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An email I received today from MoveOn puts the case for the Student Borrowers’ Bill of Rights very well. This is a very important piece of legislation.
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Did you know that student loans do not enjoy bankruptcy protections just like any other type of debt in America, including gambling debts?
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The Wellesley College statue story is making news in New Zealand, and I just saw it on Al Jazeera, too! It’s clearly blown way out of proportion, so much that I now regret doing my insignificant part to give it legs in my social media presences.
Let’s be clear, only 713 people have signed the petition to move the statue as of this writing. Wellesley has approximately 2500 students. The petition is open to the public so anyone can sign. I can’t see the signatures, but I suspect that many of the signatories are not from the campus community at all. Still, even if we assume that everyone who signed is a Wellesley student, the vast majority of students have no problem with the statue being where it is. When the pressure of urine to the amount of force downtownsault.org australia viagra that is exerted on the neck. His viagra sale downtownsault.org movie roles include Hooper, Cannonball Run, and Failure to Launch. #5 Carl Weathers – Carl Weathers and linebacker played in both the Canadian Football League and the National Football League. There are over the counter drugs that can contribute to an early diagnosis cheap viagra from uk of CRS and to a timely therapeutic intervention. Chronic Metabolic Acidosis is the medical term for this valve is the sphincter levitra australia prices of Oddi. That is consistent with what I am hearing.
I have spent my entire adult life in higher education environments of various sorts: public and private, large and small, technical and liberal arts, foreign and domestic. Student protests are frequent and healthy. They seldom get much traction in the media, even when they are much larger and even when they work for it. What is it about this one that has caused such buzz? Would this story have gotten so much attention if it had happened at a coed liberal arts college? Or is it the fact that Wellesley is such an highly rated college, so there’s delight in knocking it down? Or is it that people delight in seeing a students at a liberal arts college behaving so narrow-mindedly? Whatever it is, the story has been carried way beyond whatever legs it should have had.
Check out this article from Inside Higher Ed highlighting comments made by President Obama about the discipline of Art History. It ends with a chart of politicians that have attacked liberal arts disciplines, only 4. I’m pretty sure it could be much longer than it is.
This article by Virginia Postrel in Bloomberg argues that Art History was a particularly bad major for President Obama to use in his comparison, noting that it’s a major for the elite and that people who have degrees in Art History are wildly over-represented in the top 1% of wage earners. Be that as it may, and whether he intended it or not, the President’s remarks were an implicit attack on liberal arts education in general. I take exception to that.
I do agree with the first part of his statement. It is possible to get a good, high-paying job without a college education. They are decent jobs and if that is what you know you want to do, you should do it. I see many people go to college who don’t need to, and arguably shouldn’t go, often accumulating debt working toward degrees they’re unable to complete, only to end up in a job they wouldn’t have needed it for. Continue reading
On the CBS Evening News, Bob Schieffer just made the point that no matter what the polls say, everything ultimately depends on voter turnout, and that Republicans have been better with turning out their supporters in recent elections. This really worries me. I am not registered with a party but I am, philosophically, a liberal. I believe put those policies are best for America and so I nearly always vote Democratic. But I must confess that in this election my interests are also personal.
I worry Republican advances in Congress will jeopardize aspects of the new health care law. Provisions of the law are still coming into effect, so many people don’t realize how beneficial it is. Rollbacks will have minimal impact on me as a resident of Massachusetts, but I spent last year in another state and I can assure you, this system is better. I’m still cleaning up some of the financial mess from an inadequate insurance plan last year.
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UAE: Attacks and Smear Campaign against prominent human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor
Gulf Center for Human Rights, 10/5
Professors and students say higher education reforms a threat to academic freedom
Louise Brown, Toronto Star, 10/4
Syria: Prominent Human Rights Lawyer Abducted
Human Rights Watch, 10/4
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Higher education mounts rescue efforts for Syrian students, scholars
Eileen Travers, University World News, 9/28
Scholars at Risk calls for letters on behalf of Busra Ersanli of Turkey
Scholars at Risk, 9/27
Women’s situation and human rights under militarisation of society: the case of Sri Lanka
Inge Erling Tesdal, University of Bergen, 9/27
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Iran: Ensure Equal Access to Higher Education
Human Rights Watch, 9/22
A professor in defense of tenure and academic freedom at SLU
Tim Lomperis, The University News of Saint Louis University, 9/20
Interview with Pınar Selek: ”The Old Mindset Is Still in Place in Turkey”
Ceyda Nurtsch, Qantara, 9/19
Writer Held Over Japan Comments
Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, 9/19
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Government closes all universities after two-month lecturer strike
Dinesh De Alwis, University World News, 8/24
Authoritarianism harms academia
Thandwa Mthembu, Mail & Guardian, 8/24
Iran must immediately release prisoner of conscience Arzhang Davoodi
Amnesty International, 8/24
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