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UCLA Royce Hall on May 14, 2018    By early spring of the   annus horribili s 2025, the UCLA Senate had lost patience with a UCLA Administra...

  East Village on October 31, 2022    Looks like it.     There’s some good stuff in Tyler Austin Harper’s  Atlantic  article,  “The Multibil...

By Michael Meranze It is too soon to tell what will be the long term impact of the federal invasion of Minneapolis.  But it is clear that th...

By Michael Meranze In his last post , Chris made a call for increased faculty governance on budgetary matters and a proposal for how we mig...

Duke Women's Basketball 65-58 Virginia, Jan 16 2026 I’m in the middle of a two week residency at Duke’s Franklin Institute for the Human...

Train Entering Station NYC on Oct 30, 2022    I mean the question literally.   The New School (TNS, by which I’ll mean all its colleges) has...

Selling The Catalyst, UCSB on April 12, 2014    2025 saw a shift in the hard right’s measure for the success of its decades-long attacks on ...

UC Berkeley on May 29, 2024    Every meeting tells a story as Rod Stewart once sang, more or less.   What stories have UC’s Office of the...

MLA Convention, New Orleans on January 11, 2025    By Liron Mor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine To Executive Director Paula Krebs, and Me...

Indiana University on November 3, 2025    by Johannes Türk Chair of Germanic Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana Universit...

  Indiana University on November 6, 2025    Critiquing universities is one thing and rebuilding them is another. Getting from the first to...