Higher Education

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

Trump University

Trump’s Racist Judicial Attack Deliberately Obscures the Larger Story: For-Profit Schools Trump’s Racist Judicial Attack Deliberately Obscures the Larger Story: For-Profit Schools

By now this should be a familiar Trump tactic: Distract attention from hard ethical questions by playing to everyone’s most base instincts.

Jun 3, 2016 / Julianne Hing

Students at at the University of Missouri

Will the Millennial Movement Rebuild the Ivory Tower or Be Crushed by It? Will the Millennial Movement Rebuild the Ivory Tower or Be Crushed by It?

School administrators absorb student demands into an increasingly market-oriented system of higher education.

May 23, 2016 / Aviva Chomsky

Benedict Anderson’s View of Nationalism

Benedict Anderson’s View of Nationalism Benedict Anderson’s View of Nationalism

The child of late empire, who transformed the field of area studies, lived a life beyond boundaries.

May 19, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Scott Sherman

Protest Fossil Fuel

Are Universities Actively Thwarting Efforts to Combat Climate Change? Are Universities Actively Thwarting Efforts to Combat Climate Change?

Just as the world is starting to come to its senses about climate change, universities are strangely obstructing progress.

May 12, 2016 / StudentNation / Benjamin Franta

Everett University Diploma

For-Profit Colleges Have Found a New Way to Hoodwink Their Students For-Profit Colleges Have Found a New Way to Hoodwink Their Students

Read this before you sign anything.

May 9, 2016 / Michelle Chen

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