Sat.Apr 19, 2025

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Why College Matters: Out of Touch with Social Class Realities

Higher Education Inquirer

Serve Marketing's Why College Matters media campaign stacks the deck in favor of higher education and expects consumers to believe the story they tell. The problem with this campaign, and its anonymous funders, is that for many folks, college (and life after college) is problematic at best and oppressive at worst. The Higher Education Disconnect: What Survey Results Miss About Americans' Real Concerns The Why College Matters campaign presents data suggesting Americans' perceptions of higher educ

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Trump’s political bullying of Harvard will do nothing to foster diversity of thought | Kenan Malik

The Guardian Higher Education

Substituting liberal biases with conservative will only serve to subvert academic objectivity Few people want to live in an echo chamber. Many have no problem being friends with those who vote differently to the way they do. And many would probably agree with John Stuart Mill that he who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that that to truly know ones own argument, one must also know the arguments of those who disagree.