New Haven People's Center on April 18, 2026   I gave this talk at the 45 th Anniversary Conference of the Whitney Humanities Center, Y...

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...

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 ...

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...

by Michael Meranze This week's election, combined with the success of faculty led lawsuits against the Trump Administration's effort...

No Regrets Sunday Morning, Victoria Line    I’ve often broached this topic, most recently in relation to the new UC Irvine plan for hyper-au...

Serpentine, Hyde Park London May 18, 2025    UC Irvine is facing major cuts to its academic core, bigger in some places than others.  UCI le...

Outside Lafayette, La. on October 27, 2018 By Leslie Bary, University of Louisiana at Lafayette I just wrote a mini-grant for $858, to cover...

Date: November 23, 2021   To: Susannah Scott, Academic Senate Chair, UCSB   Henry Yang, Chancellor, UCSB   Cc: Michael V. Drake, UC Preside...