Despite Bargaining Slowdowns, RA Unions Are Still Booming Despite Bargaining Slowdowns, RA Unions Are Still Booming
As college costs continue to increase, undergraduate Residential Assistants are organizing for better pay and working conditions.
Jul 10, 2024 / StudentNation / Lucy Tobier
Women Scientists Women Scientists
Lise Meitner (1878–1968), Austrian physicist. Nettie Stevens (1861–1912), American geneticist. Ángela Ruiz Robles (1895–1975), Spanish teacher, writer, pioneer and inventor. Mary A...
Jul 9, 2024 / OppArt / Adriana Mosquera Soto
There Is No Universal Free Speech There Is No Universal Free Speech
PEN America hides behind the false universalism of free speech, but institutions always choose whom to protect.
Jul 5, 2024 / P.E. Moskowitz
Thanks to These Activists, in New Mexico Schools There Is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch Thanks to These Activists, in New Mexico Schools There Is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch
Universal free school meals are a popular and effective way to help kids remain engaged in learning and boost local agriculture. Why does it take such a fight to make them policy?...
Jun 26, 2024 / Nora De La Cour
It’s Time for Progressives to Recommit to Academic Freedom It’s Time for Progressives to Recommit to Academic Freedom
The same justifications we’ve used to restrict conservative speech are being used to silence us on Palestine. We need a different approach.
Jun 25, 2024 / Tascha Shahriari-Parsa
I’ve Just Been Canceled For Talking about America’s Israel/Palestine Policy! I’ve Just Been Canceled For Talking about America’s Israel/Palestine Policy!
This kind of penny-ante bullying reveals the intellectual bankruptcy of the pro-Israel cause.
Jun 21, 2024 / Jeet Heer
As the NCAA Debates New Rules, Trans Athletes Are Left Out of the Conversation As the NCAA Debates New Rules, Trans Athletes Are Left Out of the Conversation
At least 24 states have restricted transgender athletes’ participation in sports, and these policymaking decisions often lack input from those most affected.
Jun 20, 2024 / StudentNation / Liam Beran
Why "Fund Students, Not Systems" Is a Recipe for Disaster Why "Fund Students, Not Systems" Is a Recipe for Disaster
When the "Race to the Top" becomes winner take all, students are the big losers. And as the stakes grow higher and higher, public education falls further behind.
Jun 18, 2024 / Feature / Jennifer C. Berkshire and Jack Schneider
Students and Staff Grapple With the Sudden Closure of University of the Arts Students and Staff Grapple With the Sudden Closure of University of the Arts
Administrators announced the closure with little warning on May 31. “It was like a slap in the face or a punch in the gut. It just didn’t feel real.”
Jun 18, 2024 / StudentNation / Lucy Tobier
The Liberal Police State: How Democrats Are Playing Into GOP Hands The Liberal Police State: How Democrats Are Playing Into GOP Hands
Applying the tactics of counterinsurgency warfare to peaceful domestic protest risks blurring the line between Trump and his opponents.
Jun 14, 2024 / Sandy Tolan