Young, Educated and Unpaid Young, Educated and Unpaid
Jett Wells, an unpaid intern for HuffingtonPost, has made a very good video about unpaid internships.
Jul 21, 2010 / StudentNation / The Nation
Protesters Arrested in NC Claiming School Plan Would Resegregate System Protesters Arrested in NC Claiming School Plan Would Resegregate System
Police in Raleigh, NC arrested 19 people at a contentious school board meeting yesterday where protesters accused the Wake County School Board of adopting a plan that will resegreg...
Jul 20, 2010 / StudentNation / The Nation
A Big Next Step in College Journalism A Big Next Step in College Journalism
New consortium aims to address obstacles confronting college journalism through an unprecedented editorial and financial collaboration.
Jul 18, 2010 / StudentNation / Aaron Ross
Teach For America More Competitive Than Ever Teach For America More Competitive Than Ever
The fact that college graduates are drawn to public service programs, even if it is because they might be waiting out a poor economy, is encouraging.
Jul 14, 2010 / StudentNation / Kay Steiger
College Media Censorship College Media Censorship
A year-end review of efforts to limit student press expression coast to coast.
Jul 13, 2010 / StudentNation / The Nation
Catholicism, Homosexuality, Hate Speech, and Incompetence Catholicism, Homosexuality, Hate Speech, and Incompetence
A morality tale at the University of Illinois.
Jul 13, 2010 / StudentNation / The Nation
UT Agrees to Re-Name Dorm Honoring Klansman UT Agrees to Re-Name Dorm Honoring Klansman
On July 9, Bill Powers, president of the University of Texas, announced that he would accept the recommendation of a 21-member panel to re-name a residence hall honoring William Stewart Simkins, an unapologetic Ku Klux Klan organizer who later became a law professor at the University of Texas, a job he held from 1899 until his death in 1929. The UT administration has been called on several times in the past few years to change the names of several of its buildings, but Powers made little headway on his promise to consider modifications until the Simkins story—and the protests of African-American groups on campus and in the community—garnered national attention. (For background, read this June 13 StudentNation report.) Dr. Greg Vincent, Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement and chair of the advisory panel, said that the renaming was recommended because the dorm’s current title “compromises public trust and the university’s reputation,” and because it was “inconsistent with the core values of [the] university”—which means, of course, that it was making the school’s diversity efforts and inclusiveness look bad. So, while it’s a good thing that Simkins will no longer have an exalted place on UT’s campus, the decision also raises inevitable questions about the other Southern heroes littering the lawns and the extent to which this particular renaming is only a capitulation to public outcry. Whether this qualifies as progress on the Texas campus—whether it will foster a more welcoming environment for minorities —will really lie in the narrative UT constructs for its incoming students and its future. Sara Haji, a Nation intern and freelance writer, is a recent graduate from the University of Texas, Austin.
Jul 11, 2010 / StudentNation / Sara Haji
Texas Fails High School Texas Fails High School
Without accurate reports and transparent outcomes, the urgent need to implement high school reforms could pass without notice.
Jul 9, 2010 / StudentNation / Sara Haji
More Than 1,000 Young People Gather in DC More Than 1,000 Young People Gather in DC
Coming together for Campus Progress's National Conference to develop ideas, networks and innovations that can help create a more progressive America.
Jul 8, 2010 / StudentNation / The Nation
France Tries to Diversify Higher Education France Tries to Diversify Higher Education
The US and French systems are vastly differrent, but if we're any example, the French have got their work cut out for them.
Jul 1, 2010 / StudentNation / Carrie Battan