Erin Eger
@erineger.bsky.social
Higher Education Administrator | Researcher | Teacher
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I wrote a @chronicle.com essay on the financial strategies that research universities have available to survive the Trump administration's funding cuts. None of them are great, but they're likely better than agreeing to a consent decree.
Opinion | Can Harvard, Columbia, and Other Universities Survive Trump’s Cuts?
There are a handful of viable financial strategies. They all have downsides.
www.chronicle.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I wrote a @chronicle.com essay on the financial strategies that research universities have available to survive the Trump administration's funding cuts. None of them are great, but they're likely better than agreeing to a consent decree.
Congrats to Harvard for hopping over the low bar of standing up to political overreach.
apnews.com/article/harv...
apnews.com/article/harv...
Harvard's challenge to Trump administration could test limits of government power
On one side is Harvard, the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university, with a brand so powerful that its name is synonymous with prestige.
apnews.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Congrats to Harvard for hopping over the low bar of standing up to political overreach.
apnews.com/article/harv...
apnews.com/article/harv...
This is the way.
Focus on the core mission of producing and disseminating knowledge. Forget rankings, donors, and amenities.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
Spend the endowment.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...
#HigherEd
Focus on the core mission of producing and disseminating knowledge. Forget rankings, donors, and amenities.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
Spend the endowment.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...
#HigherEd
Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare (Gift Article)
It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is the way.
Focus on the core mission of producing and disseminating knowledge. Forget rankings, donors, and amenities.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
Spend the endowment.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...
#HigherEd
Focus on the core mission of producing and disseminating knowledge. Forget rankings, donors, and amenities.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
Spend the endowment.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...
#HigherEd
Reposted by Erin Eger
This is a recipe for financially ruining U.S. research universities: 1) Vastly and rapidly reduce funding for research and infrastructure; 2) Scare international students, whose tuition helps fund PhD students (as TAs), away. These folks know exactly what they're doing.
April 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This is a recipe for financially ruining U.S. research universities: 1) Vastly and rapidly reduce funding for research and infrastructure; 2) Scare international students, whose tuition helps fund PhD students (as TAs), away. These folks know exactly what they're doing.
Rick Steves keeping it simple:
“When you hear them framing somebody good into somebody bad, speak up. Don’t allow it.”
“Institutions are public wealth.”
youtu.be/86hnPrWozUo
“When you hear them framing somebody good into somebody bad, speak up. Don’t allow it.”
“Institutions are public wealth.”
youtu.be/86hnPrWozUo
Hands Off National Day of Protest - Edmonds, WA
YouTube video by R
youtu.be
April 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Rick Steves keeping it simple:
“When you hear them framing somebody good into somebody bad, speak up. Don’t allow it.”
“Institutions are public wealth.”
youtu.be/86hnPrWozUo
“When you hear them framing somebody good into somebody bad, speak up. Don’t allow it.”
“Institutions are public wealth.”
youtu.be/86hnPrWozUo
Protest today in SF. #HandsOff #SanFrancisco
April 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Protest today in SF. #HandsOff #SanFrancisco
Finally on Bluesky! I’m a researcher and higher ed professional. I earned my Ph.D. in Education at the University of Washington. I study how institutional characteristics along with social, economic, and political contexts affect change in colleges and universities over time. #HigherEd #AcademicSky
March 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Finally on Bluesky! I’m a researcher and higher ed professional. I earned my Ph.D. in Education at the University of Washington. I study how institutional characteristics along with social, economic, and political contexts affect change in colleges and universities over time. #HigherEd #AcademicSky