Corner of w 23 and n Howard in Baltimore

Pete still hasn't mastered secure communication channels, so they had to bring them in to communicate in person.

Sorry folks, academia has given up most of its mechanisms of introspection, and in particular its ability to care about you... 7/7

As a result, hiring freezes are the first and easiest measure taken everywhere in order to close the budget holes. Where are recent graduates going to work? What about their dreams, efforts, and years invested in their education? 6/

People on the job market this year are not directly going to be affected by cuts in their current institution – their appointments are expiring, anyway. Therefore, they are not considered a constituency that administrators should answer to when making budgetary decisions. 5/

either preemptively or in response, and with varying degrees of spinelessness, but almost invariably retreating from the ideals that they (we) claim to espouse. But it is equally disastrous in how we are about to throw an entire generation of aspiring academics under the bus. 4/

that requires broader partnerships and mobilization, and to serve the priorities of scientific endeavor.

The failure of the model is, of course, conspicuous in the fact that individual leaders get to decide to what extent to give in to the government's assaults on academic freedom – 3/

That said, the corporate-inspired, top-down model that all US universities have adopted (while claiming to be promoting democratic ideals), where administrators answer primarily to their boards, with the interests of a single (their) university in mind, is utterly unable to meet a moment 2/