andy hines

wish I could be there!

“live podcast taping”

BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.

This book is so important! I am thrilled to see it make its way into the world. I ordered my copy today (there’s a sale rn) and it came with an ebook. 🔽💜

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Solidarity with Children

My book Solidarity with Children is coming out November 4th. Here’s a way to preorder it:

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i think that's right

Add it to the file. This is about how Morgan State is going to use their latest Mackenzie Scott donation. Thinking of you too @mattseybold.bsky.social

UPDATE: USC has now joined the list of "no" answers to the compact. moving this up, thanks
@gkantz.bsky.social

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Survey: Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Trump Higher Ed Cuts The poll also found more Democrats, Republicans and independents strongly trust universities to do what’s right than strongly distrust them—ranking colleges just behind hospitals and doctors, the mili...

People are distrustful of higher ed, but don’t like Trump’s approach. The administration is bad at using carrots to get longer-term results. That’s encouraging on the one hand because it’s implies we could move on. It’s discouraging on the other because Trump’s only play is to wreck.

Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.

PENN IS OUT! That means both institutions that signed prior agreements with the administration have said no. We're at 3 rejections.

I told y'all once the second one hit yesterday, the clock started for the rest.

www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Discussing my new book tonight at Red Emma’s with SNCC veteran Judy Richardson!

I'm writing a bit about right-feminist-fascisms as critical for the right's positive vision for higher education and discovered the amazing fact that Hillsdale College was the second coeducational institution in the US.

A curly headed guy in a green shirt holding a black book, titled Poetry in General by Keegan Cook Finberg

I have read every word of this book many times and I am eager to read them all again and for you to read them too. You will learn so much about poetry’s interdisciplinarity and its ties to political economic shifts.

Congrats @keegancf.bsky.social!

How to Protect Your Right to Culture The United States government’s coordinated repeal of the right to culture has grave consequences for the texture of our daily lives. But there are ways to fight back.

Culture might seem a less consequential right than free assembly+ its infringement makes less spectacular news than repressive violence. But the repeal of the right to culture is grave.

honored to be with @isanchezprado.bsky.social in @hyperallergic.com today!

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Brown is out! They had to do more dancing in their letter because they previously capitulated and needed to reference their previous agreement but, at its core, this reiterates MIT's letter.

The clock is now on for all other institutions.

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

A blue poster advertising university keywords book lunch at noon on 10-15-25 in Gilman 138D

Oh look! I’m talking about University Keywords at John’s Hopkins today at noon. Thanks to AGHI and the Chloe Center for hosting me.

AAUP chapters across the nation in solidarity against Trump's compact!

"Jonathan Gilligan, who proposed the resolution, [said]
that the language of the resolution closely mirrored that of the University of Virginia’s...to 'help ensure unity & solidarity'" for others opposing the compact.

Link👇

All together now:

If you make "controversial statements" outside of classroom, that the President of the university dislikes, you can be summarily fired even if you are tenured.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

Texas Conference of American Association of University Professors AAUP champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty and staff to promote economic security and quality education.

please contact the president of Texas State University, Kelly Damphousse, and urge him to respect academic freedom and the first amendment and restore Professor Tom Alter to teaching.

president@txstate.edu, 512-245-2121.

aaup-texas.org/blog?blog=y

I'll be putting this into the for-profits lecture slides (where we will be engaging with the good professor's work)

Vanderbilt Faculty Senate Votes Overwhelmingly to Oppose Trump Loyalty Oath The Vanderbilt Faculty Senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution opposing President Trump’s proposed “Compact for Excellence in Higher Education.” The resolution, citing concerns …

Vanderbilt AAUP press release about the Vanderbilt Faculty Senate voting overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution opposing the President's proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education as an unconstitutional & illegal infringement on rights & freedoms.

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LFG

let’s have a conference

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Looking forward to the NYT publishing my op ed why private equity’s abolition is badly needed lol

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