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Higher Education
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Divestment Movement Spurs Existential Crisis in Higher Education
Who will read my research and what, if anything, will it do to improve the lives of the people about whom I write?
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Free Community College, Anyone?
An Oregon bill promises free community college tuition but targets only middle-class students, overlooking the other half of the costs.
Mark Crispin Miller: Neoliberalism and Its Impacts on Free Speech, Education and Democracy
Mark Crispin Miller discusses neoliberal doctrine and his new series, “Forbidden Bookshelf.”
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Higher Education Lobby Quietly Joins For-Profit Schools to Roll Back Tighter Rules
Traditional colleges and universities have become unlikely allies of the beleaguered for-profit industry.
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What Happens When the Student Loan Bubble Pops?
71 percent of people have some sort student loan debt and the average is nearly $33,000.
A University Is Not Walmart
The business model has taken over higher education and subverted its mission.
A Higher Education Revolution
More robust estate taxes could cover the cost of making public colleges and universities tuition-free.
Occupation at University of Amsterdam Challenges the Logic of Market-Driven Education
The student occupation at the University of Amsterdam pits democracy against the logic of markets.
Henry A. Giroux | Higher Education and the Politics of Disruption
Academics and social movements must reclaim the university and transform it into a public space.
Henry A. Giroux | Higher Education and the Promise of Insurgent Public Memory
The university has become a social institution that not only fails to address inequality, but contributes to a growing class division.