Things are awful now, for sure. The book tells a story of how we got here, which, unfortunately, mostly illustrates how the practices of the present became both possible and sedimented. Here's the preface and toc, for anyone who is interested!

Thanks Phil! I wish the timing were less impeccable, though.

I think about Vineeta Singh's term "opportunistic compliance" all the time!

Thank you for coming!!!

Clyde Barrow's work is very helpful on this. The call has often come from inside the ivory walls. "GOD, CAPITALISM, AND THE STATE: The Cultural Counterrevolution in US Universities, 1980–1990"

i also set aside some time in my classes on tuesday to address the news. it was challenging for me, and challenging for the students. but it was also necessary and reaffirmed what can be so important about the space of the classroom. afterwards several women came up to thank me.

Agreed! I haven't processed through it all yet, but it definitely seems like a marked shift in donor tactics that's necessary to clock and follow.

Sure, but unlike the GI Bill, it cannot be in the form of individual grants. Fund the public schools, especially community colleges, directly! Require faculty governance!

The prize seeks to influence the conditions under which some ideas, and people, and fields continue into the future. What would would it mean for people working to "save the university" or particular programs worked on a similar time-scale? What do we want to actually endure?

I'm struck by the temporality of all of it. Or the way they read and construct a temporal idea of the university. The Sapir piece is all about strategies for shaping the work scholars do in the university across decades, instead of news cycles. Carob is putting that into practice.

Thinking about this "trust prize" for "academic courage" this morning and a piece in Sapir from the summer on how donors should think about changing universities through a talk I gave at UMass WGSS's 50th anniversary event this weekend. /1

Saw this other day and worked it into a talk on the history of the corp u I gave at UMass yesterday. It's both terrifying and clarifying. Teaching your work in a couple weeks in my aus course, btw!

Seems like a quick application of this guidance.

Agreed. And this is exactly the part that gets missed: international students aren’t just students. They’re workers, researchers, teachers, journalists, people —and the pathways from one to the other have been getting narrower and more precarious for years.

Yep. Huge chunks of higher ed have been built around international students while their presence has been kept deliberately precarious. Turns out that contradiction has consequences.

Excited to hear from friends that this is out in the world! Looking forward to holding it myself too... It is definitely a much better project thanks to @isaackamola.bsky.social's brilliance and support ❤️