https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/09/penn-president-resigns-00130961

edX is a massive open online course provider (MOOC) created by Harvard and MIT that is now selling elite and brand name tech bootcamps. edX's website advertises coding and AI bootcamps from a number of name brands: Ohio State University, Columbia... —  read more 

https://www.newsweek.com/harvard-faces-another-legal-fight-over-its-admissions-1810585

A People's History of US Higher Education is sorely needed, not as a purely academic work to gather dust on shelves, or as internet click bait, but as a way to assess how our nation moves forward as a democracy--or as something less. To make history... —  read more 

https://www.theheagroup.com/blog/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new-rating-higher-ed-by-economic-mobility

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/12/metro/donations-colleges-climb-divide-between-have-have-nots-widens/

"If your school misled you or engaged in other misconduct in violation of certain state laws, you may be eligible for “borrower defense to loan repayment,” sometimes shortened to “borrower defense.” This is the discharge of some or all of your... —  read more 

https://badnews.substack.com/p/two-harvard-grads-went-to-africa

"Harvard Academic Workers–UAW is trying to organize about 6,000 such employees across Harvard's three main campuses, the prospective union said in a news release. It said workers will sign authorization cards in the coming... —  read more 

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/10/20/klapper-social-mobility/ https://www.thirdway.org/report/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new-rating-higher-ed-by-economic-mobility https://www.chronicle.com/article/against-social-mobility-rankings —  read more 

https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2022/11/university-of-california-academic.html https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-23/uc-grad-student-workers-ratify-labor-agreement-end-historic-strike-with-big-wage-gains

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/11/senior-fellow-penny-pritzker-shares-update-on-ongoing-search-for-new-president/

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/21/rah-rah/#sis-bo-m-bah

https://www.thelayoff.com/ucb https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/03/university-california-academic-workers-overwhelmingly-vote-strike

It's easier to fish in murky waters.

Harvard was built by thieves, and little has changed.... https://aydelotte.swarthmore.edu/publications/a-conversation-with-charlie-eaton/

Just in case you didn't know, class matters... https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-maintaining-class-inequality-at-any-cost-is-gops-guiding-mission/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/08/14/harvard-flunks-this-college-ranking/

US Civil War II: a battle between the Christian Right and the Neoliberals Republicans likely to win House and possibly Senate in November Christian Right using the Hungary (Orban) playbook Big Bank Biden perceived as weak-very weak for... —  read more 

"The proceeds of the acquisition will be used by a nonprofit led by Harvard and MIT that will focus on closing the learning and opportunity gap through the development of new partnerships, digital tools, and strategies. The nonprofit will devote... —  read more 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereknewton/2022/05/16/its-been-a-brutal-year-for-public-education-companies/amp/

$100 million in reparations is nothing, when you consider the damage done over the last 4 centuries... —  read more 

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dahn-shaulis_college-meltdown-21-activity-6924197545401364480-_P45?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=android_app

Ever wonder how much of the Harvard Endowment has come through insider trading and blood money?

When we talk about Harvard University in 2022, are we talking about one fascism or two? I'm thinking about the Larry Summers type (neoliberal globalist) versus the Clayton Christensen/HBS type (technofascism)? Are they part of one oppression or... —  read more 

"Elite universities like Harvard and Penn are using their tax-exempt status to rob public coffers blind. The solution is easy: tax... —  read more 

Here's historical context for understanding faculty and the College Meltdown. Bousquet was a genius, with articles like this, and the classic, "How the University Works." Much of his work is available for free. ... —  read more 

https://ctas.substack.com/p/the-semi-rich-and-elite-overproduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9UCvn_YdJE https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2021/07/academic-capitalism-and-next-phase-of.html

Has Harvard really changed much since Samuel Huntington? "The calls in that decade to democratize the university and open it up to minorities of race and color were considered by many liberals and conservatives as dangerous expressions of dissent... —  read more 

Don't take it personally, it's just efficiency moving it's way up the food chain. https://bryanalexander.org/classes-and-teaching/learning-innovation-theory-one-exercise/

What drives US higher education and Harvard University. https://higheredinquirer.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-tragedy-of-human-capital-theory-in.html

"This new phase, with roots in the 1980s involves the growth of the educated underclass, the privatization of public higher ed, the growth of online program managers (OPMs) working for name brand schools, for-profit and non-profit subprime colleges... —  read more 

"Harvard University, already supported by a massive $41 billion endowment, is getting nearly $9 million in taxpayer aid from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, the U.S. Department of Education... —  read more 

"We live in an economic system that is unsustainable, unjust, and exploitative. Many of us in academia and the thought industry have known this for decades. Others with great wisdom have known this for centuries. Techies and disrupters think it can... —  read more 

"March 24, 1 p.m. The president of Harvard University has tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. In a letter to the university community, Lawrence Bacow said he and his wife, Adele, learned today they both tested... —  read more 

https://collegemeltdown.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-and-college-meltdown.html https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/timing-next-financial-crisis-under-construction-dahn-shaulis/?trk=mp-author-card

2U, an Online Program Manager to American University, Baylor University, George Washington University, Harvard University, Pepperdine University, Rice University, Syracuse University, University of California, Berkeley, University of North Carolina... —  read more 

Scarcity and exclusivity are key https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8QY0NDWqzk

A degree from Harvard is a great accomplishment. Even if it's online and taught by... https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/college-mania-c-apademia-dahn-shaulis/?published=t