Sophie Gonick
@professorsophie.bsky.social
urban studies prof at NYU. Currently studying migrant popular economies of housing and labor in NYC
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Parents expect, when they pay tuition & send their kids to universities, that they will be able to take lab science courses or study foreign languages. They have no idea that this stuff isn’t going to exist at many places anymore without foreign students or federal funding.
Again, for the literal <nothing> sum of $86 million in a budget of trillions, we've funded area studies & foreign language study around the country & trained generations of students who have gone one to work in government, academia, the private sector, the military, etc. Just nihilistic madness.
And now, since our Dean wrote this (www.jsonline.com/story/opinio...), we've all received letters informing us year 4 of our NRC/FLAS grants has been cancelled.
International & foreign language education is "not a priority of the administration."
The party of national security something something
International & foreign language education is "not a priority of the administration."
The party of national security something something
November 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Parents expect, when they pay tuition & send their kids to universities, that they will be able to take lab science courses or study foreign languages. They have no idea that this stuff isn’t going to exist at many places anymore without foreign students or federal funding.
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So I say this as a proud academic labor union member who believes deeply in the importance of tenure to the academic mission:
FIRE
LARRY
SUMMERS
FIRE
LARRY
SUMMERS
November 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
So I say this as a proud academic labor union member who believes deeply in the importance of tenure to the academic mission:
FIRE
LARRY
SUMMERS
FIRE
LARRY
SUMMERS
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And I didn‘t have any characters left but as a Harvard College alum who has Larry Summers‘s signature on her diploma AND as a tenured professor who is active in her faculty union: tenure does not protect faculty from consequences, including firing, due to the kind of behavior he evidently exhibited
November 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
And I didn‘t have any characters left but as a Harvard College alum who has Larry Summers‘s signature on her diploma AND as a tenured professor who is active in her faculty union: tenure does not protect faculty from consequences, including firing, due to the kind of behavior he evidently exhibited
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The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.