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Student Debt
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Ten Business Lessons for Higher Education
Neoliberal reformers suggest that universities need to act more like businesses, yet their suggestions undermine the purpose of higher education. Instead, what if universities learned the lessons of responsible …
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The Joys of Abolishing Debt
The Rolling Jubilee is premised on the argument that no one should be forced into debt for basic needs like healthcare and education.
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Occupy Offshoot Cancels $4 Million in Predatory Student Loans – and Starts a Debtors Union
“Rolling Jubilee is a fantastic way to punch through the illusion that you actually owe what the 1 percent thinks you owe,” said Thomas Gokey, a Rolling Jubilee co-founder …
Education With a Debt Sentence: For-Profit Colleges as American Dream Crushers and Factories of Debt
Over the last three decades, the price of a year of college has increased by more than 1,200 percent.
First Fall Semester Debtors’ Assembly at SIUC: A Critique of the Student Debt Regime
Just a few decades ago, accumulating debt in and as a result of attending college was virtually unheard of.
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More US Diplomas Come With Crushing Debts
More than 40 million Americans currently hold student debt. They are collectively responsible for $1.2 trillion of outstanding student loans in the United States.
Why Are Campus Administrators Making So Much Money?
College and university administrators, unlike their faculty and students, are thriving.
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Defending Free Tuition in the Big Apple
The Committee to Save Cooper Union is pursuing legal action to defend the school's 150-year tradition of providing free tuition for all.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Intelligence Agencies Say They’re Too Big to Follow Regulations, and More
What do we do when an intelligence agency says they're too big to follow regulations?
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The 37 Senators Who Voted for Millionaires Over Students
Senate Republicans sided with 22,000 millionaires over 40 million Americans with student debt by blocking the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act.