Tuesday, July 22, 2025

San Diego Community Joins 'Out of CECOT' Nationwide Protest Against ICE Arrest Practices in Chula Vista, Thursday July 24th 10 AM

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WHAT:  Protest against recent increase in Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests and targeting of non-violent, no...

Neoliberalism, Accreditation, and the Endless Reinvention of Higher Ed Scams

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Fraudsters are like cockroaches: persistent, hard to eliminate, and always scurrying just beneath the surface. And like cockroaches, when yo...

Savoring and Saving: Living Better (and a Little Slower) with Less

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For many American adults, the promises of education, hard work, and social mobility have not matched the reality of their lives. Instead of ...

Crisis Talk as Business Strategy: A Review of a Chronicle of Higher Education Mass Email

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On July 22, 2025, The Chronicle of Higher Education distributed a mass email promoting an upcoming online event titled “The Path Ahead for ...
Monday, July 21, 2025

Cheryl Crazy Bull's Keynote Address to Oglala Lakota College Grads: Look to Your Culture (American Indian College Fund)

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Cheryl Crazy Bull, President and CEO of the American Indian College Fund , was the 2025 keynote speaker for Oglala Lakota College’s graduati...

Campus Journalism in the Shadows: Publishing What Colleges Won’t

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Student journalists often do the work of professional reporters: digging into campus finances, tracking misconduct, documenting protests. Bu...

Caltech Settlement Spotlights Critical Need for OPM Transparency and Oversight in Higher Education

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A recent Republic Report article by Jeremy Bauer-Wolf outlines the terms of a legal settlement between the California Institute of Technolog...

Linda McMahon’s Holocaust-Denial Response Sets Off Alarm Bells

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In a tense moment during a recent House Education and Workforce Committee hearing, Education Secretary Linda McMahon faced sharp criticism f...

Borrower Defense Stories: The Human Cost of Higher Education Fraud

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Over the past month, the Higher Education Inquirer has chronicled the experiences of borrowers misled by predatory institutions—mainly for-p...

The Disillusioned Young Man and Higher Ed in the US

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Across the United States, growing numbers of young men are dropping out—of college, of the labor market, and of public life. They are disill...

Student Aid and Student Gambling: A Risky Connection (Glen McGhee)

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A growing body of research points to an unsettling trend on U.S. college campuses: a significant percentage of students are using financial ...

The Rich Life: Joy, Asceticism, Solidarity—and a Rejection of GDP Thinking

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In a society obsessed with growth, speed, and accumulation, the phrase “the rich life” is most often used to describe an existence of luxur...

Digital Dope: How Internet Addiction Mirrors the Great Crises of Gin, Opium, Meth, and Fentanyl

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In the 18th century, gin swept through the working-class neighborhoods of London, offering brief euphoria and long-term devastation. In the ...

How Neoliberalism Haunts Our Lives: 24/7/365

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Neoliberalism isn’t just an economic theory or a dry policy framework. It’s a lived reality that operates around the clock, shaping our live...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Borrower Defense Story 4: Fashion Gone Bad for Private Student Loan Borrower (Depressed Debtor)

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As many high school students start looking for higher education options as graduation approaches, I had no idea what I was looking for. My ...

Liberty University Online: Master’s Degree Debt Factory

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Liberty University , one of the largest Christian universities in the United States, has built an educational empire by promoting conservati...

Right-Wing Hillsdale College Targeting MSN Readers for Donations

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Hillsdale College—a small, private Christian liberal arts institution in Michigan—has increasingly turned to digital advertising, including ...

To compare is to despair

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"Comparison is the thief of joy." —often attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, and weaponized daily by the digital world we live in. ...