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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 1d

ACLS has released a statement regarding the White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”: bit.ly/3IviMig

We call for the immediate rejection of the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”...No institution that is committed to the free pursuit of knowledge should submit to the degradation of autonomy and academic freedom contained in it. -ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

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Kris Olds @oldskris.bsky.social · 7d

The Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan certainly does get around...
www.oxfordnorth.com/news-events/...

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Kris Olds @oldskris.bsky.social · 8d

"The University of Chicago, renowned for producing world-leading research in economics and finance, is selling a prized research centre as it struggles with heavy debt and lacklustre endowment returns" www.ft.com/content/4501... via @financialtimes.com

UChicago sells prized institute amid high debt and low returns

Endowment of famed finance school posted weak investment gains as it borrowed heavily to invest in research capacity

www.ft.com

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Kris Olds @oldskris.bsky.social · 12d

As Trump Tries to Limit Foreign Workers, China Woos Them. A new visa for science and engineering graduates is part of China’s effort to establish itself as the world leader in science and technology. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/w...

As Trump Tightens Visas, China Woos World’s Science Graduates

www.nytimes.com

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Kris Olds @oldskris.bsky.social · 12d

Austria hails 'brain gain' in luring 25 academics away from US after cuts www.reuters.com/world/austri...

Austria hails 'brain gain' in luring 25 academics away from US after cuts

Austria has lured what it calls 25 "top researchers" away from U.S. institutions including Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton with grants set up in response to the Trump administration's funding cuts targeting universities.

www.reuters.com

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Kris Olds @oldskris.bsky.social · 13d

Vanderbilt Eyes National Expansion
The university plans to build a campus in Florida, has leased a site in New York City and aims to establish a foothold in California in its quest to grow beyond Nashville.
www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...

Vanderbilt Eyes National Expansion

The university plans to build a campus in Florida, has leased a site in New York City and aims to establish a foothold in California in its quest to grow beyond Nashville.

www.insidehighered.com

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Kris Olds @oldskris.bsky.social · Aug 15

UChicago Reducing, Freezing Ph.D. Admissions for Multiple Humanities [& Public Policy] Programs www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...

UChicago Freezing Ph.D. Admissions for Multiple Programs

The indebted institution tasked committees of faculty and staff with planning for changes. But this week, a dean forged ahead and announced broad cuts. Two other units are also pausing admissions.

www.insidehighered.com

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Kris Olds @oldskris.bsky.social · Aug 13

National self-harm viewed via one prominent US university: www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

ASU Projects 18% Drop in International Student Enrollment

Arizona State University typically welcomes over 17,900 international students to its four campuses each year, but this fall, due to a variety of complications, the university expects only 14,600 inte...

www.insidehighered.com

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Kris Olds @oldskris.bsky.social · Aug 11

The Harvard-Trained Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fight Against Top Universities www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

The Harvard-Trained Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fight Against Top Universities

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · Aug 8

The Commerce Department threatening to take over Harvard's patents shows the extent to which the federal government is trying to pressure the university into a settlement. They are trying everything possible. (gift link)

Trump Administration Threatens to Take Over Harvard’s Patents

The move is the latest escalation in the White House’s battle with the Ivy League school.

www.wsj.com

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · Aug 8

New executive order puts all grants under political control arstechnica.com/science/2025...

New executive order puts all grants under political control

All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.

arstechnica.com

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Kris Olds @oldskris.bsky.social · Aug 7

Fluctuating tariffs exacerbate US science funding woes pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

Fluctuating tariffs exacerbate US science funding woes

For new faculty and others ordering big-ticket items, the import taxes can be a gut punch.

pubs.aip.org

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Ben, A.D. 1972 @franzferdinand2.bsky.social · Aug 4

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Aug 3

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 4

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...

Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility

Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

www.wthr.com

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PROFS @profsuwmadison.bsky.social · Jul 31

Wisconsin GOP Congressman Tom Tiffany introduced a bill that would eliminate the exception that allows colleges and universities to hire an unlimited number of specialized international workers as part of the H-1B visa program. Tiffany said the practice "hands good-paying jobs to foreign workers..."

Rep. Tom Tiffany targets visa program exception that UW uses to hire for hard-to-fill jobs

U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany seeks to end an exception in the H-1B visa program that allows universities to hire an unlimited number of specialized workers from overseas.

www.jsonline.com

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Kris Olds @oldskris.bsky.social · Jul 29

Nashville-based Vanderbilt University considering establishing a campus in San Francisco: www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Vanderbilt Reportedly Considering a San Francisco Campus

Vanderbilt University is in talks with the city of San Francisco to establish a campus there, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. A Vanderbilt spokesperson confirmed to the Chronicle that the univer...

www.insidehighered.com

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Jul 23

Me literally yesterday when NASA employees did this

www.splinter.com/catastrophic...

This is where the federal scientific enterprise has landed after a mere half year of the second Trump administration: employees at science-related agencies, at great personal risk given leadership’s vindictive nature, yelling publicly about that leadership’s ongoing attempts to ruin just about all of it.

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · Jul 18

4 Things to Know About In-State Tuition Benefits for Undocumented Students

The federal government is suing states that offer in-state tuition to noncitizens. These state laws were once bipartisan efforts. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/44E4zrw

U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi stands at a podium and speaks into a microphone. She is a blonde white woman wearing a black suit.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · Jul 18

Nice. I worked at Duke for more than seven years. Don’t get me started.

www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

Duke School of Medicine plans salary cuts for tenured faculty who do not meet grant expectations

Set to go in effect in 2026, the proposed policy would apply to the School’s basic sciences units. These units rely heavily on grants from the National Institutes of Health, which have been increasing...

www.dukechronicle.com

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jul 18

Threats to the Fed go beyond firing Powell https://on.ft.com/4nV9CeF | opinion

Threats to the Fed go beyond firing Powell

Curtis Yarvin’s ideas are going ever more mainstream in Trump’s Washington — and investors should be worried

on.ft.com

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Kris Olds @oldskris.bsky.social · Jul 18

University of California fund ditches hedge funds with scathing rebuke www.ft.com/content/1674... via @financialtimes.com

University of California fund ditches hedge funds with scathing rebuke

Chief investment officer says stocks and bonds would have prevented ‘all the drama’

www.ft.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 15

This guy gets it
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

“Our institutions are not acting as if American democracy is under threat,” Donald Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, contended in an email. It has become routine, Moynihan wrote,

for Trump to fire people in independent agencies or civil servants, or to impound funds and even close agencies. All of these things were widely assumed to be illegal. While the courts are not making definitive rulings on such powers, they are allowing Trump to exercise them. Maybe they will clip Trump’s wings later, but in the meantime enormous damage will be done and undoing that damage will be extraordinarily difficult. For example, ending U.S.A.I.D. without congressional action is illegal, but it is happening, and millions will die as a result.

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Kris Olds @oldskris.bsky.social · Jul 15

USC signals layoffs as deficit surpasses $200 million amid 'volatile external environment' www.latimes.com/california/s...

USC signals layoffs as deficit surpasses $200 million amid 'volatile external environment'

Layoffs will be implemented at USC, interim President Beong-Soo Kim said in a letter to the university's faculty and staff on Monday.

www.latimes.com

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Jul 14

"Universities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers + info mgmt systems, w/ spiraling costs... Understanding [the uni as an infrastructure stresses] that the tech it chooses to adopt follow a colonial + extractivist model...

CM Vol 25 CfP University as Infrastructure

Culture Machine Vol. 25 Call for Papers: University as Infrastructure Guest-edited by: Alexandra Anikina, Johannes Bruder, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Stephen Cornford, Kwame Phillips & Geoff Cox …

culturemachine.net

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