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Campus spies. Pepper spray. SWAT teams. Welcome to Repress U, class of 2012.

Sparked by the Occupy Wall Street movement, students and academics are organizing a nationwide student loan strike. 

The Medill School of Journalism's change of name is indicative of wider -- and frightening -- trends in journalism education.

After 100 years, the tragedy still inspires outrage and grief. Why does it have a hold on us?

Massive layoffs, reductions in class offerings and downsizing of graduate programs spurred protests at dozens of universities on March 4. What's next for the student movement?

The educational odysseys of Hunter College's foreign-born graduates disprove the lies spread by anti-immigrant politicians.

Remembering the political economist who brought to contemporary issues the research and philosophical vision of a scholar.

Companies try to discredit the experts.

Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear.

Trading in their books for buckets, welfare recipients learn
"responsibility."