Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

Book two coming soon!

As @llassabe.bsky.social has shown, this was a goal of conservative students going back to the late-1960s, finally enacted.

Up for today's graduate reading course, @llassabe.bsky.social!

Went on American Campus Podcast with @llassabe.bsky.social to offer a primer on university budgets. Listen here or via Spotify, iTunes, etc: americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis.... The episode is broad on purpose, but I hope faculty use it to explore their budgets and ask questions.

People finally understanding how Title IX Offices work

I also am co-editing with @llassabe.bsky.social the book, Degrees of Liberation: Public History, Campus Activism, and the Fight for Educational Justice, under contract with SUNY Press. It examines Native, African American, Latine, and other groups’ activism as public history in higher education.

Had a great time w/ @llassabe.bsky.social talking about how private equity, real estate, and other industries have captured our boards of trustees + how that shapes the teaching and resarch in schools of design + climate/energy policy centers americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

@amit-singh.bsky.social is on a new episode of the American Campus Podcast, hosted by @llassabe.bsky.social, to discuss his new book Cancelled Futures: buff.ly/NOpk9Wj

Good to chat to @llassabe.bsky.social on @americancampus.bsky.social about Cancelled Futures (@princetonupress.bsky.social) 'Is a degree worth its cost in the postindustrial UK? with Amit Singh' americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

Interesting deep dive here. I'll add that for all the assumptions out there about MAHA, young men (left) are significantly more anti-vax than women (right), and more hostile to academic science. ymrp.substack.com -> static1.squarespace.com/static/68262... and static1.squarespace.com/static/68262...

Four weeks until book reviews (and more!) launch--help us reach new subscribers before then!

Occasional reminder that the right-wing attack on higher ed, including the push for "viewpoint diversity" and "civic education," is largely a racist backlash against an increasingly non-white college-going demographic.

At long last, The Postliberal University is available for pre-order! hep.gse.harvard.edu/979889557111...

Two types of academic correspondence are “apologies for the delay but I’ll need more time” and “hey do you wanna do this thing with me three years from now”

THREE CHEERS www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

In which we compare George Santos to Paul de Man www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

I cannot really explain to someone who hasn't been steeped in this stuff for awhile how sudden and total the "go to college and get a good job" edict has collapsed. It's a vaccuum. And we know how nature feels about those. All we are throwing in there at the moment is A.I.

There’s something extremely satisfying about a ~180 page nonfiction paperback, I can’t explain it

Traveling back to Massachusetts tomorrow, so once again y’all get #ScholarSunday on a Saturday! Here’s my 289th thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +

The Drafting the Past rebrand/new site is going live tomorrow! This is extremely exciting, but also means that I am trying to keep track of 6,000 tiny details while my 3-year-old covers my living room in an entire roll of painter's tape.

Maybe it’s because I spent all of woke 1 in Mississippi, but I have very different memories of its supposed excesses

For a one time fee of $5,000, I will decorate your incoming freshman’s dorm room. This is a spectacularly good price.

Commissioning a transphobic bigot to write an article about a UK academic scandal to somehow indict US higher education (a completely different system about which this case has literally no bearing) for being too woke is peak New York Times brain. Not a great thing, just an unfortunate one.

I am so thrilled about the next chapter of Drafting the Past that @mkn.bsky.social and I are working on together. I can't wait to tell you more about it as we lead up to the launch!

We have run out of movie titles. SEO is all that’s left

What do you think the moral panics will be about gen a when it’s their turn

The Atlantic (2026) and Peter Thiel (1995) bravely ask

Do I really “have a good eye” or is this something antique shops like to say

I think that if a major disciplinary organization rescinds a book prize, there should be some statement or explanation of why that happened. This sort of thing shouldn‘t just be done ‘quietly.’