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Davarian Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social · 5d

What the fuck is going on?!?! We need to stand up for all our colleagues and comrades now!

Davarian Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social · 7d

It was great to build with @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social...wondeful to watch the momentum for people power pick up and grow 💪🏿

UChicago AAUP @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks to everyone who came to “Beyond the Quad” to kick off the year with a discussion of how to build solidarity on a wider basis in the face of gentrification, Medicaid cuts, and more. And thanks especially to panelists @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social , Dixon Romeo, JP Murray, and Cathy Cohen

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Chris Kromm @chriskromm.bsky.social · 12d

🌟 TODAY 🌟 What Does Duke Owe Durham? Forum with author @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social about why universities should support workers and communities. 2pm, Asbury United Methodist, Durham. Sponsored by @southernstudies.bsky.social + @durhamrising.bsky.social
www.southernstudies.org/davarianbald...

What Does Duke Owe Durham?

The Institute for Southern Studies and Durham Rising invite you to a talk and discussion with award-winning author DAVARIAN BALDWIN Friday, Sept. 26 | 2-3pm Asbury United Methodist Church | 806 Claren...

www.southernstudies.org

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Davarian Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social · 13d

Today the mighty #DurhamRising marches for better relations between Duke + Durham. 🗣️✊🏿

Tomorrow I’ll place these struggles in a broader national context.

This work isn’t just critique—it’s about community building + imagining new futures.

www.newsobserver.com/news/local/c...

‘What does Duke owe Durham?’ Rally and talk to critique university’s impact

“I feel like Duke has been exploiting us for years,” said one Duke employee.

www.newsobserver.com

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 15d

#GoodNews

smartcitiesresearchlab.com

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Chris Kromm @chriskromm.bsky.social · 15d

What Does Duke Owe Durham? Free talk with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social on Friday, Sept. 26, 2-3pm at Asbury United Methodist in Durham. Sponsored by @southernstudies.bsky.social and @durhamrising.bsky.social. More information and RSVP: www.southernstudies.org/davarianbald...

What Does Duke Owe Durham?

The Institute for Southern Studies and Durham Rising invite you to a talk and discussion with award-winning author DAVARIAN BALDWIN Friday, Sept. 26 | 2-3pm Asbury United Methodist Church | 806 Claren...

www.southernstudies.org

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Davarian Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you so much...all the way back to BMHS 🙏🏿

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Davarian Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social · 15d

Big news: the Smart Cities Research Lab website is live!

smartcitiesresearchlab.com

Since 2021, we’ve been working on equitable community development—everywhere from New Haven + Durham to Rotterdam. Next stop: Bangkok.

Blessed to keep building. 🙌🏿

#SmarterCities #DevelopmentWithoutDisplacement

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Davarian Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social · 15d

Big news: the Smart Cities Research Lab website is live!

Since 2021, we’ve been working on equitable community development—everywhere from New Haven + Durham to Rotterdam. Next stop: Bangkok.

Blessed to keep building. 🙌🏿

#SmarterCities #DevelopmentWithoutDisplacement

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Davarian Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social · 16d

Wow—what a time at the first annual Reparations Summit in St. Louis!

💡 Conversations on higher ed’s harms + strategies for repair

✊🏿 Scholars, organizers, descendant communities nationwide

🙏🏿Thanks to @RobinProudie + #DSLUE for hosting this powerful gathering

#FromAcknowledgmentToAction

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Davarian Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social · 16d

So thrilled to be back in Durham to help strategize and build people power, so that our wealthiest local institutions truly lean into community responsibility beyond symbolic gestures...let's go ✊🏿!!!

Institute for Southern Studies @southernstudies.bsky.social · 16d

What Does Duke Owe Durham? Join us Friday 9/26 at 2pm for a forum featuring @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social about how Duke University can support workers and the community. Visit here for more info and to RSVP: www.southernstudies.org/davarianbald... @durhamrising.bsky.social

What Does Duke Owe Durham?

The Institute for Southern Studies and Durham Rising invite you to a talk and discussion with award-winning author DAVARIAN BALDWIN Friday, Sept. 26 | 2-3pm Asbury United Methodist Church | 806 Claren...

www.southernstudies.org

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Davarian Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social · 28d

Happy to return to my other home and chop it up at the UChicago Center for Contemporary Theory and also build with @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social

All my Chicagoland peoples, please come thru on September 30...this Higher Ed crisis is deeper than "corporatization."

ccct.uchicago.edu/events/beyon...

