The activists included #FederalistSociety leader #LeonardLeo &his ideological soulmate, a hard-edged activist named #GinniThomas, the wife of #SCOTUS Justice #ClarenceThomas.
“Ginni really wanted to build an organization & be a movement leader. Leonard [Leo] was going to be the conduit of that” said a person familiar….
She also had… #HarlanCrow, the… #billionaire who helped Thomas & her husband in many ways, from #funding #luxury #vacations to picking up #tuition payments for their great-nephew.

It's not too late to enroll in Late Start college classes! Ken Der takes a walk around campus with President Dr. Diana Bajrami to see what's going on at the College of Alameda, including a new building, "Fall is Free" tuition assistance, and career-focused programs.

https://alamedapost.com/features/alameda-life/coa-puts-the-community-in-community-college/

#alameda #CoA #CollegeOfAlameda #CommunityCollege #DrDianaBajrami #DreamAct #fafsa #FallIsFree #tuition

Weiner and Newsom gutted #CEQA instead of solving the problem of private unaffordable housing: luxury units with amenities that students say they don’t need and increasing pressure on the cost of other #student #housing in the #private #rental market. In many cases #studentdebt load is as much about housing costs as it is about #tuition.
#regulatorycapture #SocialHousingNow #RightToHousing

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/30/student-accommodation-university-housing-crisis

Show this to your Parents: Scientific Truth about WHY Your TUITION is so Expensive?

Do share everywhere you can.

#tuition #college #university

https://thesciencerant.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-science-of-tuition-and-student-loan.html

Colleges Spend Like There’s No Tomorrow. -- WSJ.com https://www.wsj.com/articles/state-university-tuition-increase-spending-41a58100?reflink=integratedwebview_share #college #tuition #spending #trends #USA #analysis

Ergebnis meines Schülers - NMM 👌

#kunstunterricht #tabletopworkshop #tuition #coachingwithaurelie

Zero surprise that colleges favor richer students who pay full #tuition over students paying discounted tuition. And tuition costs are outrageous. Colleges are making money hand over fist.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2023/07/24/1189443223/affirmative-action-for-rich-kids-its-more-than-just-legacy-admissions

In the US, the price of college #tuition started rising faster than household incomes in 1982, the year I started teaching college. I had a front-row seat to this slow-motion train wreck. The chart in this article shows how bad the price/income disparity has become.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2023/07/23/1982-the-last-time-college-costs-kept-pace-with-median-income/

#Academia #Affordability #Colleges #HigherEd #Universities #Inflation
@academicchatter

Tuition costs have risen 710% since 1983 - As a result, the outstanding student loan debt in the United States is 1.78 trillion dollars. For reference, the GDPs of developed countries like South Korea, Australia, and oil-rich Saudi Arabia are less than $1.7T respectively. The explosion in tuition costs and associated debt accumulation is undeniably a looming economic crisis. It’s a crisis that requires a basket of policy solutions to transform higher education from the bottom up….#StudentDebt #StudentDebtCrisis #Debt #Economics #Tuition #HigherEd #HigherEducation #Colleges #Universities #Education https://statecraft.beehiiv.com/p/student-loan-debt-forgiveness

#MN has been doing a lot of things right lately.

How will Minnesota's free #college #tuition program work? Here's what families should know.

After years of failed attempts, state lawmakers approved a bill to create a free tuition program for some students.
https://www.startribune.com/how-will-minnesotas-free-college-tuition-program-work-heres-what-families-should-know/600283599/

WAY TO GO, MINNESOTA! #education #tuition North Dakota university leaders fear 'catastrophic implications' of new Minnesota free tuition plan | AP News https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-free-tuition-north-dakota-colleges-universities-3422a4b2b4f6ffcd7ec0da77cbe27636

"big fan of #marriages of #convenience. #marry your best #friend for #tax #benefits. marry your #roommate for #college #tuition breaks. "marry" your #love interest for plot-contrived #reasons at a #fake #wedding, then accidentally fall in love & get married for real in the #epilogue. so many #possibilities!"

https://www.tumblr.com/anarchistmemecollective/720840564237631488?source=share

@KPED

Someone I know well did professional typography. Once a visible art form, now mostly niche, as too many publishers decided it wasn't moving books and settled for either the "good enough" of automatic layout, in part because that made books retargetable to various media. But it's not art. Same deal as commercial clothing and furniture. One by one more industries will go this way.

