The future of public higher education is being held hostage by financial institutions and actors. How did it get this wayampamp160Lend ampampamp Rule reveals the shadow governance of debt and credit in the United States higher education system. With sharp and hardhitting insight the Coalition Against Campus Debt exposes how institutional debt is a primary driver of university austerity miseducation and the deepening of societal inequality.Addressing how our lives are entangled in a debt economy they develop the analysis necessary to transform higher education in todays neoliberal racial capitalist political economy.Part theoretical analysis part toolbox for organizers in higher education Lend ampampamp Rule is an invaluable resource for anyone engaged in debt abolition struggles or looking to acquire a critical and transformative vision of higher education today.