Truthout
Higher Education
Neoliberalism’s Decades-Long Attack on Public Universities
Neoliberals have turned our universities into corporations and students into consumers.
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Eligible but Got Nothing: Hundreds of Thousands of People With Disabilities Blocked From College Aid
When offices set up to assist people with disabilities become obstacles.
Economic Update: Higher Ed Class Struggles
This episode discusses top corporate leaders and top government officials as tight partners, British wages and Brexit, and Goldman Sachs.
Joe Paterno’s Ugly Defenders: Exposing the Penn State Truthers
Paterno Truthers resort to trolling and misogynistic comments to deny his culpability in the Sandusky scandal.
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Berkeley Bans a Palestine Class
This decision sends a clear message to the campus: controversial speech will be punished, especially if it is critical of Israel.
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Notorious For-Profit College Shutters, Blames Administration
Private college giant ITT Tech has become the latest higher education profiteer to buckle under federal investigations into alleged wrongdoing.
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The Koch Brothers’ Right-Wing Trojan Horse: Institutes for “Well-Being“
The Koch brothers are funding “well-being” institutes on college campuses to brainwash students.
Graduate Students Are Workers: The Decades-Long Fight for Graduate Unions, and the Path Forward
The NLRB's ruling that teaching and research assistants at Columbia University are workers and are legally protected is historic.
Emerging Feminisms, Ideological Abolition: Divesting Ideas (Not Just Money) From the Prison
In a way, both the university and the prison are sites that cultivate either value or disposability in people.
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“Bernie-mentum” Nudges Clinton Forward on Debt-Free College
The persistence of the political coalition around Bernie Sanders has nudged Hillary Clinton toward a more progressive position on student debt.