Our problem as a society is that we are contriving ways to save labor, but not conveying the benefit of the savings to the laborers. In plain terms, it's not about the smarts, it's about the utility, and it's not about the wealth but the distribution of wealth.

If artisans still got paid they could do their work as a hobby, or not. But we have no social plan for the unemployment. Claims other jobs will come but no path for those laid off to get those jobs. Or just universal basic income.

We have as a society, as they say, snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, creating a society that requires far less labor to survive but demands ever more just because it suits the ever more tyrannical lusts of those hoarding the spoils.

All egged on by technologists who think they're enriching society when really they're widening the gap between rich and poor. This cannot end well. We must stop debating singularities and start seriously debating humane social safety nets and wealth sharing.

In such a world, too, education becomes a cruel economic gamble because one may find one has trained for a dying career and is stuck with the tab. Another reason education must all be free, so people aren't burdened by risk and cost of ever more frequent need for reeducation. (This, too, underscores the importance of UBI, to eliminate need for some reeducation, and to cover life expenses as it is still otherwise forced.)

#WritingCommunity #Capitalism #OpenAI #AI #ethics #society #UBI #SafetyNets #education #tuition #TuitionLoans #debt

#ClarenceThomas Had a Child in Private School. #HarlanCrow Paid the #Tuition.

Crow paid for private school for a relative Thomas said he was raising “as a son.” “This is way outside the norm,” said a former White House ethics lawyer.

#SupremeCourt #Ethics

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotus

Harlan Crow Picked Up the Tab for Uncle Clarence’s Grandnephew’s Private School
Buried in a report that ProPublica recently released, documents show that billionaire, Harlan Crow, picked up the tab for Extreme Court Justice Uncle Clarence's grandnewphew's private school tuition. Clarence had t
https://newsviews.online/2023/05/04/harlan-crow-picked-up-the-tab-for-uncle-clarences-grandnephews-private-school/
#SCOTUS #"son" #ClarenceThomas #ExtremeCourt #financials #HarlanCrow #tuition

Starved of state funds
Auxiliary costs rising
Dorms cost more than tuition

#college #tuition #dorms #statefunding #haiku #poetry

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-cost-of-college-room-and-board-is-rising-faster-than-tuition-2023-4

To celebrate 100 years of service in Alameda, the Kiwanis Foundation is awarding $100,000 to graduating seniors at Alameda high schools. Seven distinct scholarships are available, and students may use a single application to apply for all of the scholarships at once.

https://alamedapost.com/news/alameda-kiwanis-foundation-to-award-100000-in-scholarships/

#alameda #college #tuition #HighSchool #KiwanisClub #scholarships #AlamedaKiwanisFoundation

#IvyLeague Prices Are Pushing $90,000 a Year. The cost of #tuition, #room and #board keeps climbing at #elite US #colleges, with some #economists warning about sticker shock. By comparison, the #median #household #income in the U.S. was about $71,000 annually in 2021. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ivy-league-tuition-90000-per-year-prices-just-keep-going-up/ #education #economy #college

Also very clear #Ontario is starving universities. No money to offset #tuition fee cuts or for population growth in today's #budget.

Global News BC: Foster kids of all ages get free tuition in B.C. https://globalnews.ca/news/9551044/foster-kids-of-all-ages-get-free-tuition-in-b-c/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #BritishColumbia #Agingoutofcare #governmentcare #Post-secondary #FosterCare #KidsinCare #Education #Politics #Agingout #Tuition #Social