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For God, For country, For college, Forever: A Few Thoughts on #ObamasHigherEdPlan 24 Aug 2013 | 01:47 am
Twas a big day in higher education news yesterday. Barack Obama gave a major speech on college affordability. He laid out several proposals to push down college costs, student loan burdens, and foster...
Bulletproof Big Mommas: Black Women Cannot Stop Bullets #atl 21 Aug 2013 | 09:58 pm
Yesterday a man entered an Atlanta middle school with a semi-automatic weapon intending to kill some cops with as public a platform as possible. Antoinette Tuff is a clerk at the school. The gunman i...
The Privilege of Righteous Indignation and Why You’re Not The Boss of Me 16 Aug 2013 | 11:21 pm
I have piece in Slate on for-profit college students. The TL;DR version: critique structures and not people; descriptive statistics are not prescriptive; respect for-profit students’ agency even whil...
The Ridiculous Excesses of For-Profit College Marketing** 7 Aug 2013 | 11:52 pm
**Note: I have mentioned that I rarely do line edits on blog posts. Many have surely noticed. I can rarely type quickly enough to keep up with my internal dialogue, hence most of my writing flaws appe...
Papers, Presentations, For-Profits, Social Media and Justice 5 Aug 2013 | 09:35 pm
The season of U.S. sociology professionalization is upon us. This year will be my most active as the American Sociology Conference joins the American Black Sociologists and the Sociologists for Women...
A Bechdel-ish Test for Higher Ed “Disruption” 3 Aug 2013 | 06:02 am
It’s not that I am unsympathetic to higher education’s many issues — particularly inequality, rising tuition, and corporatization — but the higher education disruption narrative has pushed me to the e...
Data are Data, Analysis is Art 2 Aug 2013 | 07:12 pm
Most of the literature in my field comes from economists, education researchers that more often than not employ econometric models, and quantitative macro sociologists. There is nothing wrong with th...
Drive-By Thoughts: Making Dollars and Sense of Don Lemon’s Logic 30 Jul 2013 | 10:07 am
Don Lemon recently joined a storied list of black public figures that have, throughout the years, chided the black community’s cultural failings. Lemon not only agreed with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly’s p...
Reconfiguring My Public Writing Position 23 Jul 2013 | 10:10 pm
I have had some kind of blog, both private and public, for over ten years now. As I transitioned into academia I found public writing immensely gratifying and helpful. I have written that social media...
Red Flag Schools: Who Is Accountable for High Student Loan Defaults? 3 Jul 2013 | 04:13 am
Big report about student loan defaults is making the rounds today: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/02/college-default-rates-higher-than-grad-rates/2480295/ I read the Education Sec...
