Sep 10, 2024
Professors Gonsalves and Levy are members of the Coalition against Campus Debt which authored Lend and Rule: Fighting the Shadow Financialization of Public Universities. Lend and Rule, drawing on experiences and lessons from Salem State, exposes how campus debt, money campuses borrow for capital needs to compensate for shortfalls in state funding, is a primary driver of university austerity, miseducation, and the deepening of societal inequality and provides a toolbox for organizing against institutional debt.