Higher Education

University of California workers rallying at UC Berkeley in November 2025.

As Universities Fold to Trump, This Union Is Still Fighting for International Students As Universities Fold to Trump, This Union Is Still Fighting for International Students

While the University of California has often followed the Trump administration’s demands, union organizers have made protecting immigrants a top priority during contract negotiati...

Dec 5, 2025 / StudentNation / Emma Murphree and Emily Putnam

President Donald Trump speaks during the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters on September 23, 2025, in New York City.

How Trump Is Using Claims of Antisemitism to End Free Speech How Trump Is Using Claims of Antisemitism to End Free Speech

Trump’s urge to suppress free speech may be about Israel today, but count on one thing: It will be about something else tomorrow.

Dec 1, 2025 / Mattea Kramer

Students pass through the Sample Gates at Indiana University in Bloomington.

She Gave a Lecture on White Supremacy. IU Removed Her From the Class. She Gave a Lecture on White Supremacy. IU Removed Her From the Class.

Jessica Adams was barred from teaching a course on social justice for six weeks after showing a graphic that listed MAGA and Columbus Day as forms of “covert white supremacy.”

Nov 25, 2025 / StudentNation / Ella Curlin

Stanford students and activists outside of the White Memorial Plaza in March 2025.

Stanford Students Sue Over Trump’s Crackdown on Political Speech Stanford Students Sue Over Trump’s Crackdown on Political Speech

Amid the administration’s war on higher education, The Stanford Daily’s lawsuit targets federal statutes that allow deportation and visa revocation based on political speech.

Nov 24, 2025 / StudentNation / Rani Chor

A sign encouraging people to vote sits in the middle of the University of Pittsburgh campus on November 5, 2024.

The Fight for American Democracy on College Campuses The Fight for American Democracy on College Campuses

The promises of the 26th Amendment remain unfulfilled.

Nov 19, 2025 / Yael Bromberg and Jonathan Becker

Students and alumni at Tufts University demonstrate for fossil fuel divestment in April 2015.

Winning a Fossil Fuel Divestment Pledge Is Hard. Keeping It Is Harder. Winning a Fossil Fuel Divestment Pledge Is Hard. Keeping It Is Harder.

Nearly a decade after promising to withdraw millions in fossil fuel investments, the University of Massachusetts has stalled on its clean energy transition. What happened?

Nov 6, 2025 / StudentNation / Eric Ross

A graduate of Los Angeles Valley Colleges wears a design on her graduation cap that writes,

Community Colleges at the Crossroads Community Colleges at the Crossroads

Class and an American reckoning.

Nov 3, 2025 / Keenan Norris

Pedestrians on the campus of Indiana University–Bloomington in Bloomington, Indiana.

Why Did Indiana University Axe Its Award-Winning Print Newspaper? Why Did Indiana University Axe Its Award-Winning Print Newspaper?

If the administration can censor the Indiana Daily Student—one of the most acclaimed student publications in the nation—then student journalism everywhere is at risk.

Oct 24, 2025 / StudentNation / Ella Curlin

In UChicago’s Mansueto Library, the bookstacks are all underground and unbrowsable.

Why Did UChicago Destroy the Humanities? Why Did UChicago Destroy the Humanities?

The answer is simple: to spend untold sums on useless buildings by starchitects.

Oct 15, 2025 / Column / Kate Wagner

Linda McMahon, US education secretary, during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies hearing in Washington, DC, on June 3, 2025. The US Department of Education is pushing to strip workplace protections for pregnant or LGBTQ staff, telling its employee union the policies must be changed to conform to President Donald Trump's executive order on “defending women from gender ideology extremism.”

Join a Loyalty Club for Higher Education—While You Still Can! Join a Loyalty Club for Higher Education—While You Still Can!

Another way to show devotion to the nation and to truth.

Oct 14, 2025 / Michael Roth

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