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URL:https://debtcollective.org/event/college-for-all-jubilee-school-a-hist
 ory-of-the-college-for-all-fight/
SUMMARY:College for All Jubilee School: A History of the College for All Fi
 ght
DESCRIPTION:[embed]https://youtu.be/d0B3YbVFLfI[/embed]\n\nJoin us as we di
 scuss a (recent) history of the free college fight and of "College Promise
 " programs in the U.S. with Michelle Miller-Adams\, author of the book The
  Path to Free College\, and Mark Huelsman (bios below). This event will in
 clude a discussion of a variety of free college models\, research and evid
 ence\, and ongoing policy efforts.\n\n 	Mark Huelsman\, who is the Directo
 r of Policy &amp\; Advocacy at The Hope Center for Student Basic Needs\, 
 where he focuses on federal policy efforts to modernize higher education a
 nd safety net policies to support students’ basic needs and improve coll
 ege affordability. He also currently serves as a Senior Fellow with Prote
 ct Borrowers\, a nonprofit organization fighting to build an economy where
  debt doesn’t limit opportunity. Mark’s writing and work have been fea
 tured in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, CNN\, Slate\, Vox
 \, Marketwatch\, The Nation\, The Guardian\, Inside Higher Ed\, the N
 ew Republic\, The American Prospect\, The Hill\, and U.S. News and Worl
 d Report. In 2016\, he was named to Politico Magazine’s Politico 50 guid
 e to the thinkers\, doers and visionaries transforming American politics f
 or his role in sparking a national policy conversation around debt-free co
 llege.\n 	Michelle Miller-Adams\, who is a senior researcher at the W.E. U
 pjohn Institute for Employment Research. Miller-Adams is the author of The
  Path to Free College: In Pursuit of Access\, Equity\, and Prosperity (20
 21)\, Promise Nation: Transforming Communities through Place-Based Scholar
 ships (2015)\, and The Power of a Promise: Education and Economic Renewal 
 in Kalamazoo (2009)\, along with two other books. One of the nation’s le
 ading experts on the tuition-free college movement\, she speaks with natio
 nal media and advises state policymakers and community partners on their t
 uition-free college initiatives. Miller-Adams also co-directs the Upjohn I
 nstitute’s Policies for Place Initiative that explores how communities c
 an create good jobs for their residents. She holds a BA in history from th
 e University of California Santa Barbara\, a master’s degree in internat
 ional affairs from Columbia University\, and a PhD in political science fr
 om Columbia University.\n\nThis session is a part of the larger Jubilee Sc
 hool: College for All series.
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