Kelly Grotke

thanks very much for alerting me to this, Matt. And I will keep it in mind every time I hear the words "fiduciary duty" with respect to pensions, endowments, etc.

Synthetic Risk Transfer is a financial innovation you probably haven’t heard of, the specific variety of securitization which is beginning to look like the Credit Default Swap of the next financial crisis.

Philanthrocapitalism U Podcast Episode · The American Vandal · S11 E7 · 1h 34m

Listening to this for the first time since it came out, partially to review my own research on Vista Equity, now a seeming target of kleptocratic antitrust suit.

But, omg, @ajdouglas.bsky.social, Jared Loggins, @kgrotke.bsky.social Crystal Sanders, Jelani Favors, & @bakerdphd.bsky.social are 🔥🔥🔥.

Opinion | Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much.

“It’s not that traditional liberal arts is out of step with student demand. Instead, it’s out of step with the priorities values desires of a powerful board of trustees with no apparent commitment to liberal education, an administrative class.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

Reckoning with the Reckoning in Higher Ed Universities' decisions in dealing with the 2008 financial crisis laid the foundation for the current financial and social crisis in higher education.

See also @kgrotke.bsky.social

lpeproject.org/blog/reckoni...

Reckoning with the Reckoning in Higher Ed Universities' decisions in dealing with the 2008 financial crisis laid the foundation for the current financial and social crisis in higher education.

PRE-EXISTING CONDITION 1: ENDOWMENTS AND FINANCIALIZATION or as we say $$ Follow the Money $$
PRE-EXISTING CONDITION 2: STEM VS THE LIBERAL ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Thanks @kgrotke.bsky.social

The Return | Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Yasmine Seale My darling Sammour, After years of silence, I began writing you a letter last October. I gave it the title “Guardian of Hope,” since your absence is bound

Yassin al-Haj Saleh on returning to Syria, translated by Yasmine Seale buff.ly/4dIQndz

Opinion | Mahmoud Khalil: What does my detention by ICE say about America? A democracy for some is no democracy at all.

We’d advocate for Mahmoud Khalil even if he was a witless jerk, but his letter from ICE detention will be, when we get through the fascist weather, a canonical document not of that which he calls “democracy of convenience” but the real democracy yet to be made. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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We've got Grotke @kgrotke.bsky.social and Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social

Thanks, Eileen! Using it now :) nice to see you here as well

The silences produced by the generic framing of Trump as authoritarian, or Trump v. the constitution are not merely happenstance. Many of those defending universities are uncomfortable naming the crackdowns on pro-Palestinian, Israel-critical speech that have helped shape the Trump administration's most aggressive attacks on academia to date. Matters are not helped by the fact that the University administration makes a show of actually embracing the charges as a reasonable description of the situation on campus and a matter of the utmost urgency. Rather than addressing this concession head on, the resistance sidesteps it by aligning Trump with Erdogan or Orban, or treating him as a threat to the 1st Amendment. The result is an incomplete and incoherent account of how we have ended up where we are at.

Great essay by @adamtooze.bsky.social that explores why Palestine is so central to US campus politics. This section is worth highlighting, as it articulates the shortcomings of framing anti-Palestine repression primarily through discourses of free speech or Democracy v Authoritarianism (link below)

Colleges issue billions of dollars in debt!