Grateful as always for your thinking in public about what a more democratic higher ed might look like and how we might get there!

I admittedly get exhausted / frustrated by how the discourse around the crisis of higher ed & the humanities ends up recentering elite scenes, subjects, and concerns, but I know that's not your intention or political vision.

Thanks so much for this thoughtful reply Nathan! As always, I love wrestling with your ideas & I'll be chewing on your helpful points here, esp. about which residual scenes/spaces could be revived or reactivated & what the cynical (re)branding cycles reveal about the crisis.

No apology necessary -- social media is weird! It's become more & more important to me to publicly advocate for non-Ivy/R1/SLAC students, faculty, and staff and to push back on what feel like distortions or just misunderstandings of our institutions, but always very happy to discuss more with you.

Absolutely! At my last teaching job: almost all undergrads worked at least one job (sometimes more), many had caretaking duties, a high percentage of first gen students. I related to them well-- I worked 35 hours a week throughout my undergrad degree (a shift manager in a cafe then as a secretary).

But I can see why it would be comforting to those at elite institutions to imagine themselves as the vanguard of the "liberal arts resurgence." Sad to hear my colleagues aren't "primed" for it... I guess we'll be cheering you on?

big yikes... Nathan, I'm really disappointed by this very weird take, as a person at regional comprehensive college. Folks at R1s just keep showing how little you all know about what we actually do here. It sure isn't "job-training & full on vocational curricula." Just a very strange thing to say.

Congratulations!!

yesssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!! can't wait to get my copy! so exciting!

If you'd like to check out my essay, I've uploaded a PDF here: teaganbradway.com/publications

Woah!!!! Omg that means more to me than you know! Plz tell them to reach out if they'd like to chat about the work anytime! (My email is teagan.bradway@gmail.com). And I'm very sorry for not seeing & responding to your post earlier, I haven't been checking this space very often!

This is incredible! I'm so insanely honored to have some work featured here. Thank you!!!!! Sending good wishes to your students!

Can’t wait to read this!

Great cover!

Huge thanks to @lgilmore.bsky.social for recommending me to the editors; to @cassiusa.bsky.social for giving such encouraging feedback to an early draft; and to everyone that's been so loving and supportive of my transition these past few years. (Heads up: the essay talks about sexual violence)