I believe Diverse Issues of Higher Education has produced it’s annual “Top 100 Degree Producers of [insert ethnic/racial minority]” since the 1990s. The publication used to be called Black Issues in Higher Education and the earliest citation I can find in ERIC is 1994. It may predate archiving. If anyone knows that history exactly I’dRead More “Top ?: Race, Gender, Credentialism”
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Debbie Downerism: John Oliver and For-Profit Colleges
One of the better things about social media is that if you manage to curate social feeds with just the right balance of entertaining spirits and brilliant intellects, it delivers unto you amazing content you would have otherwise missed. I woke up one of these days — Sunday? Monday? I’m dissertating — to find dozensRead More “Debbie Downerism: John Oliver and For-Profit Colleges”
Round-up of Berkman Center Notes and Reflections
I have to thank the entire crew at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard for hosting me yesterday. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CJzIXG0T1A&w=560&h=315] The room was quite full and the audience brought it. We talked about debt, identity, space, place, platforms, policy, and culture. It kept me on my toes while the incredible support of myRead More “Round-up of Berkman Center Notes and Reflections”
Democratizing Ideologies and Inequality Regimes – Berkman Center Primer
I’m very excited to speak at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society tomorrow. The talk is open to the public (with RSVP) and streaming online. I used to post references and slides for my talks but somewhere along the line I either talked too much or posted too little. But, I am synthesizing quiteRead More “Democratizing Ideologies and Inequality Regimes – Berkman Center Primer”
Reparations: What the Education Gospel Cannot Fix
I promise you I don’t know Coates from Adam’s cousin Leroy. I stopped attending the Thursday night Black People Meetings ™ ages ago when gas crossed $2 a gallon. But, I know that Coates has written a thing at The Atlantic making the case for reparations. This is good. When I teach my inequality courseRead More “Reparations: What the Education Gospel Cannot Fix”
Rationalization of Higher Education: Working Draft
I have talked a hole in the ozone about the theoretical approaches to privatization, higher education, and inequality. Gaye Tuchman and I took up some preliminary work on a synthesized framework for these concerns. The chapter is forthcoming from Wiley press this year. This working draft conceptualizes rationalization in higher education as a means-end schemaRead More “Rationalization of Higher Education: Working Draft”
At UW-Madison: Race/Class/Gender and the Credentialing Organization
First, I’d like to accept responsibility for climate change. It seems everywhere I travel this week, snow follows. At least this week I am at UW-Madison where snow is evidence of normal weather patterns, unlike the U.S. South. I have mentioned my study of for-profit students. I spent about a year interviewing students at for-profit collegesRead More “At UW-Madison: Race/Class/Gender and the Credentialing Organization”
Inequality, NOT Ignorance: Race/Class/Gender and For-Profit Colleges
The Race Workshop at Duke’s Sociology department invited me to speak about my research with for-profit students. I’d like to thank everyone who attended. The talk was well-attended and my hosts were exceedingly generous. A special thank you to Duke’s Robert Reece, Kieran Healy, and Angel Harris for their support and feedback. Robert and BrianRead More “Inequality, NOT Ignorance: Race/Class/Gender and For-Profit Colleges”
The Pell Grant Poll Tax
When I first saw the online poll at Education Next, I said a lot of dirty words. A lot. See, I’ve been here before. Rather, people like me have been here before. But, I get ahead of myself. Thanks to a policy recommendation from the fine folks at the Brookings Institute there is an honest-to-GodRead More “The Pell Grant Poll Tax”
For-Profit Colleges: What’s Race Got To Do With It?
This week I will presenting findings from my study on race, class, gender and for-profit colleges. There is a sense that race has something to do with for-profit college enrollment. There are the brown faces in ads and Claire Huxtable as the official voice of the University of Phoenix. Trend data certainly supports this visceralRead More “For-Profit Colleges: What’s Race Got To Do With It?”