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StudentNation is a program of the Nation Fund for Independent Journalism and is made possible through generous funding from the Puffin Foundation. StudentNation focuses on first-person accounts from student activists, organizers, and journalists and has helped launch the careers of contributors to The New York TimesVoxBusiness InsiderTeen Vogue, the Guardian, and more. If you’re a student and you have an article idea, please send pitches and questions to [email protected]

NYU Divest Hosts Bill McKibben, Faces Rebuff From Administration

NYU Divest Hosts Bill McKibben, Faces Rebuff From Administration NYU Divest Hosts Bill McKibben, Faces Rebuff From Administration

The environmental activist and self-described “professional bummer-out-er" spoke at Cooper Union's historic Great Hall last night.

Feb 6, 2013 / StudentNation / Melissa Cronin and StudentNation

Brooklyn College President Defends BDS Forum Brooklyn College President Defends BDS Forum

"it is incumbent upon us to uphold the tenets of academic freedom and allow our students and faculty to engage in dialogue and debate on topics they may choose, even those with whi...

Feb 4, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Where Are the Student Voices in the Gun Control Debate?

Where Are the Student Voices in the Gun Control Debate? Where Are the Student Voices in the Gun Control Debate?

In the wake of Newtown, students are upping the fight against racial injustice in school discipline.

Feb 4, 2013 / StudentNation / James Cersonsky and StudentNation

Dispatches from the US Student Movement: Feb. 1

Dispatches from the US Student Movement: Feb. 1 Dispatches from the US Student Movement: Feb. 1

This week, students host convergences, boycott standardized tests and chain themselves to a potted tree. Can need-blind admissions be saved at Wesleyan? After Adios Arpaio, what...

Feb 1, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/1/2013) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/1/2013)

This week: immigrants cross the US-Mexico border using GPS and poetry, US-trained armies around the world commit attrocities and pundits and politicians shoot themselves in the foo...

Feb 1, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

New Immigration Proposals Could Make Citizenship Easier for NC Students New Immigration Proposals Could Make Citizenship Easier for NC Students

When freshman James Ellsmoor graduates from UNC-CH, he wants to be able to stay in the United States and work — and a federal proposal might make it easier for him to do that...

Jan 31, 2013 / StudentNation / Claire Strickland and StudentNation

NYU Program Makes Palestinians and Israelis Roommates NYU Program Makes Palestinians and Israelis Roommates

One young Palestinian woman explains the program that has brought eight students to NYU to share a bedroom with a student from the opposite territory, and spend twice a week in dia...

Jan 31, 2013 / StudentNation / Brett Chamberlin and StudentNation

Brooklyn College PoliSci Department Defends BDS Panel Brooklyn College PoliSci Department Defends BDS Panel

“On college campuses around the country and across the world, BDS is being discussed. Brooklyn College should be no different.”

Jan 30, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Locked Into a Climate Crisis

Locked Into a Climate Crisis Locked Into a Climate Crisis

We will continue to call for climate justice—because the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice, and because we have no other choice.

Jan 28, 2013 / StudentNation / Alli Welton and StudentNation

Colby Students Call for Divestment Colby Students Call for Divestment

Colby, with its biomass plant and its pledge to be carbon neutral by 2015, is a leader in sustainability. C.A.R.E. believes that Colby should divest from fossil fuels as part of it...

Jan 28, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

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