Tiffany Loftin speaking about her experience as a first gen college student accepted to UC Santa Cruz #facingrace- Question on screen: how has the US produced more college degrees and more inequality? @tressiemcphd #facingrace #highered
- We don't have a problem creating college students. Added 5 million college students in the last decade. @tressiemcphd #facingrace #highered
The higher ed narrative is false. We're sending more kids to college, but the opportunities haven't increased, while debt has #FacingRace
RT @Morgane_R: Student loan debt has sky-rocketed. We hit a debt of 1Trillion dollars @tressiemcphd #highered #refusesilence #facingrace
The person who is in college now is black, a woman, employed, and has children. - @tressiemcphd #facingrace #refusesilence
70% of students in for-profit schools are women. For-profits are inherently racialized and gendered. #FacingRace #edrace- Tressie: if you are born poor in the US, you'll probably die poor. But this isn't inevitable, doesn't go without saying. #FacingRace #edrace
- There have been periods in U.S. history where there was more socioeconomic mobility. #FacingRace #edrace
- We've shifted burden of education from public, social, corporate responsibility to the individual. #FacingRace #edrace
- (These are all from @tressiemcphd's comments. Missed the presentation by the other panelist.) #FacingRace #edrace
- There was a time when companies believed in producing their own human capital. Now they expect colleges to do it. #FacingRace #edrace
@graceishuman Even if you hadn't said this was Tressie I would've known, LOL. Lookit me, I pay attention! #WinningAtTwitter- Government disagrees w/ private sector that it's public (rather than corporate) responsibility to produce human capital. #FacingRace #edrace
Next session @ #FacingRace digs into what the future of college looks like for students of color. #racialequity- "@tressiemcphd: If that's not commodifying a person's individual aspiration, I don't know what is." #FacingRace #edrace
Host of the college panel @ #facingrace is as horrified at for-profit systems as I. Can we start setting up info tables @ enrollment events?- Students are becoming increasingly disabled by the debt they take on to attend #college. #FacingRace #racialequity #highered
- Other panelist is @tiffanydloftin, talking about the need for students to organize against education cutbacks #FacingRace #edrace
- Tressie: Black orgs like NAACP are not addressing issues with for-profits + students of color at all. Completely silent. #FacingRace #edrace
- One reason for silence is we see for-profits not as an education/justice issue but as a business issue. #FacingRace #edrace
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tressie mc
Sociologist. PhD student. I stan for organizational lit. Professional hell-raiser. I tried to shut up once & it ended badly for all. #EmoryUniversity
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