American Campus Podcast

a social and political history of US higher ed

The university’s creditors with Sofya Aptekar

October 15, 2025 • Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

On hedge funds, private equity, and the financialization of public colleges.

References and suggested readings:

The Coalition Against Campus Debt. 2024. Lend and Rule: Fighting the Financialization of Public Universities. Common Notions Press.
Sofya Aptekar’s faculty page
sofyaaptekar.com
Robin D. G. Kelley. 2022. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (20th anniversary edition). Beacon Press.
Robin D. G. Kelley. Fall 2022. Twenty Years of Freedom Dreams. Boston Review.

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