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Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumCommon Dreams: Higher Ed for Bernie
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/22/higher-ed-bernieIt is past time to reverse this irrational and antisocial trend. Three decades of politicians from both parties have been too willing, even eager, to subordinate the aspirations, security, and opportunities of the American people on the altar of the billionaire classs whims and greed. The assaults on public higher education stem from the same sources as attacks on public K-12 education, on the U.S. Postal Service and other public services, the same sources that created the abomination of a health care system dominated by predatory insurance and pharmaceutical industries, and the obscenity of a ballooning, increasingly privatized carceral state.
The 2016 presidential race can be our opportunity to turn the tide. The Bernie Sanders campaign is committed to a clear and emphatic reassertion of the importance of public goods and the public sector that provides them, including public higher education in particular. His College for All Act would eliminate undergraduate tuition at 4-year public colleges and universities, thus making a powerful statement about the central importance of higher education as a public good. It would also take serious steps to relieve and reverse the crippling burden of student loan debt and the exploitation of adjunct labor. And it would strengthen faculty tenure systems, themselves under attack by conservative forces.
Bernie Sanders is the only candidate seeking the nomination from either party who has made such a serious and concrete proposal and demonstrated such resolute commitment to higher education. That is high among the reasons we as faculty, students, staff, parents and others concerned with higher education endorse and support his campaign enthusiastically and urge others who share those concerns to join with us.
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Common Dreams: Higher Ed for Bernie (Original Post)
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Oct 2015
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tecelote
(5,122 posts)1. One of the big reasons Republicans hate free public education is that...
educated people vote for democrats.
Uneducated people require lower wages and act like sheep. They are easily manipulated with fear and require few, if any, facts since emotion is their driving force.
No offense to uneducated people intended. Only to their manipulative Republican overlords.
in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)3. Hence, FOX NEWS.
in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)2. Wonderful! Signed by:
Signed,
Cornel West, Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice, Union Theological Seminary
Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Rogers M. Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Associate Dean for Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Michele Barry, Dean for Global Health, Stanford University
Barbara Katz-Rothman, Professor of Sociology, Public Health & Womens Studies, City University of New York.
Ruth Milkman, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center; Research Director, Murphy Institute, CUNY; President, American Sociological Association
James M. Jasper, Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Adolph Reed, Jr., Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Carl Hart, Associate Professor of Psychology, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, Columbia University
Jack Hammond, Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York
Walter Benn Michaels, Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago
RoseAnn DeMoro, Director, National Nurses United
Vivek Chibber, Professor of Sociology, New York University
Kenneth W. Warren, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of English, University of Chicago
Larry Cohen, Past President, Communications Workers of America and Advisor Bernie 2016
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Associate Professor of Individualized Studies and Sociology, Director of the Urban Democracy Lab at the Gallatin School and Senior Fellow, Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University
Robert W. McChesney, Gutgsell Endowed Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Doug Henwood, Editor of the Left Business Observer and Contributing Editor at The Nation
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Costas Panayotakis, Professor of Sociology, New York City College of Technology (CUNY)
Heather Gautney, Associate Professor of Sociology, Fordham University
Huck Gutman, Professor of English, University of Vermont
Willie Legette, Associate Professor of Political Science, South Carolina State University
Jeffrey A. Winters, Professor of Politics and Director of the Equality Development and Globalization Studies Program, Northwestern University
Wendy Brown, Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
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Michael Hardt, Professor of Literature, Duke University
Leon Fink, UIC Distinguished Professor of History, University Illinois at Chicago
Touré F. Reed, Associate Professor of History, Illinois State University
Kathi Weeks, Associate Professor, Womens Studies Program, Duke University
Robert Garot, Associate Professor and Sociology Coordinator, Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Doctoral Faculty in Sociology, Graduate Center
Astrid OBrien, Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Fordham University
D. Alexander Bateman, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Cornell University
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Merlin Chowkwanyun, Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University
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Bruno Gulli, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Philosophy and Political Science, Kingsborough Community College CUNY
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Anne Norton, Professor of Political Science, The University of Pennsylvania
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tecelote
(5,122 posts)4. Wonderful +1!
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)5. K&R
"Three decades of politicians from both parties have been too willing, even eager, to subordinate the aspirations, security, and opportunities of the American people on the altar of the billionaire classs whims and greed."
There are those who stand with the billionaires aspirations and there are those unaffiliated with Wall St.