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Hi Nicole! Here is my video discussion of Excellent Sheep's Chapters 2 and 3. Get ready for the tea! :)

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Hi Alex! Here is my video for Paying the Price - Chapters 2 & 3! #emotionalrollercoaster

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This is the book I referenced in my video. I have a copy if you are ever interested. Very interesting take on the development of higher education and how it truly is "a perfect mess." He argues the dysfunctionality of higher education is exactly the source of its strength.

Super interesting!

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Read the news about America’s colleges and universities—rising student debt, affirmative action debates, and conflicts between faculty and administrators—and it’s clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labaree reminds us in this book, it’s always been that way. And that’s exactly why it has become the most successful and sought-after source of learning in the world. Detailing American higher education’s unusual struggle for survival in a free market that never guaranteed its place in society—a fact that seemed to doom it in its early days in the nineteenth century—he tells a lively story of the entrepreneurial spirit that drove American higher education to become the best. And the best it is: today America’s universities and colleges produce the most scholarship, earn the most Nobel prizes, hold the largest endowments, and attract the most esteemed students and scholars from around the world. But this was not an inevitability. Weakly funded by the state, American schools in their early years had to rely on student tuition and alumni donations in order to survive. This gave them tremendous autonomy to seek out sources of financial support and pursue unconventional opportunities to ensure their success. As Labaree shows, by striving as much as possible to meet social needs and fulfill individual ambitions, they developed a broad base of political and financial support that, grounded by large undergraduate programs, allowed for the most cutting-edge research and advanced graduate study ever conducted. As a result, American higher education eventually managed to combine a unique mix of the populist, the practical, and the elite in a single complex system. The answers to today’s problems in higher education are not easy, but as this book shows, they shouldn’t be: no single person or institution can determine higher education’s future. It is something that faculty, administrators, and students—adapting to society’s needs—will determine together, just as they have always done.

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Pell grant barriers due to Big Beautiful Bill

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Pell grant barriers due to Big Beautiful Bill

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Another thing that came to mind when you talked about Pell grant is the new proposed changes to Pell eligibility from the Big Beautiful Bill. With enrollment eligibility increasing to 30 hours from 24, many students, especially non-traditional students, will no longer be eligible due to the new requirement. Access to higher education will continue decreasing, and it's terrible!

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This is me when I think of financial literacy, especially when it comes to understanding cost of attendance, SAI, EFC, financial resources, subsidized, non-subsidized loans..Oh my!