This semester my course with andy hines focuses on the political economy of higher education in the Philadelphia region. We’re thinking about universities as institutions that organize huge swathes of economic activity in our society. Read more here: haver.blog/2024/04/12/coo…

not really here, but thought it a good day to repost this.

this is going to be awesome tomorrow and I’d love for folks to join us in Swarthmore or wherever you use the internet.

On Friday, April 5, at 4:30 ET I'll be talking with Jodi Melamed and Chandan Reddy about their new book project on liberalism and command power.

Join us at Swarthmore, or, if you're elsewhere, you can watch virtually. Register with the link.

swarthmore.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Relatable. Why I’ve had this Du Bois quote on my office door for the past eight years.

why is this still happening

“We [at UC Davis] have a Chancellor overseeing discipline of students, staff, and faculty for stances they have taken on the genocide in Gaza while he profits from that genocide.” Urgent piece by Joshua Clover. MIR (Everyone for Everyone)

theaggie.org/2024/03/18/for…

theaggie.org/2024/03/18/for…

not enough characters or data center storage space to list academic related rejections for me on here.

This week I’m launching a personal project: Louisiana Higher Ed Weekly, a free weekly newsletter about #HigherEd happenings at the capitol and in our four higher ed systems. Subscribe here: #lalege #lagov #laed
louisianahigheredweekly.substack.com/subscribe

my critiques have gone too far

This Monopoly style board game of Yale made by the Black Panther's magazine in 1970 is fantastic. Someone should really make this.

Wednesday night, 3/20, 6pm--You'll want to be at this book talk. Ellen Schrecker and Jennifer Ruth talk about their new book (co-edited with Valerie Johnson)--The Right to Learn: Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom eventbrite.com/e/the-right-to…

this is my yearly “prettiest city in america for the next 2-3 weeks” tweet

At the same time VCU admin is handing faculty syllabi over to a hostile state government, they are enacting mass firings of Gen Ed faculty. The enrollment data is clear: if these terminations go through, VCU will not have faculty to teach students for the 2024-2025 school years.