StudentNation

StudentNation is a program of the Nation Fund for Independent Journalism and is made possible through generous funding from the Puffin Foundation. StudentNation focuses on first-person accounts from student activists, organizers, and journalists and has helped launch the careers of contributors to The New York TimesVoxBusiness InsiderTeen Vogue, the Guardian, and more. If you’re a student and you have an article idea, please send pitches and questions to [email protected]

Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important Stories (10/21) Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important Stories (10/21)

Every week, Nation interns try to cut through the echo chamber and choose one good article in their area of interest that they feel should receive more attention.   

Oct 24, 2011 / StudentNation / The Nation

Why I Occupy Why I Occupy

A Boston University undergraduate explains.

Oct 24, 2011 / StudentNation / Tarif Ahmed

Why You Need to Be Part of the Occupy Colleges Movement Now

Why You Need to Be Part of the Occupy Colleges Movement Now Why You Need to Be Part of the Occupy Colleges Movement Now

If you are aware of the movement and support the movement, you must be with the movement now.

Oct 21, 2011 / StudentNation / Alyssa Figueroa

Students Briefly Occupy Chile’s Senate Building Students Briefly Occupy Chile’s Senate Building

Dozens of student activists disrupted a Senate committee hearing Thursday, then occupied the Senate office building for eight hours demanding a referendum on how to resolve Chile...

Oct 21, 2011 / StudentNation / The Nation

NYU Students Join Occupy Wall Street Protest NYU Students Join Occupy Wall Street Protest

As the Occupy Wall Street protests surges, so does the student population joining the now international movement.

Oct 20, 2011 / StudentNation / Amy Zhang

Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important Stories (10/14) Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important Stories (10/14)

 Our media coverage is often dominated by one big story that crowds out most everything else. As an antidote, every week, Nationinterns try to cut through the echo chambe...

Oct 14, 2011 / StudentNation / The Nation

Occupy College Defies Stereotype of Quiet, Inert Generation Y

Occupy College Defies Stereotype of Quiet, Inert Generation Y Occupy College Defies Stereotype of Quiet, Inert Generation Y

Participating students in the Occupy College protests achieved something that our generation lacked until this point: a visible presence within a significant social movement.

Oct 12, 2011 / StudentNation / Krystie Yandoli

Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important Stories (10/7/11) Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important Stories (10/7/11)

 Read about this week's important stories around the world, and leave your comments. 

Oct 11, 2011 / StudentNation / The Nation

Free Speech, the Pro-Israel Lobby, and the Case of the ‘Irvine 11’ Free Speech, the Pro-Israel Lobby, and the Case of the ‘Irvine 11’

The “Irvine 11” are fast becoming First Amendment poster children. A closer look at the long history of several external organizations’ interest in their case, ho...

Oct 6, 2011 / StudentNation / Uzma Kolsy

‘Sharing Is Caring’: Students and Teachers Explain Why They Marched to Occupy Wall Street ‘Sharing Is Caring’: Students and Teachers Explain Why They Marched to Occupy Wall Street

Conversations that took place at the march from Foley Square on October 5.

Oct 6, 2011 / StudentNation / Josh Eidelson

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