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1/ #Crimea: #Ukraine #Grain #Scandal
Author –@CrimeanWind, #Telegram, Ukraine supporter
“#Saldo & #Aksyonov cannot share the #Stolen #Grain.
Recall that in the #Kherson region, the [#Russian]- ..continued
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#UkraineRussiaWar #Collaborators
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1/ #Crimea: #Ukraine #Grain #Scandal
Author –@CrimeanWind, #Telegram, Ukraine supporter
“#Saldo & #Aksyonov cannot share the #Stolen #Grain.
Recall that in the #Kherson region, the [#Russian]- ..continued
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#UkraineRussiaWar #Collaborators
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2/ #Crimea: #Ukraine #Grain #Scandal
“..[#Russian]-occupation authorities introduced "#Permits" for the #Export of #Grain. They’re issued by #Collaborator, #EduardRepilevsky, whom the #Russians..continued
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#UkraineRussiaWar #Betrayal #Coerced
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2/ #Crimea: #Ukraine #Grain #Scandal
“..[#Russian]-occupation authorities introduced "#Permits" for the #Export of #Grain. They’re issued by #Collaborator, #EduardRepilevsky, whom the #Russians..continued
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#UkraineRussiaWar #Betrayal #Coerced
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3/ #Crimea: #Ukraine #Grain #Scandal
“.[#Russian]-occupation authorities introduced "#Permits" for the #Export of #Grain. They are issued by #Collaborator, #EduardRepilevsky, whom the #Russians..continued
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#UkraineRussiaWar #Betrayal #Coerced
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3/ #Crimea: #Ukraine #Grain #Scandal
“.[#Russian]-occupation authorities introduced "#Permits" for the #Export of #Grain. They are issued by #Collaborator, #EduardRepilevsky, whom the #Russians..continued
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#UkraineRussiaWar #Betrayal #Coerced
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I spent about five years on the road talking to institutions, media, faculty, students about how tertiary “partners” like 2U brought the #LowerEd model into not-for-profit universities. I got tired. Money talks.
I had to tell my own institution that I would not partner with third-party vendors to create online graduate degrees. Because I had, uh, written a book called Lower Ed.
In that work and across those travels I saw no appetite for understanding how this works. The arrogance of elite institutions where leadership seemed to really believe they were elite enough that data did not apply to them was a real lesson for me.
I feel like bragging about my class discussion a bit. We were talking about how and why information communities ask questions and judge new information. Really relevant, right? #vax #etc
Well, I started class with a "current events" item, which I try to do almost every week. This week it was close to home (which is more true than I would like these days). UNC is cutting $5 million dollars from its library budget. wunc.org/education/2021…
I may know more than the typical professor about higher education funding and structural changes in higher ed finance. You will also want to look for a new book from @CharlieEatonPhD on financialization of higher ed press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/auth…
Adopt the 4profit enrollment machine and the degree upsell machine but keep your prestige. It was the hustle as far back as 2005. 
When I talked with elite uni presidents and administrators, they weren’t so much dismayed by what I detailed in #LowerEd as much as they were interested in HOW THEY COULD COPY THEIR SUCCESS. Masters degrees decreased regulatory risk, increased revenue, & made for pretty charts
I could have made a lot of money had I been willing to brand the right language for adopting for-profit enrollment forms, online degrees, and masters degrees for elite and selective institutions. To them, the crisis was competitiveness.
I'm happy to see an article that nibbles at the notion that education is a market where people necessarily act rationally, but why not take the whole step and just recognize there will never be a wholly rational (consumer) market for education? nytimes.com/2019/06/03/ups…
Or rather, recognize that the rationale for this market is housed not in economic theory, but sociology and @tressiemcphd's #LowerEd. The programs highlighted in the article are an example of a market that "makes our collective insecurity more profitable."
That schools explicitly or implicitly promising access to "dream" careers like the Academy of Art university can get people to take on gigantic loan debt isn't a problem of irrational markets. It's a consequence of human behavior in all its complicated glory.
Public university partners with The Rise Fund in for-profit education initiative targeting partial college completers who were hamstrung by high college costs. This is nothing to celebrate. ihenow.com/2Vn3BNy cc: @AnandWrites
Consider how this has worked. People can't complete college because of systemic issues which result in high costs and other barriers. The ultra-wealthy behind The Rise Fund have achieved this wealth propping up this system...
Now, ASU, the "new American university" will seek profit by selling access to education the partial-completers were denied by the system that benefitted the people behind The Rise Fund. What a great deal.
This is still all over my TL this morning so here are some reasons this is the wrong way to think about college. Long thread.
First, let’s unpack it. What Buttigieg is saying here is that college brings $$ to those who complete it. But the people who finish college are, on average, better off to start with. And even if they weren’t, they now have more earning power, b/c college.
So by charging them less than their actual cost of education, we are using the money of poorer non-college goers to pay for the educations of college-goers – who are either well-off to start with, or will be with their shiny new BAs.
There's a quote from the NYTimes write-up of the admissions bribery scandal that is a perfect encapsulation of @tressiemcphd's "LowerEd" thesis that #LowerEd exists in order to make elite higher ed more valuable. nytimes.com/2019/03/12/us/…
Notice the framing: the bribery cheated other hard-working kids out of a "chance at higher education." This language suggests that the only education worth having is one acquired at an elite institution. Otherwise, you've missed your chance.
We know that the quality of education at these elite institutions is no different than that available at thousands of other places, but because of #LowerEd those slots take on enormous value. The solution to the problem isn't to just raise LowerEd, it's to lower elite higher ed.
Yep literally a whole chapter about this in #LowerEd and sooooo much work left to do on why, how, to what ends. How are those programs structured? Racialized? Gendered? Outcomes? Private loan markets? Identity formation?
Most students I talked to had a very clear identity around their graduate work that draws on greater hustle of entrepreneurship and self-worth. A high price for moral credentialing.
No one knows what these outcomes look like and that's bananas.
I have had to stop telling any of my medical professionals what I study for a living, especially the natural/homeopathic ones. It ruins my appointment. I had an acupuncturist with almost $160k in debt.
My sense is that almost everything at the margins of "Healthcare" is shady af: "eastern" medicine, nutrition, holistic, naturopathy. In #Lowered I talk about how the veneer of medical field provides a lot of cover for dubious programs. IDK if it has gotten better or worse
For instance, have medical student loans in private market gotten more expansive?
Thanks, John. I hope EVERYONE reads the @ProPublica piece on Liberty with a side of #LowerEd @AlecMacGillis has done a great job showing how LowerEd is not only a #4profit phenomenon nytimes.com/2018/04/17/mag…
Let's read it together, shall we?
Let's read it together, shall we?
One thing I point out in the #LowerEd epilogue is that there is a political context to shifting legitimacy to corporate highered. The GOP isn't shy about it. It's their official policy platform. Of Liberty, Alec shows this nicely
It is the context that colleagues like @Lollardfish @ldburnett @reclaimUC have tirelessly researched, written about and archived: the culture wars never ended. They merely transformed and became more deeply ingrained in "legitimate" political discourse
