Kelly Grotke
@kgrotke.bsky.social
Reader, writer, historian. Working on finance, endowments, higher ed. Publications at TAP, Inside Higher Ed, Academe and elsewhere. Have been called "one of the great minds of the 18th c", still trying to catch up.
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Synthetic Risk Transfer is a financial innovation you probably haven’t heard of, the specific variety of securitization which is beginning to look like the Credit Default Swap of the next financial crisis.
November 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Synthetic Risk Transfer is a financial innovation you probably haven’t heard of, the specific variety of securitization which is beginning to look like the Credit Default Swap of the next financial crisis.
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Listening to this for the first time since it came out, partially to review my own research on Vista Equity, now a seeming target of kleptocratic antitrust suit.
But, omg, @ajdouglas.bsky.social, Jared Loggins, @kgrotke.bsky.social Crystal Sanders, Jelani Favors, & @bakerdphd.bsky.social are 🔥🔥🔥.
But, omg, @ajdouglas.bsky.social, Jared Loggins, @kgrotke.bsky.social Crystal Sanders, Jelani Favors, & @bakerdphd.bsky.social are 🔥🔥🔥.
Philanthrocapitalism U
Podcast Episode · The American Vandal · S11 E7 · 1h 34m
podcasts.apple.com
October 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Listening to this for the first time since it came out, partially to review my own research on Vista Equity, now a seeming target of kleptocratic antitrust suit.
But, omg, @ajdouglas.bsky.social, Jared Loggins, @kgrotke.bsky.social Crystal Sanders, Jelani Favors, & @bakerdphd.bsky.social are 🔥🔥🔥.
But, omg, @ajdouglas.bsky.social, Jared Loggins, @kgrotke.bsky.social Crystal Sanders, Jelani Favors, & @bakerdphd.bsky.social are 🔥🔥🔥.
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“It’s not that traditional liberal arts is out of step with student demand. Instead, it’s out of step with the priorities values desires of a powerful board of trustees with no apparent commitment to liberal education, an administrative class.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Opinion | Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much.
www.nytimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
“It’s not that traditional liberal arts is out of step with student demand. Instead, it’s out of step with the priorities values desires of a powerful board of trustees with no apparent commitment to liberal education, an administrative class.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
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PRE-EXISTING CONDITION 1: ENDOWMENTS AND FINANCIALIZATION or as we say $$ Follow the Money $$
PRE-EXISTING CONDITION 2: STEM VS THE LIBERAL ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Thanks @kgrotke.bsky.social
PRE-EXISTING CONDITION 2: STEM VS THE LIBERAL ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Thanks @kgrotke.bsky.social
Reckoning with the Reckoning in Higher Ed
Universities' decisions in dealing with the 2008 financial crisis laid the foundation for the current financial and social crisis in higher education.
lpeproject.org
May 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
PRE-EXISTING CONDITION 1: ENDOWMENTS AND FINANCIALIZATION or as we say $$ Follow the Money $$
PRE-EXISTING CONDITION 2: STEM VS THE LIBERAL ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Thanks @kgrotke.bsky.social
PRE-EXISTING CONDITION 2: STEM VS THE LIBERAL ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Thanks @kgrotke.bsky.social
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Yassin al-Haj Saleh on returning to Syria, translated by Yasmine Seale buff.ly/4dIQndz
The Return | Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Yasmine Seale
My darling Sammour, After years of silence, I began writing you a letter last October. I gave it the title “Guardian of Hope,” since your absence is bound
buff.ly
April 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Yassin al-Haj Saleh on returning to Syria, translated by Yasmine Seale buff.ly/4dIQndz
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We’d advocate for Mahmoud Khalil even if he was a witless jerk, but his letter from ICE detention will be, when we get through the fascist weather, a canonical document not of that which he calls “democracy of convenience” but the real democracy yet to be made. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Mahmoud Khalil: What does my detention by ICE say about America?
A democracy for some is no democracy at all.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We’d advocate for Mahmoud Khalil even if he was a witless jerk, but his letter from ICE detention will be, when we get through the fascist weather, a canonical document not of that which he calls “democracy of convenience” but the real democracy yet to be made. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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We've got Grotke @kgrotke.bsky.social and Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social
Won't believe in this app until Kelly Grotke and Davarian Baldwin decide to open accounts here
April 3, 2025 at 2:35 AM
We've got Grotke @kgrotke.bsky.social and Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social
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Great essay by @adamtooze.bsky.social that explores why Palestine is so central to US campus politics. This section is worth highlighting, as it articulates the shortcomings of framing anti-Palestine repression primarily through discourses of free speech or Democracy v Authoritarianism (link below)
March 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Great essay by @adamtooze.bsky.social that explores why Palestine is so central to US campus politics. This section is worth highlighting, as it articulates the shortcomings of framing anti-Palestine repression primarily through discourses of free speech or Democracy v Authoritarianism (link below)
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Colleges issue billions of dollars in debt!
March 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Colleges issue billions of dollars in debt!