TMC: "Every problem you have that is new to you is a an old problem for HBCUs. Our legitimacy has always been questioned, we've always been defunded, we've always been politically compromised, and somehow we have sustained. ... I like to point this out because we tend to look for guidance at the very institutions that don't have the kinds of problems that are coming for most of us in higher education." (11:45)

TMC: "Our inclination when the culture turns against you, especially powerful interests turn against you, is to retreat, tell them what they want to hear, keep your head down until they bored of it, they'll move on eventually. HBCU's have said "no, double down on who you are"." (13:00)

TMC: "Faculty governance was not just meant as job security. Faculty governance was meant to buffer students experience of the university from administrative creep. We were supposed to stand in the gap. [...] when we use faculty governance to defend our students, students will help defend us." (15:45)

TMC: If you look to technological change you usually see where the for-profit models are. [...] That was the way bootcamps and MOOCs and short-term credentials were folded into the not-for-profit traditional university. At my university, [...] it's getting the ads on TikTok for the UNC Bootcamp in Data Science. If you look beneath the hood of those programs, they're almost always managed by a for-profit. Those were purchased whole-sale from the for-profit college system. (1:04)

TMC: I think the increased power of the technology administrative class is lower ed. [] probably the most powerful person in admin at your university, that you don't know about, is not the Provost, it's the Chief Technology Officer. They are entering into vendor agreements that will absolutely change how faculty works and how students learn. (1:06)

TMC: [Bob Shireman] wanted good data on the outcomes of Masters degrees. What we know is in the student loan debt world, we kinda tapped out on extracting profit from people with student loan debt at the undergrad level and all the growth got shifted to Masters degrees. But we didn't know anything about the quality of them, labor market outcomes. He's got new data out about what he calls the "worthless Masters degree" [...] at not-for profit traditional institutions. (1:08)

TMC: High-cost, almost 100% financed through student loan debt, disproportionately enrolling minority, low-income, first-generation students, all those students who bring relative negative worth positions to higher education. Which means they need the outcomes even more.

TMC: This is the core of the education gospel: there is no such thing as a bad education. What that means is that you should take on an educational opportunity at all cost. Nothing has fueled the growth of worthless Masters degrees more than the idea that there's no such thing as paying too much for education because it will pay off, if not in a good job, you will at least be what, a better person.

@jedbrown getting rejected from phd programs and getting ads for their paid masters and other paid programs afterwards made me feel incredibly nihilistic about academia. i applied again in a different field but i'm glad i saw through the frankly naked scheme