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 29d

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

green and yellow cover of University Keywords, ed by Andy Hines

Table of contents for University Keywords

University: An Introduction, Andy Hines

Academic Freedom, Jennifer Ruth and Ellen Schrecker
Adjunct, Heather Steffen
Admissions, Scott Gelber
Alternative Institutions, Andy Hines and Eli Meyerhoff
Athletics, Wayne L. Black
Board of Trustees, Asheesh Siddique Kapur
Budget, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Campus, Davarian Baldwin
Classroom, Richard Simpson
Critical University Studies, Rana M. Jaleel, Isaac Kamola, and Heather Steffen
Debt, Eleni Schirmer and Jason Wozniak
Degree, Christopher Newfield
Discipline, Vineeta Singh
Diversity, p.s. kehal
EdTech, Annie McClanahan and Louise McCune
Endowment, Dennis M. Hogan
Entrepreneurship, Jesse Goldstein

Table of contents for university keywords

Fiction, Jeffrey J. Williams
Legislation, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Noncitizen Student, Abigail Boggs
Police, Yalile Suriel and Grace Watkins
Ranking, Jelena Brankovic and Stefan Wilbers
Revenue, Dan Nemser and Brian Whitener
Risk Management, Mattie Armstrong-Price
Sustainability, Kai Bosworth, Jesse Goldstein, Andy Hines, and Eli Meyerhoff
Title IX, Rana M. Jaleel
Union, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein

Appendix: Questions to Consider for Composing a Keywords Entry

Contributor Bios
Acknowledgments
Index

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Davarian Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social · Sep 7

Hall of Fame weekend in Springfield...everybody outside.

THE #MayaMoore!!

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Sep 7

Highly recommend "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" by Davarian L. Baldwin.

If you live in a city with a big college, you will notice what author Hattie Whitehead describes in her book & musical about Linnentown— universities taking more and more land.

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Davarian Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social · Sep 7

🎶 Linnentown—The Musical is back in Athens! The community was demolished for UGA dorms. Now it lives on.

Honored to also lecture at UGA + see the new street named Linnentown. ✊🏿 #RenewalProject #UrbanJustice #CommunityPower

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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · Aug 29

Labor activists in coalition of local unions and labor-adjacent orgs. This was new, including the whole workforce of higher ed: faculty, clerical, health care, custodians, librarians, counselors, IT, buildings maintenance, landscapers, dining services, etc.
@higheredlabor.bsky.social

Raising HELU, Wall to Wall and Coast to Coast

When Higher Education Labor United was proposed in 2021, the major issues facing higher education were rising tuition, student debt, widespread reliance on contingent faculty, attacks on tenure, threa...

www.dollarsandsense.org

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Davarian Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social · Aug 29

#DurhamRising is calling on Duke to act responsibly toward Durham. I spoke with Facing South on how this fits into a national wave of community action. Proud my #SmartCitiesResearchLab can support. 👇🏿

www.facingsouth.org/2025/08/what...

What do universities owe communities? An interview with Davarian Baldwin

At a critical moment for higher education, a leading urban scholar argues universities need to be doing more — not less — to support and invest in the communities where they are based.

www.facingsouth.org

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thank you, Davarian! So glad you’re part of it. Can’t wait to see what possibilities this book creates

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Davarian Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social · Aug 20

Beautiful work from beautiful minds. Thanks @andyhines.bsky.social for corralling us and assembling #UniversityKeywords.

Get yours NOW!!

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Davarian Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social · Jun 30

This is also my hometown and how is the image of Beloit so damn white? If you are from or have been near Beloit then you know the sponsors worked very hard to construct this racially curated image

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Christine Hatfield @christine.21st.show · Jun 9

On today's @21st.show, we talked about a new analysis of racial disparities in Illinois campus traffic stops.

Our guests: reporter Nicole Jeanine Johnson, Khadine Bennett of ACLU Illinois, criminal justice professor Miltonette Craig and American studies professor @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social.

Why are police on Illinois college campuses stopping Black drivers at high rates?

YouTube video by Illinois Public Media

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Social Mission Alliance @socialmission.bsky.social · Jun 5

✍️ Mission Moment – Founding story or moment of impact.
Last year’s conference was a lasting moment in our history, and we can’t wait to convene again in 2026! Until then, we’re listening back to Dr. Davarian Baldwin’s keynote presentation @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social

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Davarian Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social · Apr 28

Hey!! If you are near Hartford, CT, THIS WEDNESDAY, come to the iconic Artists Collective space for great Caribbean food and a Screening of the 4th episode of @pbs.org series Great Migrations. A panel will follow discussing the Hartford connections!

1200 Albany Ave @ 6pm...Come thru

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · Apr 18

We are the power that we've been waiting for. We need to be building out the university and spaces of commoning and collective collaboration that we seek. . . .

The vision is not to defend higher education. The vision is to advance it. – @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social

scholarsforsj.bsky.social @scholarsforsj.bsky.social · Apr 18

🚨 "WE ARE THE POWER WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR"

@actioninhighered.bsky.social mobilized nationwide. Faculty, students & workers united to end repression & fight for education that serves the people.

📢 More than a protest—a movement. Join us.

scholarsforsocialjustice.org

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