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Anna Kornbluh

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Dec 5

elated! and more than a little embarrassed! to be included on Art Review's @artreview.bsky.social Power 100 list for 2024! thank you to all the art inspirations, and everyone reading and teaching Immediacy.
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Power 100

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24m

week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 52m

IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1h

MIT President Sally Kornbluth just issued a statement to the campus community saying NO to Trump’s authoritarian compact

“And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”

Dear Madam Secretary,
I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters.
I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education.
As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples:
• MIT prides itself on rewarding merit.
Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute
was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.

• MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available
to any American with an internet
connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly
10%.
• We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree.

These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law.
The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific
funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that tree marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences.
Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.

As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the
U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people.
We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth
CC
Ms. May Mailman
Mr. Vincent Haley

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1h

join a coalition of University of Chicago unions Weds Oct 15th at 2pm!

rally for higher ed Levi Hall / Main Quad

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 2h

As Chicago continues to be the epicenter of the fight for democracy, I'm looking forward to talking to journalist @meredithshiner.com today on @lincolnsquare.media. She joins me LIVE at 12pm CT. I hope you'll tune in.

It's the democracy, Stupid with host Edwin Eisendrath and Guest journalist Meredith Shiner. Lincoln Square Live Friday at 12CT

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 4h

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 5h

www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

Duwain E. Hughes Distinguished Chair - HigherEdJobs

Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

www.higheredjobs.com

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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 5h

Sunrise coming. Time to rise up! Eh, @higheredlabor.bsky.social @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social ?

actionnetwork.org/petitions/un...

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

actionnetwork.org

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Jacob Henry Leveton @jacobhleveton.bsky.social · 12h

New on the Loyola AAUP Blog:

Loyola AAUP stands with SEIU Local 73 as negotiations stall.

Faculty working without contracts deserve solidarity, not silence.

#LoyolaChicago #AAUP #SEIULocal73 #AcademicFreedom #Solidarity

Loyola Chicago AAUP stands with SEIU Local 73 — The Loyola University Chicago Chapter of the American Association of University Professors

by LUC AAUP Executive Council Officers SEIU Local 73 represents non-tenure-track full- and part-time faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and the English Language Learning Program (ELL...

www.aaup-luc.org

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 12h

Mark Bray and Yesenia Barragan, and the family, have safely embarked on their trip to Spain after being questioned by DHS.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12h

i could fund the start up economist if he'll accept my basement as residence

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12h

ok longform this theory

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12h

go go go

Gabriel San Román @gsanroman2.bsky.social · 18h

My union—the LA Times Guild—has authorized a strike with the support of 85% of our membership.

This comes after years of brutal layoffs and no cost-of-living raises since 2021.

Next up: we bargain. But if we have to strike, we will 🪧
laist.com/news/la-time...

LA Times union votes to authorize strike for first time ever

The L.A. Times Guild has been negotiating over their contract with management for three years.

laist.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12h

we need a midwest heartland best city common good economy think tank

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12h

are you buds with alex?! and when are you both coming over for dinner and pickle drinks

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12h

yes, for sure

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12h

very! gin, pickle, lime, soda, what's not good
sipping pickle brine, or pickle brine back with the right bourbon or gin, also great (and good for your muscles)

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12h

pickle ricky pickle back free chicago

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16h

original Dutch vanishing? or Blair witch ?

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 16h

Perry: "I see no credible evidence there is a danger of rebellion in the state of Illinois."

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 17h

Wharton spans then

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18h

what time period? contemporary of hers?

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19h

Every day it's just helicopters all day long now and people are somehow still unsure whether to call this an occupation

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Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social · 19h

An actual opposition party would run this on a loop in every conceivable space.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 20h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 19h

gonna commission him to letterpress this but make it femme me

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 19h

it’s very true. Trying to decide if both gissing and James can fit in