Tag: higher ed

Education is not and Should NOT be a “Business”

Why We Shouldn’t Think About College as a Business –By KRISTIN WONG–JULY 31, 2017 — New York Times– The shift from viewing college as a public good to seeing it as a private benefit has led to higher education becoming…

Austerity is NOT the Answer to CT’s Budget Crisis

No Revenue + Program Cuts for CT Budget Will Make You Cry – Here’s Why: People will die – Cuts to social service programs and medical services mean health care will be harder to get for: A. People with disabilities,…

Attack on Free Speech and Academic Freedoms

Old Criticisms, New Threats Professors are often lightning rods, but many see a new menace to academic freedom in recent physical threats against faculty members who speak out on race and other issues. Colleen Flaherty–June 26, 2017 — Inside Higher…

How Long Will It Take For CT To Dream– Now Is The Time

Dreamers Continue Advocacy Effort by Jack Kramer, CTNewsJunkie HARTFORD, CT — Trying to pass legislation to give immigrant students access to financial aid at Connecticut’s public colleges and universities has always been a toss-up issue, and the recent arrest of…

Don’t Close Community Colleges

Closing Connecticut Community Colleges Wrongheaded CSCU President Mark Ojakian at a town hall meeting in Middletown on proposed cuts and reorganization to the state colleges and universities system. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)  By ELIZABETH KEIFER — opinion in Hartford…

Inequality University – Yale et al

Inequality University FREDDIE DEBOER  Jacobin Ivy League universities fuel social inequality at the same time public colleges are cut to the bone. They deserve to be dismantled. Yale University in August 1997. Kent Kanouse / Flickr       Today,…

2500 Protest at Yale Graduation – Fast Ends

Fasts End As Grads, Protesters Fill Streets by LUCY GELLMAN | May 22, 2017 3:13 pm – New Haven Independent Paul Bass Photo Two separated seas of gowns — one orange, one black — replaced cars on New Haven’s streets, as…