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 she started working for an ambulance company in this suburban enclave east of Los Angeles, Cierra Nelson came to admire the quick decision making andRead More “From HuffPo’s …”
Monthly Archives: January 2012
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, for me, was to speak plainly about the many structural inequalities that produce a ready-made population that for-profit colleges serve or prey upon, depending uponRead More “Oh, yeah”
“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 worked with in my previous life. And that’s no small thing. Many young women came to over-rely on their boyfriends and partners because they neededRead More ““Eviction is for black women what incarceration is for black men””
“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 moment a commenter asked an interesting question: For profit colleges are so great that how many of Mitt’s many kids went to one? Oh, they’reRead More “Mitt Romney and For-profits”
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 merely a political object but also a socially constructed object that is traded for economic and cultural capital there has been no scholarly attention paidRead More “This will be the new and, hopefully, well-managed blog!”