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Stanley Nelson has been making movies for a long time, and his latest film – airing Monday, February 19th on PBS – called “Tell Them We Are Rising” is the first of its kind fo explore the topic of Historically Black Colleges and Universities or HBCUs.

NYC native Stanley talked to me about his personal connection to these schools, their place in our history and in our national culture, and how they’re uniquely stuck “between a rock and a hard place” in Trump’s America.

RESOURCES

“Tell Them We Are Rising” trailer

“Black Colleges in the Age of Trump” NY Times Op-Doc

“Fast Facts on HBCUs” (National Center for Education Statistics)

“The Changeing Face of HBCUS” (U Penn/MaryBeth Gasman)

“Blacks and Hispanics are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges Than 35 Years Ago” (NY Times)

Brown-Tougaloo College Partnership

“Harvard’s Next President: Another ‘White Male Economist Named Larry'” (Chronicle of Higher Ed)

“Eluding the Endowment Tax” (Inside Higher Ed)

“It’s Time to Bust the Myth: Most Trump Voters Were Not Working Class” (WaPo)

“My Little Hundred Million” (Revisionist History Podcast)

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Chronicle of Higher Education reporter Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez visited the island of Puerto Rico to see how people were recovering at its most important institution of higher education, the University of Puerto Rico.

Her story – available in both English and Spanish – tells a tale of, as she puts it, “higher education at its most improvised.” The well-being of Puerto Rico is in many ways linked to its cherished university system, and over 120 days after Hurricane María struck the island, neither has recovered substantially. Fernanda humanizes an experience that has been overshadowed in part by high-minded economic debates and low-minded tweets from President Paper Towel. Meanwhile, the people of Puerto Rico attempt to carry on, to get an education, to build a future for themselves against obstacles that feel painfully familiar.

0:00-11:11 – Brief History of Puerto Rico
11:11-44:16 – Interview with Fernanda
44:16-50:21 – Wrap up

READ MORE:

Please read this piece “How to Help the University of Puerto Rico – And How Not To” by Godreau, Bonilla, and Walicek

How Universities Are Trying To Do Right by Puerto Rico (CUNY/Chronicle)

This is the plane my in-laws took to get to the mainland, thanks to JJ Barea and Mark Cuban, and the Dallas Mavericks organization (seriously).

How Dependence on Corporate Tax Breaks Eroded the Puerto Rican Economy (Reuters)

Tax Bill Could be a Big Hit to Puerto Rico’s Economy (NPR)

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/21/572699193/tax-bill-could-be-a-big-hit-to-puerto-ricos-economy

Puerto Rico’s Mass-Migration is Re-Shaping Florida (Bloomberg)

Residente (and my cousin Lilliana) performs “Hijos de Cañaveral” at the Latin Grammys (YouTube)

Animation of the “Political Topography” of the Caribbean, by Rutgers professor Yarimar Bonilla (Vimeo)

Puerto Rico’s University is Paralyzed by Protests and Facing Huge Cuts (NY Times, 5/17)

Forced Sterilization in Puerto Rico (Our Bodies Ourselves)

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The coronavirus has forced some wildly unprecedented anxieties into an already extremely anxious space. Mindy Rose and Mark Moody of Shanghai American School have had to roll with the punches in a very unique college counseling community.

FURTHER READING

Open Doors Asia report
https://p.widencdn.net/aumflg/Asia

Open Doors China fact sheet
https://www.iie.org/-/media/Files/Corporate/Open-Doors/Fact-Sheets-2019/Country/China.ashx

Shanghai American School College Counseling
https://www.saschina.org/academics/school-and-college-counseling/college-counseling

SAS Pudong Campus Profile
https://www.saschina.org/uploaded/2018-academics/SAS_College_Profile_2019-2020_Pudong_Campus.pdf

SAS Puxi Campus Profile
https://www.saschina.org/uploaded/2018-academics/SAS_College_Profile_2019-2020_Puxi_Campus.pdf

How Coronavirus is Affecting Admissions
https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2020/03/09/how-coronavirus-changing-admissions

IBO Online Learning, Teaching and Education Continuity Planning

Click to access online-learning-continuity-planning-en.pdf

What’s Worked for Us in Distance Learning (Moody and Rose)

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This week it became known via a federal indictment that rich people used their wealth to break the law in a variety of appalling ways, all with a mind to skip the line and receive guaranteed admission to famous/elite/highly-selective colleges. Nobody knows more about this world than Chronicle of Higher Education reporter Eric Hoover...let’s unpack #AuntBeckyGate emergency-style!

So much more to read here:

“Bribery Scandal Reveals ‘Weak Spots’ in the Admissions System. Don’t Look so Shocked.” (Hoover, Chronicle)

“Admissions Officers Didn’t Create the Scandal. But They Helped Shape the Culture That Spawned it.” (Hoover, Chronicle)

“They’re Already Rich. Why Were These Parents so Fixated on Elite Colleges?” (Becky Supiano, Chronicle)

“Born on Third, Stealing Home, Paying off the Ump: The Unhinged Greed of College Cheats” (James Murphy, Vanity Fair)

The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout

...And hey I was on Good Morning America, so that’s cool!

Part 1

Part 2

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Nike and Oregon – the state as well as its flagship university – go way back, and their relationship became a template for underfunded state universities all over the country. Josh Hunt takes a deep dive into this complicated and painful reality in his new book, “The University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education.”

I grew up in Portland, Oregon alongside the growth of Nike from a hip local shoe company to a global empire. Michael Moore’s film “The Big One” came out in my junior year of high school, and first blasted Phil Knight and Nike’s lack of action to curb its exploitative labor practices into the national spotlight. We all saw the swooshes on the jerseys of athletes at Oregon, and also at Michigan, Florida State, and my alma mater USC. But I definitely never understood the depth and breadth of the bargain Oregon and its then-president, Dave Frohnmayer, made with Knight and Nike, and the grip its implications still has on our public systems of higher education. But then I read this book, and I encourage you all to read it too.

Further Reading and Listening
– www.viajoshhunt.com
– https://twitter.com/viajoshhunt
– Communications Director Out at UO (Eugene Weekly, 2018)
– Oregon’s New “Football Performance Center” is a Decadent Monstrosity (Deadspin, 2013)
– State Higher Education Finance Report (SHEEO, 2017)
– “The Filthy Fifteen”
– Twitter thread on the Sackler/Purdue Pharma/OxyContin court case
– Aaron Sorkin Tells AOC to Keep Her Frisbee Off His Lawn
– Grateful Dead. Eugene, OR June 17, 1994 setlist
– Led Zeppelin – Ten Years Gone

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