Higher Education

Student Debt Customers

A New Report Sheds Light on Profiteering by So-Called Debt-Relief Companies A New Report Sheds Light on Profiteering by So-Called Debt-Relief Companies

Finally, a clear picture of how student-debt-relief companies take advantage of loan borrowers.

Aug 17, 2016 / StudentNation / Natalia Abrams and Cody Hounanian

Obama speaking in panel

Why White People Need to Talk About Racism Too Why White People Need to Talk About Racism Too

I’ve inadvertently ended many a conversation by bringing up the issue of race.

Aug 4, 2016 / StudentNation / Zachary R. Wood

Dollars and graduation cap

5 Countries That Know How to Handle Student Debt 5 Countries That Know How to Handle Student Debt

It doesn’t have to be this way.

Aug 4, 2016 / StudentNation / Natalia Abrams and Cody Hounanian

We Still Need a Future to Believe In

We Still Need a Future to Believe In We Still Need a Future to Believe In

A forum on how to build the political revolution with Naomi Klein, Alicia Garza, Michael Moore, Frances Fox Piven, Robert Reich, Kshama Sawant, Josh Fox, and more.

Jul 18, 2016 / Feature / Various Contributors

Asking for a Friend: I’m Very Privileged—Can I Still Apply for Fellowships Meant to Help People of Color?

Asking for a Friend: I’m Very Privileged—Can I Still Apply for Fellowships Meant to Help People of Color? Asking for a Friend: I’m Very Privileged—Can I Still Apply for Fellowships Meant to Help People of Color?

And a white person wonders how best to express solidarity with a friend suffering from the rise in xenophobia.

Jul 14, 2016 / Asking for a Friend / Liza Featherstone

Brooklyn College student activists

Building Student Power Through Participatory Budgeting Building Student Power Through Participatory Budgeting

Students are pressing to bring the process to the City University of New York, one of the nation's largest public universities, serving more than 270,000 students.

Jul 13, 2016 / StudentNation / Brandon Jordan

Seattle University Students Protest

How Student Movements for Racial Justice Can Survive Summer Break How Student Movements for Racial Justice Can Survive Summer Break

Administrators count on summer break to subdue campus activism, but student groups across Seattle aren’t letting that happen.

Jul 12, 2016 / StudentNation / Alia Marsha

Sweatshop worker

Colleges Aren’t Enforcing Their Own Anti-Sweatshop Policies Colleges Aren’t Enforcing Their Own Anti-Sweatshop Policies

SUNY’s failure to enforce its anti-sweatshop policies is a reminder that major institutional consumers can only go so far in addressing the crisis of globalized labor abuses.

Jun 27, 2016 / StudentNation / Michelle Chen

Corinthian Colleges

The Victims of For-Profit Education Are Creating a Debtors’ Movement The Victims of For-Profit Education Are Creating a Debtors’ Movement

The entire for-profit education model is predatory and financially unstable, and exploits students’ dreams of a college education.

Jun 19, 2016 / StudentNation / Michelle Chen

University Hall, Northwestern University

Some Adjunct Professors Earn Just $20,000 a Year Some Adjunct Professors Earn Just $20,000 a Year

An organizing campaign at Northwestern University aims to change that.

Jun 13, 2016 / StudentNation / Michelle Chen

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