Bitter Winter at NYU Bitter Winter at NYU
Striking graduate teaching assistants and NYU administrators are hunkered down for a protracted fight, as President John Sexton has threatened strikers with loss of their teaching ...
Dec 21, 2005 / Scott Sherman
The Increasingly Private Public School The Increasingly Private Public School
The privatization of the nation's greatest, once-public colleges and universities is well under way. The loss of low-cost higher education is a quiet tragedy, one that will severel...
Oct 25, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
Brooklyn Prof in Godless Shocker Brooklyn Prof in Godless Shocker
People who believe in academic freedom should denounce CUNY's treatment of an atheist professor.
Jun 9, 2005 / Column / Katha Pollitt
After the Boycott… What? After the Boycott… What?
The Israeli university boycott and its subsequent reversal could have been avoided.
Jun 2, 2005 / D.D. Guttenplan
Israeli Boycott: A Mistake Israeli Boycott: A Mistake
The British Association of University Teachers should overturn its boycott of Israeli academics.
May 19, 2005 / Jon Wiener
Keep Talking Keep Talking
The origins of the Princeton filibuster protest.
May 4, 2005 / Asheesh Kapur Siddique
Harvard Divests Harvard Divests
Students succeed in making the university pull out of a Chinese oil company funding slaughter in Sudan.
Apr 28, 2005 / Feature / Sam Graham-Felsen
Columbia Unbecoming Columbia Unbecoming
An internal memo urges retaliation against graduate students who want a union.
Apr 25, 2005 / Feature / Jennifer Washburn
The Captive Mind The Captive Mind
Since September 11, we've heard a lot about the "intelligence failures" that left the United States unprepared for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Mar 17, 2005 / The Editors
Teachers for Peace Teachers for Peace
Educators share strategies for opposing the war.
Mar 16, 2005 / Feature / Lauren Bans