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Will Andrew Ross quit his job as student debt pusher at NYU?

Stacy Patton at the Chronicle of Higher Edumacation writes about a recent Left Forum held for leftie academics. They came together and tried to come to grips with the fact that their leftie redoubt in academia was built upon putting their students into debt slavery. One is tempted to joke that the students may forget the difference between Baudriallard and Foucoult, but they’ll never forget the debt slavery.

Andrew Ross, the brilliant NYU leftie who can’t keep his mouth shut, said what I’ve been saying all along:

“Student debt is the greatest immoral injustice of our time,” he said. “Student debt is a hot topic everywhere now: in the public mind, over dinner tables, among families of every income bracket, among students, graduates, and on Capitol Hill.”

But student debt is not a common topic of discussion among faculty, he said. “Faculty, in general, feel besieged. Why invite one more reason to undermine our profession? But the fact remains that our salaries rely on students going into debt bondage. I find it an immoral situation.”

Will Ross leave? Hah. He famously deflected the cries of hypocrisy in 1991 when  told the NY Times magazine that he taught at Princeton to have “access to the minds of the children of the ruling classes.”

But what if the “access” isn’t as wonderful as he might hope? What if he’s fleecing the children of the world and condemning them to a life of debt slavery in the process? At least Andrew Ross is addressing the issue and speaking about it publicly. Most professors are too afraid to say much for fear of destroying their sinecure.

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  1. That’s gonna leave a mark.

    1. Walter Sobchak on March 20th, 2012 at 7:07 pm

  2. That’s Baudrillard and Foucault.

    Someone should ask him why he bothering with ruling class minds.

    Marx and Gramski ignore them — its the proles’ that have to break free of false consciousness and foster their own intellectuals. Only then is change possible.

    2. higby on March 20th, 2012 at 10:27 pm

  3. Don’t Miss This Article:

    The conventional solution for America’s education problems, advocated by politicians on the right as much as those on the left, is to invest more resources in higher education. But that is exactly what we’ve been doing. At the end of the Clinton presidency, a time many look to with great nostalgia, the federal government provided the higher-education sector with $64 billion in grants, loans, and tax credits in inflation-adjusted 2010 dollars. As Kevin Carey, head of the think tank Education Sector, has observed, that number soared over the intervening decade to $169 billion. And over this same period, the total amount of outstanding student-loan debt doubled to $1 trillion.

    So what exactly is happening to all of this money? Why isn’t a sharp increase in the amount we’re spending on higher education translating into higher college-completion rates? The discomfiting answer is that the higher-education industry is enriching itself at the expense of taxpayers and students. Students and recent graduates burdened by debt shouldn’t be calling for more public subsidies, the banner taken up by many in the Occupy movement. Rather, they should take aim at the higher-education cartel that has been extracting ever more resources without offering an improved product.

    Higher education has become a very profitable industry. Since most colleges are legally organized as non-profits, they do not earn profits in the traditional sense. But a kind of profit occurs whenever a non-profit derives more revenue from providing a service than it costs to provide. Universities do not pay out these profits in the form of dividends to shareholders; they spend them.

    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/293763/college-cartel-vance-h-fried

    3. Walter Sobchak on March 21st, 2012 at 4:21 am

  4. The lefties just want the government to pay for EVERYTHING. You know, “free” education – like in Europe! But without all that nasty screening for aptitude and tracking to vocational training that such a system requires.

    4. carol on March 21st, 2012 at 3:30 pm