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andy hines

@andyhines.bsky.social

political economy of higher ed | socialist and communist education | Black studies | author of OUTSIDE LITERARY STUDIES, editor of UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS (he/him)

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Amy Kristin Sanders@amykristinsanders.bsky.social · yesterday

“If hospitals controlled by a public university can reap the benefits of state funds, then they must be bound by the same constitutional and equal protection mandates as all other state-funded institutions.” They should also be bound by the same open records law. Just sayin'.

Penn State Health sued for citing Catholicism to cancel gender-affirming surgery

Penn State University has been sued for canceling gender-affirming surgery for a non-binary individual because it would have violated Catholic principles.

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andy hines@andyhines.bsky.social · yesterday

good morning to AI Australian radio Sally Sara replying to AI Terry Gross on my behalf about an essay I wrote 15 years ago and a book about Edward Said I never wrote. Looking forward to hearing the discussion!

@vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social · 6d ago

You cannot speak for a community without consulting its members. You cannot declare “first principles” for a university without faculty participation. The Vanderbilt faculty did not draft or “adopt” this. www.vanderbilt.edu/declaration/

Declaration

The University and Its Purpose: A Declaration of First Principles was adopted by the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust in June 2026. The declaration is organized around three core purposes: Pathbre...

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Aaron Bady@zunguzungu.bsky.social · 2w ago

The only real profitability of AI has always been that the government artificially subsidizes this politically-connected industry by forcing citizens to subsidize its otherwise very middling-to-poor products; k-12 education is one of the main places for that to happen. www.ft.com/content/e23e...

AI labs begin to muscle in on $6tn education market

Anthropic and OpenAI are among groups providing free and cut-price tailored solutions for educators and students

ft.com

ZSW@zsw.bsky.social · 2w ago

Six new books I’m excited about: 1) Tejasvi Nagaraja - Troop Movements - a new labor history of the WWII era 2) Annie McLanahan - Beneath the Wage - teaching this Marxist account of gig work next week. 3) Stuart Schrader - Blue Power: Stuart’s history of the rise of the political power of police

Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 2w ago

Alright don't make me regret this: Doing some revisions to the Future of Work grad class. Who's got serious research about actually existing AI in actual workplaces? Closer to the shopfloor the better, we traditionally use each week for a different domain (health, transport, etc).

andy hines@andyhines.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’m getting so tired of tapping my Vanderbilt sign, but here I go again. proteanmag.com/2024/04/29/d...

Discipline and Protest • Protean Magazine

Andy Hines writes on how profit incentive, prestige-seeking, and student repression intersect at elite U.S. universities. Despite institutions' public commitments to free expression, willingness to qu...

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Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3w ago

There is a small section that mentions how none of the neutrality stuff is real but this feels like an ad. Uncritically touts rankings while also ignoring when ol boy publicly broke down over how low they were because us news pretended to care about the poor for a moment. nymag.com/intelligence...

Prisonculture@prisonculture.bsky.social · last mo.

Healthcare has to be one of the 2 most important planks to run on in 2028. It has to be Improved Medicare For All or bust. Single payer that includes vision, dental, and mental health for ALL. Go to war with the insurance companies. Tie healthcare to everything because it is tied to everything.

andy hines@andyhines.bsky.social · last mo.

I keep encountering the passing claim that academic specialization is a particular result of left academics or as a relation to the German research model. That claim seems to ignore capital’s tendency towards specialization, which Levins and Lewinton draw attention to here.

4:42 libcom.org 今 B6 凸 ioconLorg tora, has been extending into commerce, office work, and scientific research. The managerial ap Copy Search with Google > for the ends of the managers. The fragmentation of skills, and the resulting increase in specialization, is derived not from the intellectual needs of a field but from the managers' cost accounting: it is cheaper to train one laboratory hematologist and one urinalyst than to prepare two general medical technicians. Therefore their labour powers cheaper, wages are lower, obsolete parts can be fired and replaced. Furthermore, the fragmentation and deskilling consolidates control over the divided work force. But deskilling in scientific work makes for greater alienation - the +
Sameer Ashar@sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“capitalism inexorably kills and injures working class people, and it adds to those injuries the insults of rationalizing, victim blaming, and forgetting“ @nhold.bsky.social toward moral clarity

Nate Holdren@nhold.bsky.social · 2mo ago

LaborOnline kindly ran a short essay of mine where I talk a bit about the personal backstory of my recent journal article in Labor and explore some of the larger themes. I'd appreciate if you'd check it out! lawcha.org/2026/06/13/t...

andy hines@andyhines.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When I see the headline that WVU Medicine has spent $1.2 billion since 2023, I can't help but think about how that amount is nearly 10x the amount of what the operational deficit at WVU would have been had "academic transformation" not been undertaken by Gordon Gee and the rpk Group.

WVU Medicine unveils more than $350 million in new capital projects Third-consecutive year of investments totals more than $1.2 billion
andy hines@andyhines.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One of the chancellors that commissioned this report claims scholarly expertise in “reputational risk” and also considers himself to be Churchill-esque. Important data points to consider when reading what a committee he charged has to say about the humanities

4:39 = 93 proteanmag.com D ＝ fhere is any doubc abour Vanderbilt University's overweening interest in burnishing its reputation, one need look no further than Chancellor Daniel Diermeier's scholarly expertise: "reputational risks for global corporations." Some of his books include Reputational Analytics: Public Opinion For Companies, Reputation Rules: Strategies for Building your Company's Most Valuable Asset, and, perhaps most relevantly, Corporate Reputation and Social Activism (co-authored with David Besanko and Jose Miguel Abito). Leveraging crisis to bolster an institution's reputation: this would appear to be the reason that Diermeier was appointed to become Vanderbilt's chancellor in 2020. (It also didn't hurt that he had a record of managing-graduate education and warding off unions at his previous position as Provost of the University of Chicage.) Since his appointment, Diermeier has uised laroer social and political crises as 4:39 .1l F 03 proteanmag.com = Since his appointment, Diermeier has used larger social and political crises as a means to increase Vanderbilt's standing. The "shock doctrine" employed by. university administrators during the coronavirus pandemic has been well-documented. Yet, under Diermeier, Vanderbilt deployed an inversion of this strategy at least in its public communications: he brought students back to campus more quickly than many other institutions, prioritizing function over student, worker, and community safety. After students returned in the fall of 2020 and Diermeier became one of the protagonists in what can only be described as an institutional hagiography—a book titled A Year Like No Other: How a Global Pandemic Led to Vanderbilt University's Proudest Moment by Ryan Underwood. In his preface to the book, Diermeier casts himself as equivalent to Winston Churchill during World War II. Disaster provides an opportunity for making austerity and favorable.
Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Very awkward for the presidents of two major US universities, as well as a series of highly regarded scholars (Keane Anthony Appiah!) to publicly shit in their own their trousers like this: www.vanderbilt.edu/principles/s...

andy hines@andyhines.bsky.social · 2mo ago

To underline what Asheesh is drawing attention to — I really appreciate Isaac Kamola and Ralph Wilson’s recent essay on the Koch theory of the “structure of social change” diagrammed below by one of its architects Richard Fink.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 2mo ago

The defunding project works like this: (1) right-wing legislatures demand that public universities create 'intellectual diversity' centers using taxpayer dollars and/or by accepting big donations from conservative billionaires like the Koch brothers (who also fund AEI, which produced the report)