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Where Credit Is Due (Higher Education, Society)

To view education as a profit-making business is to attack the lifelong love of learning.

Patricia J. Williams
The Ritual Sacrifice of Samantha Power (Presidential Election 2008, Media Analysis, Higher Education, Politics, Society)

A principled academic gets ground up in the media hypocrisy machine.

Eric Alterman
Professing Literature in 2008 (Higher Education, The Short of It, Society)

Why is the intellectual agenda of English departments being set by teenagers?

William Deresiewicz
Repress U (Higher Education, Police and Law Enforcement, Society)

Surveillance 101: Big Brother goes to college.

Michael Gould-Wartofsky
A Hoax Exposed at Princeton (Conservatives and the American Right, Higher Education, Politics, Society)

When a strait-laced Princeton student claimed he was attacked by liberal thugs, the conservative establishment rallied around him--until it turned out to be a lie.

Max Blumenthal
The Soldier and the Student (Higher Education, US Military, Society)

Today's military members face red tape, false advertising and multiple deployments. What happened to the promises of the original GI Bill?

Aaron Glantz
The Culture War Descends on Columbia (Religion, Social Justice, Activism, Higher Education, Dissent After 9-11, Society)

David Horowitz's Islamofascism Awareness Week hits the already beleaguered campus.

Esther Kaplan
The New McCarthyism (Regions and Countries, Higher Education, Society)

A network of right-wing activists on college and high school campuses are targeting Muslims, Arabs and other Mideast experts, indifferent to the truth or decency of their charges.

Larry Cohler-Esses
John Templeton's Universe (Higher Education, Society)

The right-wing philanthropist is pushing the phony science of positive psychology to numb Americans into smiley-faced acquiescence to the status quo.

Barbara Ehrenreich
Bonehead U (Sports, Higher Education, Society)

Forget about raising money for actual teaching or research. Institutions of higher learning would rather troll for money for their sports teams.

Nicholas von Hoffman

Blogs

What You Need to Know About the Indiana University Strike
StudentNation

This week, students and staff will walk out of class and off the job in support of a comprehensive set of demands for worker rights and economic equity.

April 8, 2013
For-Profit Fiasco: California Public Colleges Turn to Web Courses
Jon Wiener

First, cut the budget so students can’t get the courses they need. Then, bring in for-profit companies.

March 14, 2013
Anatomy of a Failed Campus: What Happened At NYU's Tisch Asia?
StudentNation

Amid the university's rapid international expansion, there is a story of an NYU campus that failed. So what happened in Singapore? It depends who you ask. 

March 6, 2013
Dispatches From the US Student Movement: March 1
StudentNation

This week, students across the country rail against program cuts, tuition hikes and racist university policies. What’s next for reproductive justice in Alabama? Could Congress be on the verge of a student new deal?

March 1, 2013
Challenging Georgia's Ban on Undocumented Students
StudentNation

As the national debate on comprehensive immigration reform heats up, Georgia activists are fighting racist state-level policy.

February 27, 2013
NYU Divest Hosts Bill McKibben, Faces Rebuff From Administration
StudentNation

The environmental activist and self-described “professional bummer-out-er" spoke at Cooper Union's historic Great Hall last night.

February 6, 2013
NYU Program Makes Palestinians and Israelis Roommates
StudentNation

One young Palestinian woman explains the program that has brought eight students to NYU to share a bedroom with a student from the opposite territory, and spend twice a week in dialogue about “the conflict, the history, the legitimacy of the country, the definition of terrorism.”

January 31, 2013
When Universities Sell Art: The Case of Columbia's Rembrandt
Jon Wiener

Columbia’s Rembrandt, sold in 1975 for $1 million, is back on the market—for $47 million.

January 21, 2013
Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign Wraps Up First Semester on 192 Campuses
StudentNation

A new campaign to push colleges and universities to divest from the fossil fuel industry spread like wildfire this past semester.

January 2, 2013
NYU Divest Calls On President Sexton To End Fossil Fuel Investments
StudentNation

The campus divestment movement has made its way to NYU, where students and faculty are pressuring the administration to cut its ties with the fossil fuel industry.

December 12, 2012