Thursday, October 31, 2024

DeVos Funnels $250k to Musk’s Pro-Trump Super PAC (David Halperin)

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Billionaire Betsy DeVos, who resigned from her job as Donald Trump’s secretary of education over Trump’s incitement of the deadly Janua...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

A Trump v Harris Decision

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The US has never been a true democracy. Since its inception, it has systematically disenfranchised entire groups of people because of t...
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Join the Webinar Promising Strategies to Prevent Student Harassment and Bullying Behavior (US Department of Education)

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Join the webinar Promising Strategies to Prevent Student Harassment and Bullying Behavior - Wednesday, October 30, 2024 | 3:00 - 4:30 ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Seven of Higher Education's Biggest Myths (Glen McGhee)

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Several cultural myths and assumptions are deeply embedded in discussions about higher education and colleges as social institutions: T...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

“Intellectual Hick”: Sorting Out Our Complex Identities (Robert Jensen)

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I am from rural America, sort of. I’m an intellectual, sort of. I’m certainly on the political left, but some comrades believe I’ve turned c...
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Friday, October 25, 2024

The "Education Not Agitation" Act Seeks Crackdown on Campus Protestors

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Republican Greg Murphy (MD) has introduced legislation in Congress to crack down on American college campuses, and to support the rest...

New higher education enrollment numbers: a mixed bag (Bryan Alexander)

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How is higher education enrollment changing? Today the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center published its first analysis of...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Ramogi Huma, Bringing Justice to Big-Time College Sports (ASU Humanities Institute)

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Related links: National College Players Association (NCPA) What we know and what we don't about a historic settlement to pay colleg...

SAVE borrowers get 6 month pause—maybe you can too. (Debt Collective)

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  The US Department of Education just announced that everyone enrolled in the SAVE plan will have their student loans paused in a zero-i...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

College Inc. Redux is Overdue

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We desperately need a PBS Frontline updating of College Inc. This 2010 documentary by Martin Smith and Rain Media took us behind the...

Academia Insider (Andy Stapleton)

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Andy Stapleton of Academia Insider provides a great public service to consumers by exposing the social realities of graduate school edu...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

"50 Over 50" Debtors Announce First 'Older Debtors' Action in Washington, D.C. (Debt Collective)

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Related links:  Discharge Our Debts Before We Die (Debt Collective) The Student Loan Mess Updated: Debt as a Form of Social Control and...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Tuskegee University is Ready to Enroll Students in New Aviation Degree Program (Tuskegee University)

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Tuskegee, Alabama — After working to secure funding, partnerships and accreditation, Tuskegee University is proud to announce that stu...

Humanizing Education Part I: Can Spelman College Wellness Be a Model for Change?

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In 2013, Spelman College , an all-women's college and HBCU took the bold move of replacing its costly Division III sports program w...

Universities on Fire wins AAC&U book award (Bryan Alexander)

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For the past several years I’d focused much of my research capacity on forecasting how the climate crisis might impact higher education...
Sunday, October 13, 2024

Guild (Education) No Longer Glitters: Layoffs, Toxic Work Environment, Questionable Acquisition

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Here's our latest analysis of Guild (formerly Guild Education ) based on a limited amount of publicly available data. Guild is a third-p...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

Hind's Hall (Macklemore)

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Rehumanization in Higher Education: An Alternative to Maximizing Panic and Profit

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It's questionable whether the Earth's tech bros (e.g. Gates, Musk, Bezos, Thiel, Zuckerberg) really believe in democracy, but t...
Friday, October 11, 2024

One Year of Genocide in Gaza: Dispatches from Palestine & Lebanon (AMED San Francisco State Umiversity)

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  Housed in the historic College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University alongside the studies of Indigenous communities and ot...

Resources to Support Communities Impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton (US Department of Education)

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Under President Biden’s and Vice President Harris’ direction, the Administration continues to mobilize a robust, intensive, and whole-of-gov...