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Erin Eger

@erineger.bsky.social
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Higher Education Administrator | Researcher | Teacher www.erineger.com

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Erin Eger @erineger.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This is another way! statenews.com/article/2025...
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MSU faculty join call for Big Ten 'mutual defense compact' against Trump administration - The State News
Under the compact, participating institutions would “commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund” that would “provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution un...
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 16/04/2025
I wrote a @chronicle.com essay on the financial strategies that research universities have available to survive the Trump administration's funding cuts. None of them are great, but they're likely better than agreeing to a consent decree.
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Opinion | Can Harvard, Columbia, and Other Universities Survive Trump’s Cuts?
There are a handful of viable financial strategies. They all have downsides.
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Erin Eger @erineger.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Congrats to Harvard for hopping over the low bar of standing up to political overreach. apnews.com/article/harv...
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Harvard's challenge to Trump administration could test limits of government power
On one side is Harvard, the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university, with a brand so powerful that its name is synonymous with prestige.
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Erin Eger @erineger.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This is the way. Focus on the core mission of producing and disseminating knowledge. Forget rankings, donors, and amenities. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o... Spend the endowment. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o... #HigherEd
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Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare (Gift Article)
It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This is a recipe for financially ruining U.S. research universities: 1) Vastly and rapidly reduce funding for research and infrastructure; 2) Scare international students, whose tuition helps fund PhD students (as TAs), away. These folks know exactly what they're doing.
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Erin Eger @erineger.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Rick Steves keeping it simple: “When you hear them framing somebody good into somebody bad, speak up. Don’t allow it.” “Institutions are public wealth.” youtu.be/86hnPrWozUo
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Hands Off National Day of Protest - Edmonds, WA
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Erin Eger @erineger.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Protest today in SF. #HandsOff #SanFrancisco
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Erin Eger @erineger.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
It is nice to see the AGs in these states fighting back. #HigherEd abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/1...
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16 state attorneys general sue Trump administration over NIH grant terminations
Sixteen state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday over its cancellation of NIH research grants.
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Erin Eger @erineger.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Finally on Bluesky! I’m a researcher and higher ed professional. I earned my Ph.D. in Education at the University of Washington. I study how institutional characteristics along with social, economic, and political contexts affect change in colleges and universities over time. #HigherEd #AcademicSky
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