Today’s interesting tidbit comes from University World News: “Today’s globalised world requires high quality and relevance of post-secondary education…to ensure that youth have the necessary soft and hard skills and tools to meet the dynamic needs of the private sector and market-driven economies in most countries,” Tsitsiragos said. “But it is a ‘chicken and egg’Read More “The IFC Helps Private Equity Expand Into Global HigherEd “Markets””
Yearly Archives: 2012
Is College For Everyone?
That was the question the NY Times asked this week: This week, the Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said that it was snobbish to think that everyone should aspire to go to college because some people have skills and interests that aren’t academic. But is enough done to help those people secure income without higherRead More “Is College For Everyone?”
A Flashback Inspired by Occupy Education
I wrote the following last summer and I continue to stand by it. It’s radical. It’s a little crazy. It is most definitely illegal. In short, it’s a reflection of my thinking in general. I thought to re-post it after following the Occupy Education turn that Occupy Wall Street has taken this week. If yourRead More “A Flashback Inspired by Occupy Education”
What Is a For-Profit College?
Someone with more time and money than me has created a great web resource for potential students about the difference in missions among institutional types. Now y’all can stop sending all your cousins to talk to me.:) Visit www.forprofitu.org for more clear, insightful information like this: Q: I’ve never heard of Education Management Corporation. WhatRead More “What Is a For-Profit College?”
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 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 …”
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!”