Monthly Archives: January, 2012
From HuffPo’s …
From HuffPo’s Chris Kirkham comes an illustrative narrative about the impact of reduced state funding to public higher education and the increase in enrollment seen in for-profits: Just after … Continue reading
Oh, yeah
I realized that I didn’t link to my own article on my own blog. LOL So, here’s the HuffPo piece on for-profit colleges, race, class, and educational justice. The challenge, … Continue reading
“Eviction is for black women what incarceration is for black men”
It’s a provocative line in what promises to be some provocative scholarship. I’d never thought of it before but instability in housing was very common among the young women I … Continue reading
“You Can Do Anything!”
“No, I majored in poetry and clowning.” At about 3:40 this becomes very funny in that “ouch, ouch, hit dog; hollering” kind of way. Status competition theory meet comedy. http://www.nbc.com/assets/video/widget/widget.html?vid=1379100
Mitt Romney and For-profits
Today the Huffington Post features a story on Mitt Romney’s praising for-profit colleges for their affordability (Mitt Romney’s Rationale On For-Profit Colleges At Odds With Reality). Politics aside for a … Continue reading
This will be the new and, hopefully, well-managed blog!
Just a summary of who I am, what I do, and what I have going on to get us started: Despite overwhelming evidence that a college degree is not … Continue reading
