Deep Cuts: Indiana and Boston

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Toyin Falola

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Jul 9, 2025, 5:00:29 PM7/9/25
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Please pay attention to ongoing changes. Indians is far reaching, eliminating MA in African Studies and Comparative Literature. 25 per cent reduction in tenure track jobs. Boston eliminated over a hundred staff and no new faculty recruitment.

Oluwatoyin Adepoju

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Jul 9, 2025, 5:18:15 PM7/9/25
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That would be tragic.

I used to admire Indiana Comparative Literature. A very powerful program 

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Please pay attention to ongoing changes. Indians is far reaching, eliminating MA in African Studies and Comparative Literature. 25 per cent reduction in tenure track jobs. Boston eliminated over a hundred staff and no new faculty recruitment.

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Emeagwali, Gloria (History)

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Jul 10, 2025, 1:05:51 AM7/10/25
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The great shrinkage of the U.S. 
university, as we know it, 
is in process.International students
 are going to safer places  where 
they wouldn’t be arrested and 
mishandled for progressive 
views.

The attack on DEI is taking its toll, too. 
The Trump administration is
clear about its intention to 
 undermine inclusivity in all
definitions of the term.
Anti- DEI policies are pretty much 
hostile towards  regions of the 
world outside of the U.S. - and the
diasporas and  the specialists 
associated with them.

Although local campus 
administrators may not necessarily 
want to gut regional studies,  cuts
in funding  make it difficult to 
do otherwise.

Well the Trump administration 
has been playing chess - while
we were playing Snakes& Ladders
and landed on the head of a snake.



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Chief Editor- "Africa Update"
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Founding Coordinator, African Studies, CCSU


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Toyin Falola

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Jul 10, 2025, 1:55:16 AM7/10/25
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Who generates knowledge for the expansion of the military-industrial-complex?
How is knowledge connected to the hegemony of the empire?
The answers they provide will shape the final outcome of their policies.
I doubt Trump sees his policies as damages.



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