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Nancy J. Jacobs

@nancyjjacobs.bsky.social

Corn-fed *and* cultural elite! I write histories of small things--of people you never heard of and animals. Having been raised a Calvinist, humans don't disappoint me very often. Good historical method gives me hope for the world.

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Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · last yr.

At March Madness today in Providence, @sethrockman.bsky.social, a historian at Brown University, and profs from other local colleges will be conducting a mobile teach-in to draw attention to how DOGE cuts will negatively impact the students and communities associated with the schools playing today.

PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: March 22, 2025 Contact: Seth Rockman, sethrockman2018@gmail.com NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Teach-In on the Federal Government's Attack on Higher Education Providence, RI, March 22, 2025 College professors from Brown University, Providence College, University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island School of Design, and other local institutions will stage a "mobile teach-in" in Downtown Providence during Saturday's NCAA Men's Basketball games at the Amica Mutual Arena. Faculty will draw attention to the Trump Administration budget cuts that threaten higher education here in Rhode Island and on the campuses now competing in the tournament. "There won't be any winners when it comes to the massive reductions of research funding and financial aid befalling schools like Purdue, Arkansas, McNeese, and St. John's," said Seth Rockman, a Brown University history professor and organizer of the event. "These institutions may no longer be able to conduct transformative research or open doors to social mobility. This will be a disaster for our country." All eight of the institutions competing in Providence this week are at risk of losing millions in federal funding due to DOGE interference in the operations of the National Institute of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Education, and other federal agencies. Purdue University, for example, may lose $70 million in funding from USAID. Cuts to federal financial aid may render St. John's unaffordable to the more than 30 percent of its students eligible for such support. Executive orders prohibiting institutional efforts toward diversity, equity, and inclusion have placed Clemson under federal investigation and resulted in last month's termination of three teacher education programs at High Point University. "These aren't 'woke' or elite schools," observed Rockman. "Red state, blue state, big, small, public, private, it doesn't matter. Everyone los…
Nancy J. Jacobs@nancyjjacobs.bsky.social · last yr.

Last week and this week, I'm teaching on South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s. I feel something as momentous as 1948 in SA has just happened in the US. I don't say this only to rage at MAGA, but to think about what was lost and what will be required for recovery.

Nancy J. Jacobs@nancyjjacobs.bsky.social · last yr.

I had a Twitter account for a bit. I considered myself in the Twitter world, but not of it. Now I'm trying BlueSky. I'm following people who share my politics, but I'm seeing a good amount of the binary thinking and purism that sent me off Twitter.