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]

Andrew Shirvell Needs to be Fired If We Want to End Violence Against Gays Andrew Shirvell Needs to be Fired If We Want to End Violence Against Gays

In his unrelenting online attacks on the University of Michigan's first openly gay president, assistant attorney general Andrew Shirvell feeds America's culture of violent homoph...

Oct 5, 2010 / StudentNation / Vivekananda Nemana

National Day of Action to Defend Public Education National Day of Action to Defend Public Education

On October 7, tens of thousands of students, faculty and supporters will take part in coordinated actions to defend public education.

Oct 5, 2010 / StudentNation / Peter Rothberg

Students Spread the Love Students Spread the Love

In a campus chalking campaign Monday, students fight against LGBT suicides

Oct 4, 2010 / StudentNation / Anjali Tsui

Congress Wants to Cut Food Stamps to Fund School Lunches Congress Wants to Cut Food Stamps to Fund School Lunches

Anti-hunger activists explain why cutting food stamps is going to hurt kids.

Oct 3, 2010 / StudentNation / Braden Goyette

Put Religion Back in Public Schools Put Religion Back in Public Schools

What we need is more religion in schools.

Sep 29, 2010 / StudentNation / Michael Tracey

Ramadan Roadtrip Ramadan Roadtrip

30 mosques, 30 states, 30 days

Sep 28, 2010 / StudentNation / Maria Kari

Texas Claims ‘Bias Against Christianity’ in Textbooks Texas Claims ‘Bias Against Christianity’ in Textbooks

Can the Texas Board of Education use its purchasing power to determine how Islam is portrayed in your state's textbooks?

Sep 28, 2010 / StudentNation / Braden Goyette

Affirmative Action for the Rich: Legacy Preferences in College Admissions Affirmative Action for the Rich: Legacy Preferences in College Admissions

A new book examines examines this less publicized but ethically precarious admissions booster.

Sep 28, 2010 / StudentNation / Laura Stampler

Two New Havens Two New Havens

Students and locals should do lots of service, study urban planning, but we should stand by the community when it disagrees with the institutional powers that be.

Sep 27, 2010 / StudentNation / James Cersonsky

The 2010 Nation Student Writing Contest

The 2010 Nation Student Writing Contest The 2010 Nation Student Writing Contest

Read the high school and college winners plus ten finalists, all writing personally about how budget cuts have affected their education.

Sep 27, 2010 / StudentNation / The Nation

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