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Te-Ping Chen : Student Movements
The country's oldest student association has its eyes on the prize--student aid reform.
Higher Education
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2009
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Enrollment Abuse Allegations Plague University of Phoenix
Sharona Coutts
Phoenix has allegedly broken the law by tying recruiters' pay to enrollment numbers, creating pressure to sign up unqualified students.
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Harvard, Heal Thyself (Why Journalism Matters)
Eric Alterman : Journalists & Journalism
A monthlong investigation finds plenty of fire to go with the smoke surrounding the university's incredibly vague conflict-of-interest policies.
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Obama's CIA-on-Campus Program
Jon Wiener : Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Shrouded in secrecy, "intelligence officer training" conflicts with universities' commitment to openness and free inquiry.
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California's Higher Education Crisis
Laila Lalami : Arnold Schwarzenegger
Governor Schwarzenegger's proposed budget cuts would be an unmitigated disaster for California's public universities.
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A Bailout for Students
The Editors
In a slipping economy, the debt burden for students is crippling. Obama's modest but elegant plan is a step in the right direction.
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Out of Reach
Liza Featherstone : Student Movements
As the cost of college hits the stratosphere, students are organizing to bring it down to earth.
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Higher Education Takes a Hit
Gabriel Arana : Labor
As university budgets dwindle, adjunct professors around the country are looking to unionize in a desperate effort to protect their jobs.
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The Student Loan Bailout
Cole Robertson : U.S. Economy
The credit crunch is hitting students hard, but is government aid going to shareholders and CEOs instead of the borrowers who need it most?
2008
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Schooled by the Storm
Three years after Hurricane Katrina, Tulane University thrives, due in part to its revamped commitment to community.
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The 2008 Student Loan Blues
Nicholas von Hoffman : Youth, Education, & Children
Some 200,000 college students won't qualify for loans in September, and millions more will pay higher interest rates. Can they count on Obama to help them out?
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Exit Strategies: Confronting Faulty Grad Tests
A Tennessee student denied a valid high school diploma fights back.
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Warriors for Zion--in California
Accusations by right-wing Zionists of anti-Semitism at the University of California, Irvine, are suspect at best.
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Lessons From Columbia '68
As Columbia University goes forward with controversial plans to expand into Harlem, alumni mark the fortieth anniversary of explosive student protests.
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Motzira-Making on the Right
Eric Alterman : Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
The politics of tenure at Barnard and beyond.
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Sweatin' to the Koran
Katha Pollitt : Islam & Muslims
What do burqas, Osama and fascism have to do with six hours of man-free exercise time at Harvard?
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Where Credit Is Due
To view education as a profit-making business is to attack the lifelong love of learning.
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