Cornel West and Adolph Reed Jr Speak on Higher Education

America's system of higher education is in a state of slow-moving crisis. Rising tuition costs and deep cuts in state funding are leaving many of our students in crippling debt, and many others without access to higher education. Please join our distinguished guests for a discussion of how these issues may be addressed in the 2016 presidential campaign and beyond. Adolph Reed, Jr. is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written extensively on American politics, Labor and the American Left, and black intellectual history. He was a co-founder of the U.S. Labor Party, and is co-coordinator of Higher Ed for Bernie and Labor for Bernie. Cornel West is a Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has written widely on matters of race, American politics, and philosophy. He is among the most prominent civil rights leaders of our time.