My friend Akil Bello owns a professional admissions test prep company, the delightfully ironically named Bell Curves. Knowing my work, Akil was kind enough to ask me to offer some free advice on institutional types to young people preparing for college applications. There are a few reasons that I happily said yes. One, an IHEPRead More “For-Profit or Trad? How Do You Know And Why You Should Ask: College App Edition”
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Different Bodies & Different Lives In Academia: Why The Rules Aren’t The Same For Everyone
Part of professionalization in academia involves learning the unpublished rules of how to act, engage, and be an academic. Almost all of us, at some point of our training, is pulled aside and told the “real” rules of publishing, teaching, and cocktail mixers. Minorities – be they ethnic, class, or gendered – sometimes don’t getRead More “Different Bodies & Different Lives In Academia: Why The Rules Aren’t The Same For Everyone”
For-profits for the common good? A Tierney mash-up
As I said in an earlier post about William Tierney’s HuffPo article on for-profits, I respect Bill a great deal. However, with today’s memo on Inside Higher Education about the importance of political investment in higher education I am a bit confused. In the HuffPo article, Bill says: With all this bad press, one mightRead More “For-profits for the common good? A Tierney mash-up”
Respectfully Disagreeing: My Latest on HuffPo
William Tierney is president of AERA, an organization that was my first professional academic home. I respect Bill’s work a great deal. However, his article in HuffingtonPost today and for-profits made what I consider a tactical omission. In battles of legitimacy we too often mistake legal authority with rightful authority. One can have the legalRead More “Respectfully Disagreeing: My Latest on HuffPo”
Not Our Kind of People: Why No One Talks To For-Profit Students
Just as I was reading the latest newsflash from NCES on today’s data release on higher ed employees and student aid, my e-mentor Sara Goldrick-Rab of UW-Madison was already tweeting the juiciest tidbits: The net price difference among two years is also reported: But Sara’s question of “Why?” is what I want to focus on.Read More “Not Our Kind of People: Why No One Talks To For-Profit Students”
The Apocryphal Janitors with College Degree Narrative Persists in Daily Beast
For as long as I have been aware of the college narrative there has existed this boogeyman: some people go to college and end up as JANITORS! The horror! Janitors now join baristas and occasionally strippers as cautionary tales of bloated, out-of-touch higher education run amok. Today’s story, “Janitors With College Degrees and the HigherRead More “The Apocryphal Janitors with College Degree Narrative Persists in Daily Beast”
MOOCs, Coursera, Online Education and Performing Innovation
You have been warned about my unicorn killing habit, right? Good. Let’s dive in. By the nature of the work I do on for-profit colleges, I also closely follow online education. For many years the two have been conflated and in many important ways that conflation continues in both research and the greater cultural imagination. WhileRead More “MOOCs, Coursera, Online Education and Performing Innovation”
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting In For-Profits? Now With Pictures!
Like most people I tend to privilege my own learning style in my communication of ideas. As a result, I rarely have cool pictures or video for my ideas. I am an aural learner and a verbal thinker. I listen, read, and write to process information. I don’t know nuthin’ bout no multimedia. That’s fineRead More “Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting In For-Profits? Now With Pictures!”
“And then SHE said…” A Thought Experiment
In the course of my research I receive a lot of feedback. I mean, a LOT of feedback. You’ve not lived until the masseuse knocking the comp exams knots out of your back starts to assail you about how much she paid for an unaccredited certificate. Do you know how many times I’ve been verballyRead More ““And then SHE said…” A Thought Experiment”
Talking For-Profits
The lovely Kali-Ahset Amen invited me to speak about some of my work on for-profit colleges on WRFG in Atlanta, GA. As is my usual schtick, I attempted to discuss the topic more broadly to include questions of race, gender, class, and access. Click to listen: tressieshow-tressietalk Many thanks to my friend, Jade Davis, for theRead More “Talking For-Profits”