The Companies They Keep
On Crony Capitalism, Partisan Hackery, and Higher Education The economist Luigi Zingales published an interesting op-ed in the New York Times on June 13 titled “The College Graduate as Collateral,” in...
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In a recent post, I set out to discuss a proposal by the University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales that advocated equity financing of higher education, which he outlined in a June 2012 New York...
View ArticleI Woke Up This Morning in a “Right-to-Work” State
It really happened. And in Michigan, of all places. On December 6, 2012, Republicans in the Michigan state legislature rammed through two so-called “right to work” (RTW) bills during a lame-duck...
View ArticleThe Quasi-Sentient Professor
Cross-posted at Daily Kos. A few weeks ago, a friend and colleague who works in a creative discipline at the very fine but underfunded non-flagship state university where I work as a professor of...
View ArticleThe Vernacular of Privilege
Cross-posted to FunctionalShift (my linguistics blog) and Daily Kos. This post is adapted from a presentation I gave recently as part of the Race Matters Lyceum Lecture Series at the Lee Honors...
View ArticleCollege Presidents Selling Out to Gov. Rick Snyder?
Cross-posted at Daily Kos. Those of us who live in the United States are fortunate to live in a country in which we are all free to speak our minds, including with respect to the political candidates...
View ArticleCampus Cops vs. University Professors
Cross-posted at DailyKos. WMU faculty rally on September 5, 2014. (Photos by Larry J. Simon.) On occasion on these pages, I have written about higher education and about labor rights, mostly in the...
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