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eridani

(51,907 posts)
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 04:03 AM Oct 2015

Common Dreams: Higher Ed for Bernie

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/22/higher-ed-bernie

It 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 class’s 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) eridani Oct 2015 OP
One of the big reasons Republicans hate free public education is that... tecelote Oct 2015 #1
Hence, FOX NEWS. in_cog_ni_to Oct 2015 #3
Wonderful! Signed by: in_cog_ni_to Oct 2015 #2
Wonderful +1! tecelote Oct 2015 #4
K&R raouldukelives Oct 2015 #5

tecelote

(5,122 posts)
1. One of the big reasons Republicans hate free public education is that...
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 06:16 AM
Oct 2015

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)
2. Wonderful! Signed by:
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 06:18 AM
Oct 2015


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 & Women’s 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

Liza Featherstone, contributing writer to The Nation, and Adjunct Professor at the School of Journalism at NYU

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

Steve Striffler, Doris Zemurray Stone Chair in Latin American Studies and
Professor of Anthropology, University of New Orleans

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, Women’s 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 O’Brien, Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Fordham University

D. Alexander Bateman, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Cornell University

Luke Elliott-Negri, Research Analyst, The Murphy Institute for Worker Education, and PhD, Student, CUNY Graduate Center, Department of Sociology

Jeremy Matthew Glick Associate Professor English, Hunter College, CUNY

Merlin Chowkwanyun, Columbia University, Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences

Michael Zweig, Professor of Economics, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Steve Early, Pacific Media Workers Guild, TNG-CWA

Rand Wilson, Adjunct Professor, Labor Studies Center, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

John Halle, Director of Studies in Music Theory and Practice, Bard College

Steve Fraser, Co-founder of the American Empire Project and Editor-at-Large of the journal New Labor Forum.

Samir Sonti, Doctoral candidate in History at the University of California at Santa Barbara

Jeffrey J. Williams, Professor of English and of Literary and Cultural Studies
Carnegie Mellon University

Steven Hahn, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, The University of Pennsylvania

Jon Queally, Senior Editor and Staff Writer, Commondreams

Howard Botwinick, Associate Professor of Economics, SUNY-Cortland

Merlin Chowkwanyun, Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University

Ted Swedenburg, Professor of Anthropology, University of Arkansas

Nancy Fraser, Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Politics and Philosophy
New School for Social Research

Gordon Lafer, Associate Professor, Labor Education and Research Center & Political Science, University of Oregon

Bruno Gulli, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Philosophy and Political Science, Kingsborough Community College – CUNY

Nicholas Brown, Associate Professor, English & African American Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago

Noel Kent, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Hawai’i at Mãnoa

Max Page, Professor of Architecture and History, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Anne Norton, Professor of Political Science, The University of Pennsylvania

Lester Spence, Associate Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins

Norman H. Edelman, Professor, Preventive and Internal Medicine Program in Public Health, Stony Brook University

Inger L. Stole, Professor of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jennifer Ashton, Associate Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago and Vice President Chief Steward, UIC United Faculty

Deborah Gambs, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Science & Human Services at BMCC

Michelle Ronda, Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice, Department of Social Sciences, Human Services & Criminal Justice, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY

Andrew Gunnoe, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Maryville College

Jamie McCallum, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Middlebury College

Joe Amato, Assistant Professor of English, Illinois State University

Susan Kang, Associate Professor of Political Science, City University of New York

David Golumbia, Associate Professor, English, Virginia Commonwealth University

Nicholas J. Kiersey, PhD, Associate Professor, Political Science, Ohio University

Stuart Shafer, Professor, Sociology, Chair, Sustainable Agriculture
Johnson County Community College

Leslie Salzinger, Associate Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies
University of California, Berkeley

Eric M. Fink, Associate Professor of Law, Elon University School of Law

Christine A. Kelly, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the American Democracy Project, William Paterson University

Kelly Mayhew, Professor of English, Humanities, and Gender Studies, San Diego City College

Jim Miller, Professor of English, Humanities, and Labor Studies, San Diego City College

Preston H. Smith II, Professor of Politics, Mt. Holyoke College

Daniel T. Kirsch, Associate Professor of Political Science, Valley Forge Military College

Jill Hamburg, Adjunct Professor of English, Drew University

Jessica Blatt, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Marymount Manhattan College

Lyle Jeremy Rubin, PhD Candidate in History, University of Rochester

Marc Bousquet, Associate Professor, Department of Film and Media, Emory University

Nathaniel Cline, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Redlands

Rhys C. Dubin, BA in the Humanities, Yale University

Charles Kadushin, Professor, Brandeis University

Gerald Handel, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, The City College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Thomas DeGloma, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hunter College, CUNY

David C. Brotherton Professor of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Graduate Center, CUNY

Mary Summers, Senior Fellow, Fox Leadership Program and Lecturer, Political Science Department, University of Pennsylvania

Tulia Falleti, Class of 1965 Term Associate Professor of Political Science
Senior Fellow Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Jane Kauer, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania






raouldukelives

(5,178 posts)
5. K&R
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 06:48 AM
Oct 2015

"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 class’s whims and greed."

There are those who stand with the billionaires aspirations and there are those unaffiliated with Wall St.

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