November 2011
11 posts
And many of our students take out loans, maintain...
Here’s a piece I read in the Boston Globe this morning. The author reports that students with college financial needs who don’t take out loans are less likely to complete their college education. Ah, the problem of the public higher education campus administrator who has bought into the higher cost/higher financial aid model for running a public higher education campus. This is...
Worth a read: the value of a college degree
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/magazine/changing-rules-for-success.html?_r=1&hp
A reminder about teachers' unions
In the vain hope that facts might actually penetrate the thick heads on the other side:
Critics have long alleged that teacher unions hinder student performance and educational progress. No empirical or credible research has ever been offered to substantiate these allegations. The only five states that do not permit collective bargaining for teachers are all near the very bottom in student...
From our "Friends" at the Boston Foundation
If only it were a farce….
The Commonwealth cuts funding to public higher education, so there are fewer full-time faculty, and fewer services to support our students.
The Commonwealth raises tuition and fees, making our students work longer and making it more likely that they will drop out.
And then the Boston Foundation spends lots of money on writing a report that says that the real...
Student Debt Default Campaign
Coming out of one of the Occupy Wall Street working groups is this campaign, is a movement calling on students to sign onto a pledge to default on their student loans if one million students sign on, and to ask faculty to support their students stand against the student loan system which has shackled students to tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt for decades. The movement...
A powerful statement by a UC Davis faculty member
http://wp.me/pdWkR-5F
Money from casinos will flow to public higher...
From today’s Daily Hampshire Gazette, a report about PHENOM’s successful efforts to guarantee that public higher education would benefit from casinos in Massachusetts.
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California Faculty Union goes on Strike →
thousands of faculty members made history by participating in the first-ever strike of the California State University system.
The message to the Chancellor was loud and clear from six in the morning until dark: “If you don’t start making decisions based on what is right for the 99% this system serves – instead of the 1% of executives and upper managers running the system — these actions will...
Report from Occupy Wall Street, N17
Here a brief report from the November 17 Occupy Wall Street events. I arrived intending to meet up with my colleague Dan Clawson. But on the train I got a note that Dan had been arrested that morning, in the efforts by protesters to stop business downtown. Dan was one of a group of protesters who sat in the middle of an intersection, at Nassau and Pine, again police orders. (Dan was release...
