Who is Marc Rowan? The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Higher Ed Loyalty Oath & How We Fight Back
Billionaire Marc Rowan, CEO of the private equity giant Apollo Global Management, is a key author of the Trump administration’s “Compact” for higher ed—a loyalty oath that would award federal research funding based on allegiance to Trump’s far right ideological agenda, roll back the gains of the civil rights movement, and erode the freedoms to teach, learn, and speak. Learn about Rowan’s agenda, how he and other private equity executives exercise outsized power in higher education, how Apollo has contributed to the student debt crisis —and how we can fight back. Register here.
This webinar is open to AAUP & AFT members, higher ed and healthcare workers, union members, and student groups. This is NOT a press event. Members of the press can reach out for comment at aaup-news@aaup.org.
Presenters:
- Eileen Appelbaum, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, coauthor of Private Equity At Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street, and Advisory Committee, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative on financialization of healthcare
- Charlie Eaton, Associate Professor of Sociology at UC-Merced and author of Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in Higher Education
- Lenore Palladino, Associate Professor of Economics & Public Policy at UMass Amherst, author of Good Company: Economic Policy after Shareholder Primacy, and advisory council member, Private Equity Stakeholder Project
- Maureen Tkacik, investigations editor at the American Prospect
