's vantage - thinking about what the future holds for the post-COVID cohort of humanities PhDs.

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cole adams @cole-adams.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

spotted off the highway onramp??

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

So cool that amidst the greatest purge of left faculty since the Red Scare and the collapse of the humanities due to right wing assaults and decades of neoliberalism, the Chronicle of Higher Education has gone full David Horowitz and embraced far-right "cultural Marxist" conspiracy theory.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Wael Al-Dahdouh speaking to journalists around the world: "Where are you?"

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

"Ziplines is renting the brand equity of regionalized public higher education in the aggregate" but "the evolution of education which companies like Ziplines imagine is not one of mutual flourishing with their university partners, but one in which those partners can be retired and replaced."

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How Venture Capitalists Built A For-Profit "Micro-University" Inside Our Public Flagships

You can graduate any time, but you can never leave.

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Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

"Open Admissions highlights redistributions of classroom authority that link contemplation to action and foreground the classroom’s permeability to its world." New in review, Cole Adams on Danica Savonick's Open Admissions, from @dukepress.bsky.social: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/cole_adams_r...

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 07/03/2025

“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.

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Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello

So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...

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