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A group of five UNC freshman boys walk on campus wearing masks.

Universities Are Playing Fast and Loose With Students’ Health Universities Are Playing Fast and Loose With Students’ Health

Who’s really responsible for Covid-19 outbreaks when university campuses reopen?

Aug 17, 2020 / StudentNation / Cynthia Greenlee

How Men’s Rights Groups Helped Rewrite Regulations on Campus Rape

How Men’s Rights Groups Helped Rewrite Regulations on Campus Rape How Men’s Rights Groups Helped Rewrite Regulations on Campus Rape

E-mails shared with The Nation reveal a deep collaboration between the Department of Education and organizations that believe in a crisis of false rape allegations.

Aug 14, 2020 / StudentNation / Hélène Barthélemy

The Pandemic Is Killing Research—So Where Is University Support?

The Pandemic Is Killing Research—So Where Is University Support? The Pandemic Is Killing Research—So Where Is University Support?

“I’m a Covid researcher whose university is abandoning me and my colleagues. And I’m one of the lucky ones.”

Jul 27, 2020 / StudentNation / Ian Schlegel

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We Can Reopen Schools if We Make the City the Classroom We Can Reopen Schools if We Make the City the Classroom

Radical education ideas from the 1960s and ’70s can help us safely teach children during a pandemic.

Jul 21, 2020 / StudentNation / Nikhil Goyal

We’re in a Pandemic. Cancel Student Debt Now.

We’re in a Pandemic. Cancel Student Debt Now. We’re in a Pandemic. Cancel Student Debt Now.

Student borrowers say that congressional relief has been woefully insufficient. And they’re terrified facing its end in September.

Jul 20, 2020 / StudentNation / Veronica Irwin

Child in classroom

Schools: To Open or Not to Open? That Is Not the Question. Schools: To Open or Not to Open? That Is Not the Question.

The question is: Will the US government provide the safety net and wealth redistribution necessary to support life in this country?

Jul 16, 2020 / StudentNation / Rhea Boyd

There Are Literally No Good Options for Educating Our Kids This Fall

There Are Literally No Good Options for Educating Our Kids This Fall There Are Literally No Good Options for Educating Our Kids This Fall

But the real scandal is that we shouldn’t be in this position in the first place.

Jul 16, 2020 / StudentNation / Elie Mystal

Letting Go of Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee University

Letting Go of Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee University Letting Go of Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee University

It is going to get increasingly hard to persuade high school students who care about diversity to attend a university named after a Confederate general.

Jun 25, 2020 / StudentNation / Toni Locy

What About the International Students?

What About the International Students? What About the International Students?

The coronavirus threw their lives into disarray. Months in, their futures are still uncertain.

Jun 15, 2020 / StudentNation / Jimin Kang

With Covid-19, We Need to Rethink the Youth Vote

With Covid-19, We Need to Rethink the Youth Vote With Covid-19, We Need to Rethink the Youth Vote

It’ll make or break the coming election.

Jun 12, 2020 / StudentNation / Jazmin Kay

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