Depending on whom you ask, Diane Auer Jones has returned to the Education Department with either a mission or a vengeance…
Now, as the chief architect of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s higher education agenda, Ms. Jones is leading the charge to overhaul the accreditation system, and, to critics, revive the fortunes of for-profit organizations that operate low-quality education programs that have a track record of shortchanging students and taxpayers.
Jones is in charge of writing new rules for accrediting agencies that oversee higher education.
Zuck/Gates’ investment in the for-profit seller of schools-in-a-box…the founder of 4 major Gates-funded ed organizations said the goal of charters was “…brands on a large scale.”
Gates’ Frontier Set paves the way in universities.
The student debt crisis has provided the perfect storm for demolishing public higher education and especially studies in the arts, humanities, and social services professions, including education.
Gate’s has organized a campaign to out-do the US News and World Report ratings of postsecondary programs. The project is designed to determine the economic worth of a post-secondary program of study (major) or postsecondary credential. The economic value will be measured immediately after program completion, and at intervals of time thereafter. Senate Bill 800 does the job, Elizabeth Warren is a co-sponsor. The bill calls for an immediate REPEAL of the section of the Higher Education Act that protects students from being tracked by the creation and use of personally Identifiable information (PII).The bill gives a lot of power to a recent six-year Trump appointee ( from CREDO and the Walton funded Arkansas School of Educational Reform) as Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics. The bill does nothing to address student debt, other than discouraging students from studying anything that might not have an immediate and long term monetary reward.
Warren supports canceling student debt and making public college tuition free. Cosponsoring a bill (with, among others, Pat Roberts, Lindsey Graham, more Republicans and some centrist Democrats) to collect student data about tuition costs is, what, intended as a steppingstone toward tuition free higher education or a quiet signal that tuition free college is an empty campaign promise? In other words, why start collecting data about tuition if one intends to provide higher education without tuition? Bill Gates, why?
Elizabeth Warren has a plan for everything. It is a time for her to present a coherent K-12 plan a well as one for higher education. I hope she is not buying into Gates’ scheme to measure all higher education by how much you can make after college. That would be the end of most education departments, not to mention the obvious ones in the fine arts. I’m sure others can contribute to the list of “obsolete” majors. I so want her to be a champion for education.
Subtitle: This sordid tale of crony capitalism under the guise of public philanthropy is another chapter in the corporatization of higher ed.
On April 17, I published an article in City Journal detailing the academic destruction of the University of Tulsa. Less than a week earlier, TU’s administrators had rolled out a radical restructuring of the university called “True Commitment.” The plan gutted the liberal arts, raised default teaching loads across the university from five courses per year to eight, eliminated all academic departments, created new divisions to house surviving programs (including one called “Humanities and Social Justice”), and established a “Professional Super College” consisting of the formerly independent colleges of law, health sciences, and business.
My City Journal article concluded that we had witnessed a hostile takeover that appears to have made TU “a subsidiary of Tulsa’s biggest charitable foundation and an agent of the city’s corporate interests.” It’s now clear that I didn’t know the half of it. What follows is a sordid little tale of crony capitalism under the guise of public philanthropy. It is part of a much bigger story that has yet to be told, the Pottersville-like takeover of the city of Tulsa by an extremely wealthy and influential businessman.
I think similar takeover of public universities has been happening all over the country. For example, in TN the poublic 4 year colleges had all their board members appointed by the governor 2 years ago, and since then quite dramatic changes have been taking place.
Wow! Reminds me of a job offer my father once got from a company in a mid-central state (I am too old to remember or was to young to care.) They essentially had their own town where everybody was one big, happy family. My parents wisely decided they were not interested in living in a company owned town.
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Not only did DeVos roll back Obama’s rules on for profit colleges, she remains invested in for-profit colleges. This administration is all about using the office they hold to make sweetheart deals for themselves DeVos is a fox that is in charge of the hen house.https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-postsecondary/news/2017/01/27/297572/inside-the-financial-holdings-of-billionaire-betsy-devos/
Diane . . . proving that there is a such thing as “ideological nepotism.” CBK
Yep.
