Oh wow this means so much to me! I was pitching it to general readers and so this is the best review I could have received!

Please do!

When is it due out? I have admin brain and need to set reminders to do things like "download article"!

I can't wait to read this!

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So thrilled you get to read it for the first time! Dwell on the narrator, tertiary characters, jokes, and asides!

Hot take. The government isn’t subsidizing university budgets. Universities are lending subsidized expertise to research and development that contributes to the public good. It’s called partnership.

No no you misunderstand. Learn to Code was the scam that beget the scam!

The Wall Street Journal Trump says he will delay tariffs on the EU until July 9, a reprieve from the threatened 50% levies set to go into effect on June 1

Beginning to think these tariffs are a lot like that chapter I promised for your edited collection.

the revealed position of the republican party is that it thinks broad expansion of higher education — and especially its expansion for certain americans — was a mistake that must be rolled back

Many students were recently admitted to Harvard (to various programs), and even if Harvard gets an injunction the students may choose to go elsewhere thinking it’s risky and the may end up having to transfer. Even if Noem loses in court it has caused irreparable damage, at least for coming year 1/

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

LAS Dean Venetria Patton kicking off a named professor investiture ceremony for Janice Harrington, Curtis Perry, and Gillen Wood

This was an amazing event: celebrating my excellent colleagues in the UIUC English Department 🥇🥇🥇

Maybe Shelley’s banned poem “England in 1819” was quoted 😭 Maybe the words “darkness” and “storms” came up a lot in the speeches ⛈️ But we are all still working very hard to do our best ♥️

Actually. How the US benefitted from outsourcing its research interests to experts in universities.

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The buttons made my year!

The Department of English at UIUC is hiring full-time Lecturers to teach composition: $58k to start, a 3/3 load, no service requirement, health insurance and other benefits! Positions are covered by a CBA (www.local6546.org), and come with support and notice rights. illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

these people swore an oath to defend the constitution but i guess that’s just too hard

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I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.

From my counterpart U of I English Department head in Chicago, this is a must-read on public higher education, its joys and its current crisis.

This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny.

Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.

Thank you! I've been waiting for this to come out!

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country.

We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one.

I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

This lab is steps away from the press—I park right by the building every day.

The richest man in the world is destroying American livelihoods & ensuring our country lags far behind the world in research & innovation

Screenshot of a post from a professor at the University of Illinois who has to shutdown his soy research lab and fire 30 researchers because Trump eliminated USAID.

There are already impacts on all of us since Trump closed USAID. This soy research lab is just one of many bad consequences for America.

Huge congratulations!!!

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