Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed
We are a group of scholars, educators, and writers in higher ed working and collaborating to demand financial accountability and total realignment of funding to make education a public good with fair tuition and fair labor.
Public higher ed for all!
- 2013: Department of Commerce’s Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship spoke directly to colleges and universities around the country to understand how they are nurturing and promoting innovation and entrepreneurship. This effort was conducted in response to a letter that was marshaled...
- by the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship to the Department in 2011, which described how university-based innovation and entrepreneurship is blossoming, and outlining steps that the university community would like the US government to take to further nurture economic...
- value creation in conjunction with universities.
- The Underclass Is in Session... a vastly unequal academy. 'Not a single ivory tower anymore. An iron plinth of student debt upon which stands a decidedly thinner ivory tower that casts a long shadow over an academic underclass with few prospects for advancement.' @higheredlabor.bsky.social
- 'In the ivory tower there are staircases (narrow and crowded) to six-figure salaries, tenure protections, generous grants, and prestigious fellowships. On the iron plinth are 5/5 teaching schedules, semester-length employment contracts, and competitions for meager travel reimbursemt to conferences.'
- Yess -- but it's true everywhere: K-12 ed, food stamps, public transport, etc. This is the neoliberal project full effect w cultural narratives of market forces, efficiency, and finance obscuring the material movement of wealth/income upward to elites and gutting of the collective public good.
- Money, power, sex, connections -- the elites of academia are not immune. Another reason to fight for a higher education system for all students, faculty, staff, and communities that serves all equitable. Not just for the benefit of a handful of elites.
- Even More Higher Ed Names in the Epstein Files Epstein spoke frequently with scientists, often sharing his own theories about their work. bit.ly/3ZjOxPW #EDUSky #HigherEd
- Get organized -- and then follow the money $$ and demand shared governance.
- Follow the $$. And now when we follow the money, we will find shady allocations involving AI, particularly LLMs
- The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
