Who Runs Our Universities?: Debt's Shadow Governance and How to Organize for Change

The future of public higher education is being held hostage by financial institutions and actors. How did it get this way? Lend & Rule reveals the “shadow governance” of debt and credit in the United States higher education system. With sharp and hard-hitting insight, the Coalition Against Campus Debt exposes how institutional debt is a primary driver of university austerity, miseducation, and the deepening of societal inequality. Addressing how our lives are entangled in a debt economy, they develop the analysis necessary to transform higher education in today’s neoliberal racial capitalist political economy. Part theoretical analysis, part toolbox for organizers in higher education, Lend & Rule is an invaluable resource for anyone engaged in debt abolition struggles or looking to acquire a critical and transformative vision of higher education today.

The future of public higher education is being held hostage by financial institutions and actors. How did it get this way? 

Lend & Rule reveals the “shadow governance” of debt and credit in the United States higher education system. With sharp and hard-hitting insight, the Coalition Against Campus Debt exposes how institutional debt is a primary driver of university austerity, miseducation, and the deepening of societal inequality.

Addressing how our lives are entangled in a debt economy, they develop the analysis necessary to transform higher education in today’s neoliberal racial capitalist political economy.

Part theoretical analysis, part toolbox for organizers in higher education, Lend & Rule is an invaluable resource for anyone engaged in debt abolition struggles or looking to acquire a critical and transformative vision of higher education today.

• | Author: Barbara Madeloni, Tracy Berger, Sofya Aptekar, Richard Levy, Mara del Mar Rosa-Rodrguez, Joanna Gonsalves, Jason Wozniak, Eleni Schirmer, Dana Morrison, Coalition Against Campus Debt
• | Publisher: Common Notions
• | Publication Date: Oct 17, 2024
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781945335129
• | ISBN-10: 1945335122