Elaine Sullivan

Indiana University fires student newspaper adviser who refused to block news stories Tension between Indiana University and its student newspaper flared this week with the elimination of the outlet’s print editions and the firing of a faculty adviser, who refused an order to keep news...

The administration also tried to censor the student paper: apnews.com/article/indi...

'You're cheating the students': IU to cut, merge almost 250 degrees to comply with state law After Indiana University volunteered to cut, merge or suspend 249 degrees to comply with a new law, faculty are wondering what comes next.

Watching people celebrate IU football when the “university” part is questionable…

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Luckily my university funds by class enrollments (“butts in seats”) but I’ve noticed first major = what they hope will get them a job, second major = what they actually find interesting and intellectually fulfilling

Oh duh. Story of my life!

Lumumba in the Arts | Leuven University Press Lumumba as a symbol of decolonisation and as an icon in the arts It is no coincidence that a historical figure such as Patrice Emery Lumumba, independent Congo’s first prime minister, who was killed i...

Though are you familiar with this book: lup.be/book/lumumba... ?

The article you shared is might be the best (or at least most thorough) one I've seen on it! All I can say is a bunch of us on social media have been saying "gosh it'd be great if someone wrote about this..."

UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026 As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...

What a time to decide to learn less about the world.

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Grading can really suck, but sometimes a student who's been struggling knocks it out of the park and I am literally sitting at my desk cheering out loud because I'm so excited for them

The rainforest the world forgot: the Congo basin is the second largest on Earth, so why is it being neglected? It is one of the world’s most vital carbon sinks, but this tropical rainforest is losing out when it comes to climate policy and funding

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Absolute Belgian-ness displayed here

The humanities grad school papers on this dynamic are gonna go on forever.

Having the realization that all the pedagogy "experts" I look to for advice on being a good teacher haven't taught undergrads in the past year, aka the Age of ChatGPT

My favorite

Writing an email well after 11 PM to colleagues, I think to myself oh well, now everyone will know I keep crazy hours. (Accompanied by worrying that this seems unprofessional.) Received multiple replies within 10 minutes.

the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education

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Had my first teaching anxiety dream of the year. First Monday of August - right on time!

Occasionally we remind people that paper is the most stable long-term storage medium* and it's always a surprise.

*Unless you're into carving your own stele, in which case you might have some significant long-term storage SPACE problems.

Brother Guy!! I got to meet him when I did a summer class in Rome and it was an absolute highlight

The Luba/Lunda kingdoms are underrated as historical actors in early modern Central Africa

Best part about a land-grant university will forever be the ice cream from our own dairy

Some guy on TikTok did a whole series on this about a year ago! I wish I could find it…

I did my PhD at UCLA and then a postdoc at UJ and I could go on for hours about how similar the two cities are!!

Exactly what I worried would happen happened: my univ gave me a fancy laptop with not a lot of storage bc everything is in the cloud, but now I'm in Nigeria with terrible wifi and I can't access my photos for a presentation

Thanks for sharing your thought process on this as I’m sure there are many of us trying to figure something out!

The main reason the federal budget cuts are now an existential threat for higher education is that states stopped funding higher education over the last 40 years. UW is but one illustrative example:

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

There’s an advantage we in the humanities have, which never before struck me as an advantage: it’s a lot harder to stop us when we don’t need labs.

Thanks to @greg.org for highlighting a fascinating discussion of an incredibly fragile sculpture in unbaked mud by artist David Hammons and the numerous challenges it presented to MoMA conservators greg.org/archive/2024...

I recently saw a presentation about the history of this museum and it was great! I am really looking forward to learning more!

Ok but would Europe like to steal America’s art historians? Asking for a friend