andy hines
@andyhines.bsky.social
political economy of higher ed | socialist and communist education | Black studies | author of OUTSIDE LITERARY STUDIES, editor of UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS
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andy hines
@andyhines.bsky.social
· Sep 9
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.
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I'm overjoyed by the publication of this open-access journal issue themed around my book, Beyond Education. I'm honored to see these brilliant contributions to how we think about intersecting struggles across K-12, higher ed, and beyond.
works.swarthmore.edu/critedpol/
The contents include:
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works.swarthmore.edu/critedpol/
The contents include:
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December 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I'm overjoyed by the publication of this open-access journal issue themed around my book, Beyond Education. I'm honored to see these brilliant contributions to how we think about intersecting struggles across K-12, higher ed, and beyond.
works.swarthmore.edu/critedpol/
The contents include:
(1/5)
works.swarthmore.edu/critedpol/
The contents include:
(1/5)
an excellent essay. to add to its many openings for solidarity, i point to how this particular transformation of higher education is not limited to the US and that we have much to learn from similar right populist overhauling of universities in Brazil and Argentina under Bolsinaro and Milei.
I wasn’t sure they were going to publish this. So good for them.
The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.
All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.
www.chronicle.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
an excellent essay. to add to its many openings for solidarity, i point to how this particular transformation of higher education is not limited to the US and that we have much to learn from similar right populist overhauling of universities in Brazil and Argentina under Bolsinaro and Milei.
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I wasn’t sure they were going to publish this. So good for them.
The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.
All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.
www.chronicle.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I wasn’t sure they were going to publish this. So good for them.
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This thread compiles what happens to be some of the best Marxist cultural criticism of the year (including a few I'd missed!) by the inimitable @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social
Ah, 2025. Not the greatest. TBQH what keeps me going are my little projects--the opportunity to read and write. I got to engage with some great and important books this year. On Immediacy (and being Very Online):
Autofiction Writers of the World, Unite! - Public Books
Immediacy, here, is an aesthetics of ambivalent aspiration, within a hierarchically ordered and immobilizing class- and race-based cultural system.
www.publicbooks.org
December 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This thread compiles what happens to be some of the best Marxist cultural criticism of the year (including a few I'd missed!) by the inimitable @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social
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Ah, 2025. Not the greatest. TBQH what keeps me going are my little projects--the opportunity to read and write. I got to engage with some great and important books this year. On Immediacy (and being Very Online):
Autofiction Writers of the World, Unite! - Public Books
Immediacy, here, is an aesthetics of ambivalent aspiration, within a hierarchically ordered and immobilizing class- and race-based cultural system.
www.publicbooks.org
December 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Ah, 2025. Not the greatest. TBQH what keeps me going are my little projects--the opportunity to read and write. I got to engage with some great and important books this year. On Immediacy (and being Very Online):
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Echoes of Gompers believing getting on board early with the then-emerging big business elite's utopian claims about technological progress would protect his members.
We know students, like the rest of the world, are using AI. Teachers need to be equipped to deal w/all the issues AI creates. Our approach starts with maximizing safety & privacy and empowering educators to make educational decisions, so AI tools can benefit not harm www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
AI has become the norm for students. Teachers are playing catch-up.
At a New York City training session, educators explored how artificial intelligence could support teaching while also discussing their concerns around the technology.
www.nbcnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Echoes of Gompers believing getting on board early with the then-emerging big business elite's utopian claims about technological progress would protect his members.
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Absolutely stunning that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft were able to buy off an entire teachers’ union for just $23 million.
We know students, like the rest of the world, are using AI. Teachers need to be equipped to deal w/all the issues AI creates. Our approach starts with maximizing safety & privacy and empowering educators to make educational decisions, so AI tools can benefit not harm www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
AI has become the norm for students. Teachers are playing catch-up.
At a New York City training session, educators explored how artificial intelligence could support teaching while also discussing their concerns around the technology.
www.nbcnews.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Absolutely stunning that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft were able to buy off an entire teachers’ union for just $23 million.
Sarah made an incredible index for University Keywords and highly highly recommend her work. What a gift to work with her!
Hi all: reupping my perennial call for indexing and editing clients for Spring / Summer 2026. It might be my last year doing this work, so get it while it's hot! Email at sosment@uchicago.edu for rate and availability. Feel free to share!
December 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Sarah made an incredible index for University Keywords and highly highly recommend her work. What a gift to work with her!
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Hi all: reupping my perennial call for indexing and editing clients for Spring / Summer 2026. It might be my last year doing this work, so get it while it's hot! Email at sosment@uchicago.edu for rate and availability. Feel free to share!
December 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Hi all: reupping my perennial call for indexing and editing clients for Spring / Summer 2026. It might be my last year doing this work, so get it while it's hot! Email at sosment@uchicago.edu for rate and availability. Feel free to share!
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Great news! @llassabe.bsky.social and I signed a contract for our edited volume, Degrees of Liberation: Public History, Campus Activism, and the Fight for Educational Justice. The book shows how campus activism drives change and advances public history work with communities. @sunypress.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Great news! @llassabe.bsky.social and I signed a contract for our edited volume, Degrees of Liberation: Public History, Campus Activism, and the Fight for Educational Justice. The book shows how campus activism drives change and advances public history work with communities. @sunypress.bsky.social
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Change in employment since Trump took office, by sector. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
December 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Change in employment since Trump took office, by sector. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
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Hey y'all! This week Olive Demar and @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social look at the university’s role as a colonial and capitalist apparatus, arguing that we need to free education from the institutions that betray and abandon it.
spectrejournal.com/reckoning-wi...
spectrejournal.com/reckoning-wi...
