This Week in the Student Movement: Citywide Walkouts, Athlete Unions, MICATS3, Operation Guinea Pig This Week in the Student Movement: Citywide Walkouts, Athlete Unions, MICATS3, Operation Guinea Pig
From Raleigh to Olympia, students mobilize for worker justice, prison abolition and educational equity.
Feb 10, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Sexual Assault Policies Under Fire at Columbia Sexual Assault Policies Under Fire at Columbia
Students are asking Columbia to disclose sexual assault statistics and make the process easier for survivors.
Feb 10, 2014 / StudentNation / Austin Ryan Heyroth and StudentNation
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 2/7/2014? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 2/7/2014?
This week: Philip Seymour Hoffman and addiction, gentrification's aesthetics and a GMO battle in Hawaii.
Feb 6, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Addressing Class at Yale Addressing Class at Yale
A new Tumblr at Yale opens up a conversation about class, but what will it take to turn discussion into action?
Feb 4, 2014 / StudentNation / Diana Rosen and StudentNation
Students Rethink How to Build Community Students Rethink How to Build Community
Student activists work to build stronger community networks.
Feb 3, 2014 / StudentNation / Erik Lampmann and StudentNation
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 1/31/2014? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 1/31/2014?
This week: Northwestern football players attempt to unionize, NYSUT renounces the Common Core and Nigeria experiments with climate apartheid.
Jan 31, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Student Journalists Applaud New UC Water Conservation Plan Student Journalists Applaud New UC Water Conservation Plan
The university’s approach to conservation is better than California Governor Brown’s, and students should be proud that their system’s leadership has adopted thes...
Jan 31, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Forgive Student Loan Debt: Five Years On Forgive Student Loan Debt: Five Years On
The founder of StudentDebtCrisis.org reflects on the state of the student debt crisis.
Jan 30, 2014 / StudentNation / Robert Applebaum and StudentNation
This Month, Students Massed Against Stop-and-Frisk, Won on Title IX and Scared Off Tom Corbett This Month, Students Massed Against Stop-and-Frisk, Won on Title IX and Scared Off Tom Corbett
From Philadelphia to Sacramento, students fight to reclaim public education.
Jan 27, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation
How Student Activists at Duke Transformed a $6 Billion Endowment How Student Activists at Duke Transformed a $6 Billion Endowment
The success of DukeOpen’s campaign to pressure the university’s board of trustees to reform guidelines on investment responsibility demonstrates the importance of under...
Jan 25, 2014 / StudentNation / Casey Williams, Charlie Molthrop, Jacob Tobia, and StudentNation