When Your Home Gets Hit: In Response to the Parkland Shootings When Your Home Gets Hit: In Response to the Parkland Shootings
I not only have a heavy heart, but I have an infuriated soul. I am mad. Parkland has gotten mad. Florida has gotten mad. America needs to get mad.
Feb 23, 2018 / StudentNation / Zoe Zbar
Disaster Capitalism Hits Higher Education in Wisconsin Disaster Capitalism Hits Higher Education in Wisconsin
The president of the University of Wisconsin System is trying to reconcile a well-funded assault on public institutions with the state’s deep blue sea of support for accessible edu...
Feb 23, 2018 / StudentNation / Rachel Ida Buff
We Need to Address the Mental-Health-Care Imbalance for Students of Color We Need to Address the Mental-Health-Care Imbalance for Students of Color
Campus mental-health care is already inaccessible and often not attuned to students’ needs—add to that systemic oppression, and feeling better seems impossible.
Feb 21, 2018 / StudentNation / Gabriela Thorne
These Students Used Twitter to Make a Racist Group Chat Public These Students Used Twitter to Make a Racist Group Chat Public
As white-supremacist propaganda appears more frequently on college campuses, do students have a right to know who thinks it’s a joke?
Feb 15, 2018 / StudentNation / Jordana Rosenfeld
Climate Change Isn’t Just About the Planet Climate Change Isn’t Just About the Planet
It’s about justice: racial, social, socioeconomic, reproductive, and environmental. It’s about immigration reform, LGBTQIA+ rights, and religious freedom.
Feb 7, 2018 / StudentNation / Leehi Yona
These Students Learn About State Violence at the Busiest Border Patrol Sector in the Country These Students Learn About State Violence at the Busiest Border Patrol Sector in the Country
This program shows students how to understand and oppose the violence happening at the US/Mexico border.
Feb 1, 2018 / StudentNation / Gabriel Matthew Schivone
In the Legal System, Talking White Is a Precursor to Justice—and That’s Wrong In the Legal System, Talking White Is a Precursor to Justice—and That’s Wrong
If the legal system keeps treating AAE as a lesser form of English, it can never claim to view black people with the same legitimacy as white people.
Jan 29, 2018 / StudentNation / Jordana Rosenfeld
For Students of Color, Ivy League Schools Have a Long Way to Go For Students of Color, Ivy League Schools Have a Long Way to Go
You may have entered an elite institution, but, as a student of color, you hardly feel welcome.
Jan 25, 2018 / StudentNation / Gabriela Thorne
These Students Are Teaming Up to Pay Dollar Bails for Detained New Yorkers These Students Are Teaming Up to Pay Dollar Bails for Detained New Yorkers
The Dollar Bail Brigade has freed 78 people and grown into a network of more than 600 volunteers.
Jan 22, 2018 / StudentNation / Mary Akdemir
What Moira Donegan Did for Young Women Writers What Moira Donegan Did for Young Women Writers
Young women writers who want to make their voices heard will follow her example in the years to come.
Jan 12, 2018 / StudentNation / Jordana Rosenfeld