Reckoning with the Alma Mater – Spectre Journal
Olive Demar and Eli Meyerhoff look at the university's role as a colonial and capitalist apparatus, arguing that we need to free education from the institutions that betray and abandon it.
spectrejournal.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Hey y'all! This week Olive Demar and @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social look at the university’s role as a colonial and capitalist apparatus, arguing that we need to free education from the institutions that betray and abandon it.
spectrejournal.com/reckoning-wi...
spectrejournal.com/reckoning-wi...
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December 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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It’s been fun while it lasted: “Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students demonstrate basic competency in artificial intelligence starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.”
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads
Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students meet an AI competency requirement starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.
www.forbes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It’s been fun while it lasted: “Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students demonstrate basic competency in artificial intelligence starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.”
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
December 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
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So grateful for the amazing graduate students who wrote this 'Open Letter on The New School’s “Restructuring” Plans', published on @eflux.bsky.social (including link with petition to condemn admin!) @newschoolaaup.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/notes/678343...
Open Letter on The New School’s “Restructuring” Plans - Notes - e-flux
Signed by hundreds of faculty, students, and supporters, this letter refutes the claim that a radical “restructuring” of the The New School for Social Research is financially necessary.
www.e-flux.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
So grateful for the amazing graduate students who wrote this 'Open Letter on The New School’s “Restructuring” Plans', published on @eflux.bsky.social (including link with petition to condemn admin!) @newschoolaaup.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/notes/678343...
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When I was younger, I really bought the line organizing was about something called "material interests" and that any partying, socializing, decorating, gaming, whatever was, at best, a doorway to the real fight. But it's the whole fight! We packed the room for a dang cookie swap during finals.
December 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
When I was younger, I really bought the line organizing was about something called "material interests" and that any partying, socializing, decorating, gaming, whatever was, at best, a doorway to the real fight. But it's the whole fight! We packed the room for a dang cookie swap during finals.
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Excited and proud to share my new essay in ELH! “The Political Climate: Ecocriticism and the Apocalyptic Tone” focuses on John Guillory and Amitav Ghosh as examples of internal and external narrative contextualizations of a crisis in literary criticism muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
December 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Excited and proud to share my new essay in ELH! “The Political Climate: Ecocriticism and the Apocalyptic Tone” focuses on John Guillory and Amitav Ghosh as examples of internal and external narrative contextualizations of a crisis in literary criticism muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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This -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.
Proposed Model Bill Would Change College Tenure, Teaching, & Research
Three conservative groups have proposed model legislation that would dramatically change faculty tenure paths, teaching loads, research activities and hiring authority
www.forbes.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.
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Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
www.chronicle.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
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Thx friends @adamtooze.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, @alybatt.bsky.social, @stefeich.bsky.social, @danielloick.bsky.social & others who signed condemning malicious cuts at The New School @newschoolaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org Join them! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
TNS Community and Supporters Demand: Stop The Cuts!
To President Towers and The New School Board of Trustees: We, the undersigned members of The New School community and supporters, write to demand you put an immediate halt to planned downsizing, layo...
docs.google.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Thx friends @adamtooze.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, @alybatt.bsky.social, @stefeich.bsky.social, @danielloick.bsky.social & others who signed condemning malicious cuts at The New School @newschoolaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org Join them! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Spotted at Red Emma's , MD. Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan (STICH, UNSTICH) presented POETRY IN GENERAL on Nov. 15. buff.ly/CfQK5oh #ShopIndie #ShopLocal #SupportSmallBusiness #SupportIndieBookstores
December 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Spotted at Red Emma's , MD. Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan (STICH, UNSTICH) presented POETRY IN GENERAL on Nov. 15. buff.ly/CfQK5oh #ShopIndie #ShopLocal #SupportSmallBusiness #SupportIndieBookstores
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"...not being political enough"
Some of us were not naive and understood that some folks would sacrifice everything to resegregate. I do wonder if anyone plans to listen to the people who sniffed out these bad-faith arguments for what they were, as it was happening.
Some of us were not naive and understood that some folks would sacrifice everything to resegregate. I do wonder if anyone plans to listen to the people who sniffed out these bad-faith arguments for what they were, as it was happening.
![Screenshot of the article which reads: If anything, Welsh suffered from not being political enough.
“Mark is pretty moderate,” said an influential A&M donor and alum who asked not to be named because of their continued relationship with the school. “I think that he was just like many of us in being naive about just how much the far-right was going to come after [DEI]. It wasn’t going to go away, until it was too late.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ozma3timm5c32fa7bimb4zaj/bafkreihiik4rkzn24tmz55ckfccnqygzzkjb3dizdo5yfrv7ivu65qdb2a@jpeg)
December 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
"...not being political enough"
Some of us were not naive and understood that some folks would sacrifice everything to resegregate. I do wonder if anyone plans to listen to the people who sniffed out these bad-faith arguments for what they were, as it was happening.
Some of us were not naive and understood that some folks would sacrifice everything to resegregate. I do wonder if anyone plans to listen to the people who sniffed out these bad-faith arguments for what they were, as it was happening.