Aram Zucker-Scharff

The Adjunct Revolt: How Poor Professors Are Fighting Back:

“College is no longer creating a critically-thinking citizenry who can participate actively in a democracy.”

Why? Adjuncts professors now constitute 76.4 percent of all U.S. faculty across Higher Education institutions. The majority of those adjuncts live below the poverty line.

How can we expect the homeless or hungry with no free time and no job security to properly educated the youth of tomorrow?

“We have lost an entire generation of scholarship because of this.”

“We moved away from a faculty-centric university to one focused on serving students … To attract students, universities need amenities to keep up in an arms race with other institutions,”

More High School Grads Decide College Isn’t Worth It:

As colleges put themselves deeper in debt on the assumption of increasing enrollment (and increase tuition accordingly), enrollment begins to drop. Put a pin in it, here’s where the pressure increases on the higher ed bubble and the pop begins. 

Universities are soon to get an education on just how much the market can bear. 

The saddest way to default on your student loan: If a parent or grandparent cosigns a private student loan and then dies, banks can demand that you pay up immediately.