Jubilee School Courses

SPEAKER: Charlie Eaton

Join us as we discuss how billionaires from finance and big tech adopted more oligarchical roles in US politics and higher education with Charlie Eaton, Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Merced and author of the book Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education. Charlie Eaton is an […]

SPEAKER: Marshall Steinbaum

This session will 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. Join us as Marshall Steinbaum discusses his paper “Rebuilding American Higher Education: From an Engine of Inequality to a Pillar of the Public Interest.” […]

SPEAKER: Hannah Appel

College should not only be free, it should be free-ing. In other words, higher education should not incarcerate anyone with either a debt sentence or a prison sentence. And yet, university investments (like endowments and pension funds) profit from state violence–weapons manufacturers, private prisons, surveillance technology, and more. Join us to learn about the University […]

SPEAKER: Max Page

This workshop, led by Massachusetts Teachers Association President Max Page, will engage participants in a discussion about how together we can achieve debt-free public college by taxing the very wealthy.  We’ll share some of the history of college costs, hear from participants about their efforts, look at some recent wins, and explore resources for making […]

SPEAKER: Timothy Kaufman-Osborn

Join us as we discuss university governing boards with Timothy Kaufman-Osborn, Professor Emeritus at Whitman College and author of the book The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule within America’s Universities and Constance Penley, Professor Emerita at UC Santa Barbara and former President of the Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA). Whether public or private, U.S. universities […]

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 […]