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URL:https://debtcollective.org/event/college-for-all-jubilee-school-moving
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SUMMARY:College for All Jubilee School: Moving Towards Solutions
DESCRIPTION:[embed]https://youtu.be/VO6Io9QBVb0[/embed]\n\nThis session wil
 l kick off the second half of our College for All series as we move into a
  discussion of solutions to the problems we discussed in the first half. J
 oin us as Marshall Steinbaum discusses his paper "Rebuilding American High
 er Education: From an Engine of Inequality to a Pillar of the Public Inter
 est." This paper\, published by Higher Ed Labor United (HELU) and the Jain
  Family Institute\, proposes a wholesale makeover of the US higher educati
 on system to operate in a pro-social manner\, which in effect requires a D
 NA transplant relative to the expensive\, highly segregated\, and hierarch
 ical system that underlies so many of the system's problems.\n\n 	To count
 eract institutional segregation and the tuition-driven inequality it depen
 ds on\, public institutions should receive direct federal funding on the c
 ondition they offer a free\, high-quality undergraduate or technical degre
 e to every academically-qualified student in their geographic catchment ar
 ea\, while being prohibited from out-of-state recruiting\, price discrimin
 ation among admitted students\, and front-loaded financial aid.\n 	To repl
 ace the current model of privatized financing through underwater student l
 ending—roughly $100 billion originated annually\, of which CBO projects 
 about seventy percent will never be repaid—we redirect those federal dol
 lars\, along with research overhead currently tied to individual grants\, 
 into direct institutional support that pays for the free-college entitleme
 nt without requiring new revenue.\n 	To reverse the erosion of academic la
 bor\, we propose a single-stream career structure (graduate student\, post
 doc\, junior faculty\, senior faculty) with collectively-bargained pay sca
 les\, equal labor-organizing rights for workers at public and private inst
 itutions through amendments to the NLRA and interstate compacts\, and stat
 utory protections for academic freedom.\n 	To end plutocratic governance\,
  private donors are barred from boards\, which must instead include facult
 y\, staff\, student\, and public representation\, with the Department of E
 ducation serving as a sectoral regulator in place of the captured accredit
 ation system.\n 	And to restore knowledge creation as a public good\, fede
 ral research funding is redirected away from the Bayh-Dole commercializati
 on pipeline and toward open\, mission-driven national priorities like clim
 ate resilience and public health.\n\nFinally\, because incumbent instituti
 ons and their plutocratic boards have historically been the most effective
  opponents of free-college reform\, we propose a federally-chartered unive
 rsity system operating across many campuses nationwide as a "public option
 " — built from financially-distressed institutions that opt in\, from el
 ite institutions that forfeit their independence by capitulating to politi
 cal extortion\, and from new campuses in underserved areas. Its purpose is
  to discipline the rest of the sector toward equity and quality\, ensuring
  that reform proceeds with or without the cooperation of the existing acto
 rs who created the monster in the first place.\n\n 	Marshall Steinbaum is 
 an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah and a Senior
  Fellow in Higher Education Finance at Jain Family Institute. He is an emp
 irical labor economist by training\, and his research investigates the exi
 stence and implications of employer power in labor markets\, with applicat
 ions to antitrust\, higher education\, and student debt. In addition to hi
 s academic research\, he has written for a number of popular outlets relat
 ing to his expertise in inequality\, antitrust\, labor markets\, the histo
 ry of economic ideas and intellectual history more generally\, student deb
 t and higher education policy\, as well as book reviews related to those s
 ubjects.\n\nThis session is a part of the larger Jubilee School: College f
 or All series.
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