Tricia Matthew

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Isn’t it just great!

Kim F. Hall: The Sweet Taste of Empire YouTube video by Barnard Center for Research on Women

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Then you can buy it at 40% discount.

Description of podcast (link in bio)

Book Cover: The Trembling Hand

Picture of Mathelinda Nabugodi

www.raceandregency.org/podcast

The Race and Regency Pod:

New Episode featuring Mathelinda Nabugodi

Doesn't seem like its trickled down to classes yet, but bould you imagine being at admissions at another school and trying to interpret equivalent classes & degrees for transfer? No one will be able to figure out what people were studying in class.

The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.🗃️

from a column by another colleague I posted a few days ago.

Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.

"[admin]...who regard the...students of their own universities with such contempt as to be undeserving of the education that in many cases those administrators themselves, or their parents, or their children received...are an enemy of the educational enterprise"

🎁 link

www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...

A quote: "In the Trump era, we’re familiar with the idea that Stage IV capitalism has collapsed satire into reality."

:-(

Yes. And, in this case, everyone could see the strategy for collecting faculty input.

15 depts in College of Humanities and Social Sciences will be completely eliminated and replaced by
~ School of Human Behavior & Well-Being
~ Center for Interdisciplinary Programs & Writing Studies
~ Institute for Y (e.g. Intelligence, Value, and Societal Structures)

Wth? Sounds like BBC show W1A.

It is very frustrating for multiple reasons, including polls that are used to mimic seeking faculty input in good faith.

It feels like we’re well into this process at my institution.

More devastating "restructuring," this time at Montclair State.

Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.

www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...

Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.

Love that you call him by his new name! 😅

We have all been watching this unfold…it’s really sad.

I think I am in your former office.

This is a grotesque assault on faculty expertise and self-governance. I was fortunate enough to start my academic career as an assistant professor at Montclair State. Solidarity with MSU humanists being buzzworded into a new School of Human Narratives and Creative Expressions none of them want.

Ghastly. I am not surprised to see the increasingly sinister term 'Well-Being' deployed in these plans.

Montclair State University has with no reasonable justification replaced all departments in the humanities and social sciences with four non-disciplinary units, seemingly randomly chosen by uni executive leadership with no regard for faculty input or governance. Terrible & portentous

The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…

Weapons in the dissolution of the humanities are "Born-old buzzwords": “synergy,” “multipliers,” “mindset,” “vision” (as a verb), “agility,” “impactfulness,” “clients,” “entrepreneurship,” “branding,” “future-proofing.”

Adam Rzepka on the pursuit of “excellence.”
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...

The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…

"This urgent order to clear away the entire, centuries-old idea of disciplinary governance in one fell swoop is both radical and without even a functional ideology—an especially pure plane of the empty-mind austerity satirized from Office Space to Severance." Adam Rzepka wp.me/p8xr4h-dil

This is definitely coming to many more public universities. Particularly the dissolution of departments and creation of large schools/institutes.