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]

I’m an 18-Year-Old Gun-Reform Activist and School-Shooting Survivor—Here’s Why I Still Have Hope

I’m an 18-Year-Old Gun-Reform Activist and School-Shooting Survivor—Here’s Why I Still Have Hope I’m an 18-Year-Old Gun-Reform Activist and School-Shooting Survivor—Here’s Why I Still Have Hope

We’re not doing this because we want to. We’re doing it because we have to.

Feb 5, 2019 / Feature / Mollie Davis

Middlebury Divestment

We Changed Our College’s Mind About Fossil Fuels—You Can, Too We Changed Our College’s Mind About Fossil Fuels—You Can, Too

After Middlebury College rejected its students demands to divest from fossil fuels in 2013, students kept fighting—and now, the school has unanimously voted to divest.

Jan 30, 2019 / StudentNation / Gabe Desmond and Alec Fleischer

Campus Segregation

State Universities Are Being Resegregated State Universities Are Being Resegregated

Nearly half of all elite public universities are enrolling a lower percentage of black students than they were in the mid-1990s.

Jan 30, 2019 / StudentNation / Mark Huelsman

These Hungarian Students Are Fighting for Their Country’s Democracy

These Hungarian Students Are Fighting for Their Country’s Democracy These Hungarian Students Are Fighting for Their Country’s Democracy

Though Orbán sought to stamp out dissent and free thought in Hungary, he only made us call out to one another in solidarity.

Jan 16, 2019 / StudentNation / Rosa Schwartzburg

Stand With Los Angeles Teachers on Strike

Stand With Los Angeles Teachers on Strike Stand With Los Angeles Teachers on Strike

Plus ways to support furloughed federal workers and oppose Betsy Devos’s destructive sexual-assault policies.

Jan 15, 2019 / StudentNation / NationAction

Santa Fe College

Who’s Leading the Next Unionization Charge? That’s Right: Florida. Who’s Leading the Next Unionization Charge? That’s Right: Florida.

The Service Employees International Union is poised to represent half of all adjunct faculty in the “right to work” state’s public-school system.

Dec 20, 2018 / StudentNation / Jake Bittle

Silent Sam protest

For UNC’s Teaching Assistants, the Silent Sam Protests Are Far From Over For UNC’s Teaching Assistants, the Silent Sam Protests Are Far From Over

TAs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill may have released the withheld grades, but they say they won’t be placated by any action short of racial justice.

Dec 18, 2018 / StudentNation / Nicole Castro

Student debt protest

Who Is Most Affected By Student Debt? Women. Who Is Most Affected By Student Debt? Women.

A new report shows that student debt doesn’t just recreate class divides—it reflects the country’s gender gap.

Dec 11, 2018 / StudentNation / Sabrina Cereceres

College Rally Against Campus Rape

Don’t Defend Title IX. Replace It. Don’t Defend Title IX. Replace It.

Anti-discrimination and affirmative-action rules don’t help the Americans who need them the most. 

Dec 10, 2018 / StudentNation / Nawal Arjini

Brooklyn College

After 2 Brooklyn College Professors Spouted Hate, Students Want Restitution After 2 Brooklyn College Professors Spouted Hate, Students Want Restitution

Students pointed to a wider campus culture unfriendly to Latin American students and survivors of sexual assault.

Dec 6, 2018 / StudentNation / Skanda Kadirgamar

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