Publishing
We’re always looking for writing to be published here on our site. Send us a question for Dear AF or your own manifesto for liberal education. Contact us if you have an idea for a piece you would like to pitch!
Scholarly Promotion
Are you publishing a new book or other significant work? We can provide funding and support in developing ideas for a launch event to help disseminate your project and enrich its impact. In partnership with Swarthmore College Libraries, we’re offering support to Swarthmore faculty and staff to promote a recent publication or forthcoming signature scholarly or artistic work.
Curricular Grants
We’re offering grants to support Swarthmore faculty developing assignments, projects, or entire courses that include research, writing, discussion, and reflection on topics related to the history, present, and future of liberal arts and/or higher education. Applications are rolling and will continue to be evaluated monthly until we reach the annual budget’s limit.
Cross-Institutional Teaching Collaborations
Are you teaching a course with faculty or students from other institutions? Let us know. Our primary interest is in discovering what students and faculty learn from cross-institutional courses of this kind that they might not otherwise learn; we also hope to hear what you’ve found valuable about teaching across institutions, and what resources you need to continue to do it.
Professional Practices
We’re extremely interested in data or evidence about professional practices in liberal education, including innovative methodological strategies. Please talk to us, whether it’s about your own scholarly work or about an initiative or collaborative project you are involved in. Or just make suggestions! We want to find ways to know more about what people do in their classrooms, in their curricular designs, in planning their scholarship.
Consulting
We’re thinking about what a faculty-based consultancy across institutions might look like. If this interests you as well, contact us; we’d like to hear more.
Staff Involvement
If you’re Swarthmore faculty or staff, watch for our Tuesday Cafe series, dinner discussions, research seminars, public writing workshops, and other events and programs.
Research Fellows
Research Fellows work closely with the director and senior associate director of the Aydelotte Foundation to support our research and programming around interdisciplinary and collaborative inquiry, the liberal arts, and higher education. Research Fellows have the opportunity to engage and support our current projects, including “Race, Racism, and Liberal Arts” and faculty seminars “Just Art,” and “Just Tech,” and future planned programming as well as to develop new projects.
Swarthmore students can apply to be a student research fellow. Applications for the 2025-26 academic year are now closed.
Swarthmore students should also consider taking one of the courses we teach semi-regularly.
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Aydelotte Foundation Open Office Hours
Aydelotte Foundation Interim Director Andy Hines and Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Justice and Technology Linda Huber welcome you to drop in, say hello, and learn more about what we’re up to at our weekly open office hours this fall on Thursdays from 1-2pm in Parrish W201. Tea, coffee, and snacks will be available too!
Check out the Get Involved page, Publications, and the rest of the Aydelotte Foundation website to learn more about some of the things we've been working on.
If you can’t make it to office hours and would like to meet, feel free to reach out to us for an appointment at another time.
Just Tech: Against Tech Oligarchy with Clarissa Redwine and JS Tan
After Donald Trump's election in 2016, the tech industry sprang into action to oppose his right-wing agenda, with workers and CEOs alike joining mass mobilizations against the new president's anti-immigrant policies. But it wasn't long before the tech bosses started to fall in line with the new administration. In response, tens of thousands of tech workers protested against their own employers for betraying the progressive values that once defined the industry—including organizing against military contracts, walking out to protest sexism, and even launching a wave of union drives. By the early 2020s, these workers had sparked what observers were calling the tech worker movement, one that seemed capable of checking the industry's reckless growth and reactionary drift. But as their struggle grew, so did the employers' backlash. A new class consciousness took root among tech's billionaire owners. Hell-bent on stamping out any and all dissent, tech executives embraced Trumpism, fired organizers, and began lashing out against the "woke" ideology they blamed for turning their once loyal employees against them—and replacing the good tech jobs of the 2010s with incessant layoffs, grind culture, and a management style that treats workers as disposable. Against Tech Oligarchy provides a gripping account of this inspiring workers' movement and the rise of the hostile labor politics that define Silicon Valley today.
Clarissa Redwine helped organize the Kickstarter union, and has since dedicated herself to organizing the industry. She co-founded and runs the annual tech organizing conference Circuit Breakers. Her organizing work has been featured in The New York Times, the BBC, The Guardian, The Verge, TechCrunch, and elsewhere.
JS Tan is getting his PhD at MIT and formerly worked in tech, where he spent years organizing across the industry. His work has been featured in The New York Times, MIT Technology Review, Dissent, Jacobin, Foreign Policy, The Baffler, and The Guardian, among other outlets.
Presented by the Aydelotte Foundation at Swarthmore College as a continuation of our 2025-26 faculty/staff seminar, Just Tech: Accessible Sustainable Futures.
This event is free and to the public and the Tri-Co community.
Lunch will be available at 12:00; talk begins at 12:30pm.
Aydelotte Foundation Open Office Hours
Aydelotte Foundation Interim Director Andy Hines and Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Justice and Technology Linda Huber welcome you to drop in, say hello, and learn more about what we’re up to at our weekly open office hours this fall on Thursdays from 1-2pm in Parrish W201. Tea, coffee, and snacks will be available too!
Check out the Get Involved page, Publications, and the rest of the Aydelotte Foundation website to learn more about some of the things we've been working on.
If you can’t make it to office hours and would like to meet, feel free to reach out to us for an appointment at another time.
