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The Higher Education, Race, and the Economy Lab at UC Merced
UC Merced
Joined January 2014
For-profit companies called OPMs are turning public education into a for-profit venture— and when private equity and VC investors get involved, the risks to students only rise. See our analysis from @SmithChristianM and Laura Hamilton:
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In a new paper, we analyzed hundreds of contracts between colleges and online program managers. What our analysis revealed about the risks OPMs might pose to students and the powers schools are...
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RT @CharlieEatonPhD: 🚨Big personal and professional news! I'll be giving talks at UC Berkeley and Stanford this week about "The Financializ….
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RT @SmithChristianM: In a new report, we show how a Wealth-Based Pell Grant could address racial wealth gaps and reduce student debt burden….
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RT @verogarciasf: Excited to reshare the Wealth-Based Pell Grant report, authored by my colleagues at the @HERE_Lab in partnership with @TI….
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Check out our new report proposing a supplemental Wealth-Based Pell grant that together with the existing Pell Grant would help millions more students to attend college debt free.
Our new report with @HERE_Lab proposes a new Wealth-Based #PellGrant that could help close racial equity gaps in degree attainment & student loan borrowing rates and give more students a debt-free option.
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RT @CharlieEatonPhD: The amazing @ProfessorWherry at @Princeton is hiring a postdoc for our project on using innovations by Du Bois to teac….
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RT @SmithChristianM: The @HERE_Lab is hiring a postdoc! Project on wealth & financial aid policy w/ Laura Hamilton & @CharlieEatonPhD. Firs….
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HERE Lab cofounder Charlie Eaton speaks to why we need universities led by academics grounded in the project of scientific research and an inclusive pursuit of knowledge.
Charlie Eaton, the author of “Bankers in the Ivory Tower,” said. “There’s already so much pull towards doing what donors would want the university to do. You need presidents who are academics to keep the university anchored in that project.”
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RT @CharlieEatonPhD: Charlie Eaton, the author of “Bankers in the Ivory Tower,” said. “There’s already so much pull towards doing what do….
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RT @CharlieEatonPhD: It was a nice surprise to hear @EvanMandery on @NewsHour quote my estimate that university endowments receive $20 bill….
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RT @CharlieEatonPhD: To the economists who screamed moral hazard about student debt cancellation but not the SVB bank bailout: new student….
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RT @SmithChristianM: NEW: Black & low-inc students are disprop. in online 4yr programs, these progs. relate to worse grad & loan repayment….
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RT @CharlieEatonPhD: Hannah Appel of @StrikeDebt reviewed my book for @NYbooks. She argues that the recent University of California strike….
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Last year ended with a surge of organized labor actions on university campuses across the United States, from Rutgers and Northwestern to Yale and the
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RT @CharlieEatonPhD: Help lead our Lab's work to end student debt and more!. The Higher Education, Race, and Economy @HERE_Lab at @UCMerced….
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RT @CharlieEatonPhD: In California, we don’t forgive student debt, we cancel it. I’m proud that our @HERE_Lab research with @daliejimenez,….
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SACRAMENTO – Building on the Administration’s Roadmap with California Community Colleges and Compacts with the University of California and California State University, Governor Gavin Newsom today…
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RT @equityavengers: Our next #EquityChat guest is @CharlieEatonPhD -economic sociologist & assoc. prof. at @UCMerced. He is cofounder of @H….
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RT @DrTayloriaAdams: I really appreciate that UCI is holding info sessions about the recently expanded student loan forgiveness. I’m joinin….
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RT @CharlieEatonPhD: We will be releasing a rapid analysis of the forthcoming details on the debt cancellation executive order jointly from….
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