A Defense of #FreeCollege

POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN Temple University professor Sara Goldrick-Rab probably knows and understands more about how real students today pay for — or are financially incapable of paying for — higher education than anyone else.  Her book, Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream, is one of the…

Twitter, Salaita, and Goldrick-Rab

I have an essay about the Salaita case posted today at University World News. Salaita’s dismissal and the case of Sara Goldrick-Rab may lead some people to think that professors must never use Twitter, but I think that would be a mistake. Twitter doesn’t cause controversial statements. There’s nothing about 140 characters that makes people…

In Defense of Sara Goldrick-Rab

Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of educational policy and sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is under fire for tweeting to some incoming freshman an article about the budget cuts and attacks on tenure at her institution. The campus College Republicans started a campaign denouncing her tweets as “disgusting and repulsive” and declared, “The…