Last week the US House of Representatives, with bipartisan support, passed a bill, H.R. 2117, with the misleading title of The Protecting Academic Freedom in Higher Education Act. The title is misleading because the bill has absolutely nothing to do with “protecting academic freedom” and everything to do with making our country more vulnerable to a rapacious campaign to turn America’s entire system of education into an enterprise that can be exploited by corporate rentiers… This bill isn’t about affordability as much as it is about opening the gates to more for-profit higher education providers to have easier entry into the market and more flexibility to offer low-quality degrees and certificates.

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by Jeff Bryant, California Progress Report.

Posted: March 5th, 2012, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.