A Jeffersonian Challenge to the Tories of Fitzwalkerstan A Jeffersonian Challenge to the Tories of Fitzwalkerstan
Activists challenging Walker administration assaults on public education and on college students from immigrant families disrupt Wisconsin legislative hearing with a reading from t...
Jun 3, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols
Students in Burkina Faso Protest in Solidarity With Teachers Students in Burkina Faso Protest in Solidarity With Teachers
Students in this West African nation are supporting their teacher's demands that the government increase their wage and reduce the class size. Demonstrations have spread across the...
May 23, 2011 / StudentNation / Sara Jerving
Arizona’s Choice Today: Tucson Students Lead New Civil Rights Movement Arizona’s Choice Today: Tucson Students Lead New Civil Rights Movement
Stumbling further into the quagmire of a national public relations disaster, drastic new measures by the Tucson Unified School District officials have turned the “manufacture...
May 3, 2011 / StudentNation / Jeff Biggers
Will Exploitative Corporate Practices Go the Way of South African Apartheid? Will Exploitative Corporate Practices Go the Way of South African Apartheid?
The year was 1986. Yale University President Bart Giamatti was on his way back to his office from a birthday lunch when he stumbled upon Mike Morand, a student leader of the anti-a...
Apr 22, 2011 / StudentNation / James Cersonsky
Updates On Last Week’s Occupations at Dickinson, Milwaukee, Berkeley Updates On Last Week’s Occupations at Dickinson, Milwaukee, Berkeley
Last week’s March 2 National Day of Action saw scores of protests in more than a dozen states—including two that ended in arrests and one that ended with a bunch of p...
Mar 7, 2011 / StudentNation / Angus Johnston
Pennsylvania Students Protests Against Sexual Violence and Administrators Respond Pennsylvania Students Protests Against Sexual Violence and Administrators Respond
Students at Dickinson College refused to leave their campus administrative offices until the officials met their demands to change the campus's sexual assault policy. And their dem...
Mar 4, 2011 / StudentNation / Sara Jerving
A Vote to Cut Grants to Low-Income Students Provokes a National Day of Action A Vote to Cut Grants to Low-Income Students Provokes a National Day of Action
The United States Student Association is organizing nationwide resistence to a House vote to cut the Pell Grant and TRIO programs.
Mar 2, 2011 / StudentNation / Sara Jerving
Students March for Abortion Rights Students March for Abortion Rights
Protesters in 55 cities worldwide gathered for International Walk for Choice day on Saturday.
Mar 1, 2011 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Students Lead Struggles for Freedom in Middle East and North Africa Students Lead Struggles for Freedom in Middle East and North Africa
The next leader to be toppled will fall because of the desire of students and youth to win a better future.
Feb 23, 2011 / StudentNation / Kevin Gosztola
Slide Show: The Top 14 Student Activism Stories of The Year Slide Show: The Top 14 Student Activism Stories of The Year
A core mission of StudentNation is to highlight the frequent but often overlooked instances of student and youth engagement with critical political, economic and cultural questions. This round-up below offers an incomplete but illustrative survey of the scope and breadth of student activism nationwide.
Jan 14, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation