Debt Collective Jubilee School Course Offerings – always free and open to the public. Past Courses can be found here.
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Upcoming Courses
College for All Jubilee School: The Making of the Student Debt Crisis
SPEAKER: Jason Wozniak
In this session, Debt Collective’s Julia Barnard and Jason Wozniak will unpack the roots of the current crisis, discuss current threats to our movement, and talk about the Debt Collective’s Right to Learn work to explore how we arrived at this current moment and define the work ahead. This session is a part of the […]
Part of ourCollege for All Jubilee School: Tuition Pricing & Antitrust Law
SPEAKER: Doha Mekki
Join guest speaker Doha Mekki, formerly the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the DOJ’s antitrust division, to learn how corporate consolidation in education drives up tuition and how antitrust enforcement can help protect affordability. Doha Mekki is a Senior Fellow at the University of California Berkeley Law School’s Center for Consumer Law & Economic […]
Part of ourAn Abolitionist History of the University
SPEAKER: Eli Meyerhoff
In our moment of fascist authoritarianism and war, what does an abolitionist approach to the university offer? In this session, Abolitionist University Studies authors Eli Meyerhoff, Abbie Boggs, Nick Mitchell, and Zach Schwartz will provide an overview of what abolitionist perspectives provide for thinking about the university. Together, we’ll explore questions of debt and capture […]
Part of ourCollege for All Jubilee School: Erosion of Academic Labor
Colleges and universities are core to our communities and economy. How do we grow the higher ed labor movement while building consciousness of ourselves as workers? Join speakers from HELU to explore strategies for building connections and trust between very different kinds of workers so that we can move in coordinated action in the future. […]
Part of ourCollege for All Jubilee School: Plutocratic Governance
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 […]
Part of ourCollege for All Jubilee School: Moving Towards Solutions
In the United States, higher education has been careening toward collapse as a result of state and federal disinvestment, institutional segregation, the erosion of academic labor, plutocratic governance, and the explosion of for-profit higher education that cynically leverages Americans’ lack of time and opportunity. As a result, public support for colleges and universities is eroding. […]
Part of ourCollege for All Jubilee School: Divesting the University from State Violence
In the United States, higher education has been careening toward collapse as a result of state and federal disinvestment, institutional segregation, the erosion of academic labor, plutocratic governance, and the explosion of for-profit higher education that cynically leverages Americans’ lack of time and opportunity. As a result, public support for colleges and universities is eroding. […]
Part of ourCollege for All Jubilee School: Funding Free College
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 […]
Part of ourCollege for All Jubilee School: Democratic Governance
In the United States, higher education has been careening toward collapse as a result of state and federal disinvestment, institutional segregation, the erosion of academic labor, plutocratic governance, and the explosion of for-profit higher education that cynically leverages Americans’ lack of time and opportunity. As a result, public support for colleges and universities is eroding. […]
Part of ourCollege for All Jubilee School: Public Knowledge Creation
In the United States, higher education has been careening toward collapse as a result of state and federal disinvestment, institutional segregation, the erosion of academic labor, plutocratic governance, and the explosion of for-profit higher education that cynically leverages Americans’ lack of time and opportunity. As a result, public support for colleges and universities is eroding. […]
Part of ourCollege for All Jubilee School: A History of the College for All Fight
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 […]
Part of ourCollege for All Jubilee School: How to Win
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 […]
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