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””

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?”

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””

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”