Events

What remains of the utopian promise of the free production and dissemination of knowledge once held by the American university? As the politics of austerity, spiraling tuition fees, privatization, and political repression have ravished our cherished institutions of learning over the last 50 years, the university now resembles more an Althusserian fever-dream than a space […]

On the 50th anniversary of the dismantling of free tuition at the City University of New York, our largest public urban university in the United States continues to be an epicenter for struggles over anticapitalist economic justice, Palestine/anticolonial solidarity and resisting a new Zionist McCarthyism, and labor union and community defense against ICE/policing. We are […]

SPEAKER: Mark Huelsman

Join us as we discuss 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 include a discussion of a variety of free college models, research and evidence, and […]

SPEAKER: Aissa Canchola Bañez

This final session of the College for All Jubilee School series will look forward and discuss how we can win tuition free public college, dignified labor conditions, academic freedom, and debt cancellation. Speakers will include Aissa Canchola Bañez and others to be announced (bios below). Aissa Canchola Bañez is Policy Director at Protect Borrowers, formerly […]