Two Twitter threads that reveal the current state of The Kings College, a Christian college in New York City

They’re currently facing financial hardship and possible closure as @ScottJaschik reports here: https://t.co/FjDTDWgAFE

— 💭 (@samthielman) February 27, 2023

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— 💭 (@samthielman) February 27, 2023

In 2021, King’s hired something called Primacorp Ventures (@primacorpinc) to do manage essentially all of its external finances—fundraising, marketing, student recruitment https://t.co/AyplJLFkHb

— 💭 (@samthielman) February 27, 2023

Six months on the dot from the Primacorp announcement, King’s made Stockwell Day chairman of its board. They didn’t announce that they had done so until the following February, when they put five more extremely cronyish folks on the board with him. https://t.co/CE4Kr21ykP

— 💭 (@samthielman) February 27, 2023

Barely a month later, Day announces that Primacorp’s “partnership” with King’s is going to radically expand into the scammy online college space. https://t.co/rkXkqnO0m6

— 💭 (@samthielman) February 27, 2023

Now it really looks like King’s is going to close, despite having JUST, as in LAST MONTH signed a *12-year* lease. Maybe it’ll get acquired by a less naive but more rapacious institution, like Liberty or Hillsdale. Who knows? https://t.co/Y5k4StJBSA

— 💭 (@samthielman) February 27, 2023

I suspect I know exactly who will end up owning that building. Here's an interesting dispatch from North Haverbrook, uh, Quest College: https://t.co/E0OOuv6esd

— 💭 (@samthielman) February 27, 2023

So I guess my question here is: @crutweets, Bill Bright's name appears in pretty much every piece of boilerplate The King's issues. Are y'all comfortable with con artists like @stockwell_day and @primacorpinc tanking the place for cash? @Rodbergen pic.twitter.com/D09hxHbcsK

— 💭 (@samthielman) February 27, 2023

we regret the error

— 💭 (@samthielman) February 27, 2023

More from Warren, who's all over this story: https://t.co/8kGqa73SRc

— 💭 (@samthielman) February 27, 2023

This rolling contract is a way of confirming that you don't need to go on the academic job market (as cyclical as the earth's revolutions around the sun) in the fall, which is immensely time-consuming and sucks attention away from the work of teaching, writing, and advising.

— Alissa Wilkinson (@alissamarie) March 7, 2023

However, the crisis the institution faces now — a development the ramifications of which only were made clear to faculty about a month and a half ago — means that, barring a miracle, King's won't be honoring my contract past this semester.

— Alissa Wilkinson (@alissamarie) March 7, 2023

In other words, in about 8 weeks I almost certainly need a new way to pay my bills.

— Alissa Wilkinson (@alissamarie) March 7, 2023

In other words, I've always had a "day job."

Now, the challenge ahead is to try to figure out how to make up the difference. I'm not going to be leaving New York, but unless something unexpected comes through, I will probably be forced to leave teaching.

— Alissa Wilkinson (@alissamarie) March 7, 2023

Why post all this here? Because I'm actively looking for work of all kinds. My writing, editing, and teaching experience is extensive; my background is multidisciplinary (tech writing, arts and culture nonprofits, internal and external communications …

— Alissa Wilkinson (@alissamarie) March 7, 2023

I think my CV speaks for itself, but if you've got questions or want to chat about ideas, I'd love to talk.https://t.co/UzjqJEpzrW

— Alissa Wilkinson (@alissamarie) March 7, 2023