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Higher Education
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The Last Graduate Students?
“I began writing this as a record of what it felt like to be a student then, as collective attachments to values—long recognized as fraying, with the knell of the next scapegoat, or horrifying spectacle—face the final chopping block: public good, responsibility to others, democracy itself.”
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“Being Undocumented Is Already a Chronic Stress. Then, Add in Blackness”: Talking with Dr. Felecia Russell on the Experience of Black Undocumented Folks
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Remember Them: Palestine Scholars Murdered in the Gaza Genocide
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Manufacturing Goodness: What Administrators Really Do and Why
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“We Want You to Leave Home”: Crystal Sanders on Black Southerners and “Segregation Scholarships”
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Resistance Disguised as a History Lesson: Fascism and the University
Her student—a former Nazi stormtrooper—was proof that no one was lost to the new regime, that every person might choose to refuse.
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The Uncomfortable Lightness of Dark Academia
“Asked where she got the idea for the mystery novel, the author said she was inspired by a colleague in her real academic life who does ‘noble’ work but is ‘such an asshole.’”
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Shoptalk: Overheard at ASA 2025 or MLA 2026?
This edition of Shoptalk asks: Can you guess which of the following was overheard at ASA 2025 and which was overheard at MLA 2026?
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AI=B+
“The essays ChatGPT produced in mere seconds are quite plausible as the last-minute work of a rushed undergraduate.”
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The Misuses of the University
Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?
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Defending the Possibility of the University: A Roundtable on “University Keywords”
“What would it look like for faculty unions and graduate student unions to collaborate or work together with K-12 teachers’ unions to push back against anti-DEI legislation or book bans?”
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Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
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Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England’s leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
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Toward a University of Repair
What was so unique about Haverford College that it was worth mocking in a Congressional hearing?
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Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance!
The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.
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This Is Not a Choice—It Is a Charge: How HBCUs Must Embrace Black Radical Love & Empower Queer and Trans* Students
This essay calls in HBCUs to recommit to Black queer and trans* inclusion.
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To Save Public Higher Ed, Stop Revering California’s Tiered System
Open admissions to all state-funded public universities could break the competitive concentration of prestige, increase affordability, and restore Americans’ faith in higher education.
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To Save Higher Ed, Seek Our Black and Hispanic Men
Policymakers and institutional leaders seeking to preserve higher education’s functionality should consider the enrollment and completion rates of Black and Hispanic men.
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Our Right to Our Union: Graduate Student Workers Under Threat
University leaders may make a show of opposing Trump when funding is under threat, but they will happily align themselves with him in confronting graduate student workers.
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Toward the Next American University: A Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Higher Ed
The path higher education was on before Trump’s reelection was neither certain nor stable. There is not much to go back to now.
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The History of Women’s Studies Is a History of Conflict
Women’s studies programs in the United States are threatened by authoritarian pressure. For example, the Ohio legislature restricts how marriage and abortion can be presented in the college classroom, while the Florida state government took over a public college and abolished its gender studies program. At the federal level, words including “gender” and “women” are…
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Dark Academia Grows Up
R. F. Kuang uses the confluence of romantasy, academic satire, and dark academia to pose a more interesting set of questions. To wit: What is the magic that scholars find in the academy?
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What Future for College Football?
To reduce the manifold harms of college football, fiery calls for abolition pointed at university decision makers and public health officials won’t get the job done.
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When Universities Are Agents of the State
The story of Israeli universities serves as a warning for what US academia could become.
