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]

How To Make It in America: Manifesto by the Average American-Muslim How To Make It in America: Manifesto by the Average American-Muslim

The Crescent Directive is a nicely packaged story, stratagem, and vision of "how PTA meetings, Thanksgiving dinners, and Little League baseball can save the image of Islam ...

Jan 24, 2012 / StudentNation / Maria Kari

Baltimore Algebra Project Stops Juvenile Detention Center

Baltimore Algebra Project Stops Juvenile Detention Center Baltimore Algebra Project Stops Juvenile Detention Center

When Bob Moses brought his Algebra Project to Baltimore in 1990, he could hardly have imagined the impact his mathematics curriculum would have on the city’s youth two deca...

Jan 24, 2012 / StudentNation / Umar Farooq

Occupy Riverside Student Injured by Police Occupy Riverside Student Injured by Police

Students, many who believed the days of violent police actions were behind them, will continue to protest until officials get it right: students have the right to peacefully comm...

Jan 23, 2012 / StudentNation / Diana Delgado

Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important (and Undercovered) Stories (1/18) Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important (and Undercovered) Stories (1/18)

Every week, Nation interns try to cut through the echo chamber and choose one good article in their area of interest that they feel should receive more attention.

Jan 19, 2012 / StudentNation / The Nation

From Harvard to Wall Street: Recruiting at the Ivies

From Harvard to Wall Street: Recruiting at the Ivies From Harvard to Wall Street: Recruiting at the Ivies

Ivy League universities have institutionalized the culture that makes finance jobs so ubiquitous among graduates.

Jan 18, 2012 / StudentNation / Sandra Y.L. Korn

NYU Establishes Occupy Wall Street Course

NYU Establishes Occupy Wall Street Course NYU Establishes Occupy Wall Street Course

New York University professor Lisa Duggan says that the Occupy Wall Street movement has inspired an entire generation to want to learn about what might otherwise seem like a dry su...

Jan 17, 2012 / StudentNation / Georgia Kral

Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important Stories (1/13) Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important Stories (1/13)

Every week, Nation interns try to cut through the echo chamber and choose one good article in their area of interest that they feel should receive more attention.

Jan 13, 2012 / StudentNation / The Nation

Students Take on Private Equity Fund HEI Students Take on Private Equity Fund HEI

The anatomy of a successful student movement.

Jan 12, 2012 / StudentNation / Micah Uetricht

Yale Pushes Gender-Neutral Housing Yale Pushes Gender-Neutral Housing

If the newest Yale College Council effort is successful, juniors will be eligible for gender-neutral housing beginning next fall.

Jan 10, 2012 / StudentNation / Madeline McMahon

Occupy Colleges to Occupy Congress

Occupy Colleges to Occupy Congress Occupy Colleges to Occupy Congress

This is Occupy 2.0 and Occupy Colleges is a part of that mission.

Jan 10, 2012 / StudentNation / Natalia Abrams

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