StudentNation

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]

The New Campus Bankers The New Campus Bankers

What will be the fate of public universities if they are allowed to be run like businesses, by businesspeople?

Jan 25, 2013 / StudentNation / Alexander F. Roehrkasse and StudentNation

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (1/25/2013) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (1/25/2013)

This week: the realities of sex work, Western interventionism and Canada is really cold. 

Jan 25, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Why Divestment is Changing the Climate Movement

Why Divestment is Changing the Climate Movement Why Divestment is Changing the Climate Movement

Divestment is engaging more students than any similar campaign in the past twenty years. Why is it so successful?

Jan 24, 2013 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin and StudentNation

Syracuse Faculty Group to Support Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign Syracuse Faculty Group to Support Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign

A letter in Syracuse University's Daily Orange by Political Science professor Sarah Pralle details why she is leading a faculty group in support of student organizing pushing t...

Jan 23, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

First Generation Soviet-Jewry Descendants: Bad Jews? First Generation Soviet-Jewry Descendants: Bad Jews?

Reflections on identity by the founder of the Rutgers University Hillel Russian-Jewish Club.

Jan 22, 2013 / StudentNation / Jonathan Levin and StudentNation

Bill McKibben Webcast From Middlebury College Tonight Bill McKibben Webcast From Middlebury College Tonight

A debate over whether environmental and social concerns should influence investment policies of college and university endowments.

Jan 22, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Public TV Internship Seeks Young Native American Journalists Public TV Internship Seeks Young Native American Journalists

Good opportunities for young Native American journalists to break into the broadcast media.

Jan 21, 2013 / StudentNation / Alec Luhn

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (1/18/2013) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (1/18/2013)

This week: Standardized testing and armed guards in schools, the story behind Facebook Graph Search and questions of black female agency in Django Unchained.

Jan 20, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Dispatches From the US Student Movement

Dispatches From the US Student Movement Dispatches From the US Student Movement

A space for students to share news about the wide range of social and political struggles in which they're involved.

Jan 18, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Movement to End High-Stakes Testing Steps Up in Seattle Movement to End High-Stakes Testing Steps Up in Seattle

Teachers at two Seattle high schools violate district policy and their union contracts by refusing to administer a mandatory test. And signs abound that teachers around the nation ...

Jan 16, 2013 / StudentNation / Dean Paton and StudentNation

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