“Free or low-cost college used to be the norm, but now, as austerity measures saddle students with debt and create precarious conditions for many academic workers, American politicians create policy that treats higher education as a luxury. And today, college remains a weapon in the culture wars, with attacks on affirmative action, diversity, equity and inclusion, critical race theory and academic freedom. America has the opportunity to return to the days before the Reagan education cuts and restore college as a public good rather than a profit center.”
With quote from HELU interim chair Todd Wolfson.
READ: David A. Love in the Washington Post: “America’s student loan crisis stems from a war on education as a public good“