The Institutions on the Department of Education’s Financial Watch List: Part 2
Good National Coverage of the Causes of Student Debt
The think-tank Demos has done a report on the causes of soaring tuition costs and debt levels for students enrolled at public colleges and universities, and the report is getting some national attention. Here is an excerpt from an article on the CBS News site MoneyWatch: “Thanks to rapidly rising tuition costs, America has a…
It’s All Interconnected. It Just Requires a Special Sort of Vision to See It.
Over the past few days. There has been a great deal of media coverage of the Far Right lunatic theory that long-planned military exercises in western Texas are a cover for a planned federal takeover of the state. Supposedly some shuttered Walmarts have been leased by the federal government for use as detention centers, and…
Two Odd Education-Related Stories
On the same day in mid-March, the ABC news service in Australia (which is, as far as I know not affiliated with ABC network in the U.S.) published these two brief stories. The first item concerns an unexpected twist to “Book Week” at a British school: “Book Week, where children dress up as their…
The Institutions on the Department of Education’s Financial Watch List: Part 1
Intercollegiate Athletics: Six More Graphs on the Costs and the Revenue Sources
The U.S. Department of Education Should Be Held Accountable for Failure to Regulate Predatory For-Profit Colleges
From Diane Ravitch:
The Difference between Charlie Hebdo and the American Freedom Defense Initiative
In response to the “cartoon contest” in Garland, Texas, that provoked an attack by two “Muslim extremists,” the news media has not been able to avoid making parallels to the much more devastating attack on the editorial offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Most of those commentators have felt uneasy enough with the comparison that…
The Attacks on Charlie Hebdo’s PEN Award
On May 5 at the PEN Literary Gala, the magazine Charlie Hebdo will be awarded the PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Freedom of Expression Courage Award. At least 204 PEN members have signed a letter objecting to the honor, complaining that Charlie Hebdo offended Muslims and therefore is unworthy of any award. The anti-Charlie Hebdo…
Corporatization Run Amok—Beyond Academia but with Equivalents within Academia
In higher education, the imposition of “civility codes” and the institutional appropriation of the intellectual property rights formerly assigned to faculty have both started to emerge as major issues. What most faculty may not be aware of, however, is that many corporations have already imposed versions of both of these things not just on their…