Episode 30! Josh Hunt on “The University of Nike”
01/23/19 • -1 min
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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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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Episode 29: Emmi Harward of ACCIS
Emmi Harward is the Executive Director of the Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools (ACCIS), and it’s her job to keep her finger on the pulse of the college counseling profession so she can help her members do their best work helping kids apply to college.
As they put it “ACCIS is a national membership organization providing support, shared knowledge, and professional development programming for college counselors based in independent (non-public) schools across the country and internationally. ACCIS counts nearly 600 schools as members, represented by over 1700 counselors and office assistants working to support the students in their care.” Emmi spends her time in airports, schools, and her home base of San Diego, California, and joined me in new york, and she and I talked in a conference room in the Collegewise New York City world headquarters at WeWork on 49th street in Manhattan.
Further reading: NACAC State of College Admissions 2018
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Episode 31 – Doug Webber 2: The Return of Doug Webber!
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Temple University Economics Professor Doug Webber does some fascinating research on the impact of our academic choices in college. In a world plagued by a lust for prestige, how much does it really matter in terms of your ability to earn a good living?
I’m thrilled to have Doug back as my first repeat guest! Make sure and take a listen to Episode 18 where we discuss the value of New York State’s “Excelsior Scholarship” which is meant to provide a free college education to a certain segment of New York’s households. Here we spend more time on the research that really occupies his time, which is the impact of college on the labor force. Are there good jobs for humanities majors? Will you, in fact, be doomed if you do not attend a Top 25 US News-ranked school? Are the robots coming for our jobs, and how soon? Professor Webber was kind enough to host me in his fancy corner office on campus at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.
Further listening/reading:
“My Little Hundred Million” Malcolm Gladwell, Revisionist History
“It Depends What you Study, Not Where” The Economist, 2015
“Examining the Interstate Mobility of Recent College Graduates” Kelchen and Webber, 2018
“Is College Worth it? Going Beyond Averages” Webber, Third Way, 2018
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