Higher Education

Inmate Students San Quentin

Building the Prison-to-College Pipeline Building the Prison-to-College Pipeline

Securing a college education for the formerly incarcerated can break intergenerational cycles of poverty and crime.

Jun 25, 2021 / David Kirp

Universities Are Slashing Faculties and Blaming Covid

Universities Are Slashing Faculties and Blaming Covid Universities Are Slashing Faculties and Blaming Covid

Citing the pandemic, administrators are pushing cuts—despite receiving millions in federal relief funds.

Jun 22, 2021 / StudentNation / Arvind Dilawar

Laptop remote learning

Computer Screens and Pieces of Paper Computer Screens and Pieces of Paper

After a year of remote learning, many college students are reevaluating the value of higher education.

Jun 18, 2021 / StudentNation / Teresa Xie

Andy Biggs press conf

The Miseducation of White Children The Miseducation of White Children

The attacks on critical race theory are just another attempt to prevent this country from reckoning with its racist past and present—by keeping white kids ignorant.

Jun 3, 2021 / Elie Mystal

Race Riots, Tulsa, Oklahoma,

A Historian of the Tulsa Race Massacre Confronts the Myth of Objectivity A Historian of the Tulsa Race Massacre Confronts the Myth of Objectivity

Karlos Hill argues that a scholar’s power lies in “being a catalyst for change.”

May 28, 2021 / David M. Perry

Palestine-solidarity-protest

I Will Not Be Silenced Because I Demand Justice for Palestine I Will Not Be Silenced Because I Demand Justice for Palestine

Like many Palestinians, I have been attacked and punished for criticizing Israel. Now I’m filing a civil rights complaint against my university for encouraging those attacks.

May 20, 2021 / Ahmad Omar Daraldik

President Richard Nixon

The UC System’s Policing Expansion Belies Its Stated Commitment to Racial Justice The UC System’s Policing Expansion Belies Its Stated Commitment to Racial Justice

The license for the rise of the law-and-order campus dates back to President Richard Nixon and The Report of the President’s Commission on Campus Unrest.

May 10, 2021 / Robin D.G. Kelley, Paola Bacchetta, and David Theo Goldberg

Climate Justice Is About More Than Just Fossil Fuels

Climate Justice Is About More Than Just Fossil Fuels Climate Justice Is About More Than Just Fossil Fuels

A true commitment to climate justice is much broader: It necessarily entails building local resilience to climate impacts.

May 7, 2021 / StudentNation / Matthew Sehrsweeney

students protest abolish tuition

Student Debt Is Devastating American Families—Here’s How Student Debt Is Devastating American Families—Here’s How

Advocates collected thousands of responses from borrowers across the country, and their stories show just how debilitating student debt has become.

May 5, 2021 / StudentNation / Cody Hounanian and Whitney Barkley-Denney

The Rise of Adjunct Lit

The Rise of Adjunct Lit The Rise of Adjunct Lit

How a bleak future in and out of the academy has produced a new kind of campus novel.

May 3, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Maggie Doherty

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