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• 1A: Cradle To Grade: Living A Lifetime Of Student Loan Debt
  WAMU 1A, November 26, 2018. Americans owe more than $1.5 trillion in student loans. And more than ten million Americans are in deferment, forbearance or default. But it’s not just 22-year-olds fresh out of undergrad who find themselves owing. People over 60 are rapidly accumulating student loan debt, whether it’s for continuing education or — more often — taking out loans for a child or grandchild. Host: Joshua Johnson. Guests: Lori Trawinski Director of banking and finance, AARP Public Policy Institute; certified financial planner; @loritrawinski, Robert Kelchen Assistant professor, higher education, Seton Hall University; author, "Higher Education Accountability"; @rkelchen
• 1A: Why New Hampshire Students Have So Much Loan Debt
  WAMU, 1A, November 26, 2018. The Institute for College Access and Success reports that college graduates in the Granite State have the fourth highest average student loan debt: $34,000. The cost of attending college in New Hampshire is so high that many students leave the state to get their degree. And many aren’t coming back. Last month, we spoke with educators and students at a live-audience event at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, in partnership with New Hampshire Public Radio. Host: Joshua Johnson, with Guests: Todd Leach Chancellor, University System of New Hampshire; chair, New Hampshire College and University Council; Chair, New England Board of Higher Education; Melinda Treadwell Interim president, Keene State College; @kscprestreadwel; Kenneth Ferreira Associate vice president, Student Financial Services, Franklin Pierce University; president, New Hampshire Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators; José Calvo Senior and political science major, University of New Hampshire; member, education committee, New Hampshire Governor Millennial Council; @josecalvonh
• Affinity groups for diversity
  Laura Bonetta, 9 May 2008, Advertising Feature from Science Custom Publishing
  Affinity groups are by no means unique to universities and biotechnology companies—but in these settings many of them are playing an important role in supporting diversity. "Who wants to sit in a room of homogeneous looking people?" says UNC's Banks. "I walk through a door expecting to see diversity. If I don't see that, I ask why. And then I do something about it."
  
• A Quiet Revolution in Helping Lift the Burden of Student Debt
  A Quiet Revolution in Helping Lift the Burden of Student Debt
  Kevin Carey, NY Times, Jan 24, 2015
  
• Critical race theory ban leads Oklahoma college to cancel class that taught ‘white privilege’
  Hannah Knowles, The Washington Post, May 29, 2021
  
• Excess of intellectual emptiness in colleges and the White House
  George Will, January 29, 2017 Much attention has been given to the non-college-educated voters who rallied to Trump. Insufficient attention is given to the role of the college miseducated. They, too, are complicit in our current condition because they emerged from their expensive "college experiences" neither disposed nor able to conduct civil, informed arguments. They are thus disarmed when confronted by political people who consider evidence, data and reasoning to be mere conveniences and optional.
• Facing South - 2015 - Higher ed lobby quietly joins for-profit schools to roll back tighter rules
  By Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, on May 13, 2015 1:15 PM
• How a Right-Wing Political Machine Is Dismantling Higher Education in North Carolina
  How a Right-Wing Political Machine Is Dismantling Higher Education in North Carolina June 12, 2015, by Zoë Carpenter. Moyers & company
• Lives on Hold - The Student Debt Crisis
  Millions of Americans who went to college seeking a better future now face crushing debt from student loans—while the industry makes a handsome profit. How a broken system landed so many in this mess. From Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting
• PBS Ken Burns: College Behind Bars
  College Behind Bars, a four-part documentary film series directed by award-winning filmmaker Lynn Novick, produced by Sarah Botstein, and executive produced by Ken Burns, tells the story of a small group of incarcerated men and women struggling to earn college degrees and turn their lives around in one of the most rigorous and effective prison education programs in the United States – the Bard Prison Initiative.
  Shot over four years in maximum and medium security prisons in New York State, the four-hour film takes viewers on a stark and intimate journey into one of the most pressing issues of our time – our failure to provide meaningful rehabilitation for the over two million Americans living behind bars. Through the personal stories of the students and their families, the film reveals the transformative power of higher education and puts a human face on America’s criminal justice crisis. It raises questions we urgently need to address: What is prison for? Who has access to educational opportunity? Who among us is capable of academic excellence? How can we have justice without redemption?
  The series airs on PBS on November 25th and 26th.
• Teaching scientific thinking
  Editorial, online resource, and video tutorial
• The Living Legacy - Black Colleges in the 21st Century (52 min)
  The Living Legacy - Black Colleges in the 21st Century August 2015 "Before the civil rights movement, African Americans were largely barred from white-dominated institutions of higher education. And so black Americans, and their white supporters, founded their own schools, which came to be known as Historically Black Colleges and Universities. HBCU graduates helped launch the civil rights movement, built the black middle class, and staffed the pulpits of black churches and the halls of almost every black primary school before the 1960s. But after desegregation, some people began to ask whether HBCUs had outlived their purpose. Yet for the students who attend them, HBCUs still play a crucial — and unique — role. In this documentary, we hear first-person testimony from students about why they chose an HBCU; and we travel to an HBCU that’s in the process of reinventing itself wholesale."
• The Pitfalls of "Objectivity"
  John Warner, author of Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities and The Writer's Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing. June 8, 2017
• UNC World View - global resources for K-12 and community college educators
  World View equips K-12 and community college educators with global knowledge, best practices and resources to prepare students to engage in our interconnected and diverse world.
• Who got rich off the student debt crisis
  By James B. Steele and Lance Williams / June 28, 2016 Reveal, Center for Investigative Reporting A generation ago, Congress privatized a student loan program intended to give more Americans access to higher education. In its place, lawmakers created another profit center for Wall Street and a system of college finance that has fed the nation’s cycle of inequality. Step by step, Congress has enacted one law after another to make student debt the worst kind of debt for Americans – and the best kind for banks and debt collectors.