The Academy — Pie in the Sky

I absolutely believe in ‘the relevance and urgency of humanistic inquiry’ and wish it was available to all in…

Tackling student debt in real life (and why passion matters in doing big things)

My final year of…

Shoot for the moon. If you miss, you’ll land among all the other jobless graduates. Here is: A different way to get to the moon.

For starters, it’s important to dream big. The world isn’t changed by safe people with small ideas. But if we’re…

Q: Is your community more or less closely knit? Why or why not?

I’d like to answer this question by describing a theory I learned of in the last year regarding the U.S. government’s move to end the military draft in 1973. The theory posits that the abolition of the draft had secondary reasons. Primarily we can say that the…

Drilling Down on Student Debt

Last week, I met with hundreds of Missourians to discuss the crisis of ballooning college costs and student debt in our country.

I heard from first-generation college students navigating a complicated system on their own, kids from single-parent…

How a Teacher in Tennessee Does Money

Mal is a 30-year old teacher near Chattanooga, Tennessee.

A Pre-Thanksgiving Student Loan Tweetstorm

Logan messaged me to say that I should post about our pal Lauren Rodrigue’s recent tweetstorm about her student debt. Lauren’s Twitter account is set to private, but she graciously allowed us to collect the tweets here:

Senator Warren Presses For Debt Cancellation NOW for Defrauded Students

“I don’t understand why this…