Adam Kissel
Adam Kissel is a Senior Fellow at the Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy.
He was deputy assistant secretary for higher-education programs in the U.S. Education Department, 2017–18. Adam was vice president and defense director for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education for five years.
He graduated from Harvard University and from the University of Chicago, where he served as Student Liaison to the Board of Trustees and earned a master’s degree from the Committee on Social Thought. His academic interests include the history and theory of liberal education, academic freedom, and rhetoric, and rhetoric’s relationship with philosophy.
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Student Loan Forgiveness and the Shifting Standards of the Department of Education
“There’s no need to be shy about calling the Department’s plans a new socialism of higher education: pay only what you can, the minimum amount vanishes toward zero, and the taxpayer will cover the rest.” ~ Adam Kissel
Defund, Defund, Defund
“It is unclear how many grant competitions remain to be adjudicated at ED and other agencies, or how much money is at stake. But when schools, colleges, corporations, mayors, and governors say that ‘health and safety are our highest priorities,’ we should take them at their word. None of them should make any fuss when…