Zuck/Gates’ investment in the for-profit seller of schools-in-a-box…the founder of 4 major Gates-funded ed organizations said the goal of charters was “…brands on a large scale.”
Gates’ Frontier Set paves the way in universities.
The student debt crisis has provided the perfect storm for demolishing public higher education and especially studies in the arts, humanities, and social services professions, including education.
Gate’s has organized a campaign to out-do the US News and World Report ratings of postsecondary programs. The project is designed to determine the economic worth of a post-secondary program of study (major) or postsecondary credential. The economic value will be measured immediately after program completion, and at intervals of time thereafter. Senate Bill 800 does the job, Elizabeth Warren is a co-sponsor. The bill calls for an immediate REPEAL of the section of the Higher Education Act that protects students from being tracked by the creation and use of personally Identifiable information (PII).The bill gives a lot of power to a recent six-year Trump appointee ( from CREDO and the Walton funded Arkansas School of Educational Reform) as Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics. The bill does nothing to address student debt, other than discouraging students from studying anything that might not have an immediate and long term monetary reward.
Warren supports canceling student debt and making public college tuition free. Cosponsoring a bill (with, among others, Pat Roberts, Lindsey Graham, more Republicans and some centrist Democrats) to collect student data about tuition costs is, what, intended as a steppingstone toward tuition free higher education or a quiet signal that tuition free college is an empty campaign promise? In other words, why start collecting data about tuition if one intends to provide higher education without tuition? Bill Gates, why?
Did Warrent make any comments on why he supports this bill?
Elizabeth Warren has a plan for everything. It is a time for her to present a coherent K-12 plan a well as one for higher education. I hope she is not buying into Gates’ scheme to measure all higher education by how much you can make after college. That would be the end of most education departments, not to mention the obvious ones in the fine arts. I’m sure others can contribute to the list of “obsolete” majors. I so want her to be a champion for education.
Great observation. She does have “a plan for everything.” Which makes her silence and willingness to be played on education even more disturbing.
You’d think she’d have something to say about the Amway-, Walmarticization of elementary, secondary and higher education.
I want Elizabeth Warren to succeed. But I won’t commit to her until she makes her K-12 education ideas public.
Here is a relevant article titled Corporate Wolves in Academic Sheepskins, or, a Billionaire’s Raid on the University of Tulsa.
https://www.thenation.com/article/higher-education-corporate-takeover-kaiser-university-of-tulsa/
Subtitle: This sordid tale of crony capitalism under the guise of public philanthropy is another chapter in the corporatization of higher ed.
On April 17, I published an article in City Journal detailing the academic destruction of the University of Tulsa. Less than a week earlier, TU’s administrators had rolled out a radical restructuring of the university called “True Commitment.” The plan gutted the liberal arts, raised default teaching loads across the university from five courses per year to eight, eliminated all academic departments, created new divisions to house surviving programs (including one called “Humanities and Social Justice”), and established a “Professional Super College” consisting of the formerly independent colleges of law, health sciences, and business.
My City Journal article concluded that we had witnessed a hostile takeover that appears to have made TU “a subsidiary of Tulsa’s biggest charitable foundation and an agent of the city’s corporate interests.” It’s now clear that I didn’t know the half of it. What follows is a sordid little tale of crony capitalism under the guise of public philanthropy. It is part of a much bigger story that has yet to be told, the Pottersville-like takeover of the city of Tulsa by an extremely wealthy and influential businessman.
I think similar takeover of public universities has been happening all over the country. For example, in TN the poublic 4 year colleges had all their board members appointed by the governor 2 years ago, and since then quite dramatic changes have been taking place.
Wow! Reminds me of a job offer my father once got from a company in a mid-central state (I am too old to remember or was to young to care.) They essentially had their own town where everybody was one big, happy family. My parents wisely decided they were not interested in living in a company owned town.