Sunday, July 27, 2025

Liner Note 34: Derailing the Columbia Precedent

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Milos, Greece, on July 19, 2025    There’s a drift towards seeing the Penn and Columbia University deals with the Trump Administration   as ...
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Friday, July 25, 2025

The onto-epistemic limits of current American academic debates, Or what the modern West can’t think (Guest Post)

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  Kleftiko, Milos, Greece on July 21, 2025    by  Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill   Note: This text is based on a ...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

Liner Note 33. Trouble at the Irvine Core (UC Irvine Part 2)

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UCI May 25, 2018    We saw in Part 1  that UCI Finance attributes losses to the Schools –the academic core—rather than to the non-core or me...
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Friday, July 11, 2025

Liner Note 32. The Academic (Class) Crisis of Unilateral Budgeting

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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...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

University with A$1.5 Billion in Income Snuffs World-Renowned Humanities Center to Save Some Change (Guest Post)

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Australian National University     by Prof.  Kylie Message-Jones, The Australian National University The  Australian National University  (A...
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Liner Note 31. The University’s False Economy: UC Irvine, Part 1

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UC Irvine on May 8, 2018    As Trump’s blunderbuss shoots the bottom out of the research boat, how will UC Irvine, the   system’s middle cas...
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Friday, July 4, 2025

Liner Note 30: UPenn’s Trans Athlete Sell Out is Also a Disaster for Universities

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Dún Laoghaire Ireland on June 18, 2025 I haven’t found dissent in the standard places about Penn’s capitulation to Trump on transgender wome...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Liner Note 29: SCOTUS Chaos for Universities

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Berlin on June 23, 2025    This is going to be short--I’m between the 3 rd   and the 4 th  of my conferences in the second half of June—but ...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Liner Note 28. Hyponormalization of University Budgets: The University of Minnesota's False Economies

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Dublin Bay on June 17, 2025    Universities can’t fight an impeding fiscal disaster if they can’t face its size and destructive power.     A...
Monday, June 9, 2025

Liner Note 27: Relentless Powers of the Grassroots Experts

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Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on May 28, 2025 The foundation I direct, the ISRF , had particularly good annual board meetings at the end of Ma...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Betrayed: UC Is About to Make $267 Million in Unnecessary Budget Cuts, Harming Instruction and Undermining Goodwill with the State Legislature and Governor (Guest Post)

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Irvine, California on May 25, 2018    by Trevor Griffey, UC Irvine.  How does it feel to be laid off unnecessarily?   June 1 is the deadline...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

Liner Note 26. the University of California’s Fiscal Crisis

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Santa Barbara on December 24, 2023    In the May Revision of his January budget proposal for 2025-26, California Governor Gavin Newsom cut h...
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