Goodbye, Horatio Alger Goodbye, Horatio Alger
Is education widening the class divide?
Jan 21, 2007 / Feature / Jeff Madrick
The High Cost of the Home Team The High Cost of the Home Team
Big-money athletics cannot help but sabotage what our colleges and universities are for: instruction and research.
Jan 18, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
College Presidents High on the Hog College Presidents High on the Hog
College presidents are living in baronial splendor, some with salaries, benefits and perks of $1 million or more. And you wonder why the cost of tuition is so high?
Oct 31, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Trump U. Trump U.
Why go to a real college? Enroll in Donald Trump's virtual university and you'll learn all you need to know for $29 or your money back!
Jul 21, 2006 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
Burning Cole Burning Cole
Politics trumped academic integrity when a neocon network torpedoed the appointment of Mideast scholar and blogger Juan Cole to a faculty position at Yale.
Jun 16, 2006 / Philip Weiss
Campus Breakthrough on Sweatshop Labor Campus Breakthrough on Sweatshop Labor
The University of California has thrown its weight behind an antisweatshop initiative on campus logowear, proof that conscientious consumers can humanize the forces of global capit...
Jun 1, 2006 / Feature / Peter Dreier and Richard Appelbaum
Leap into the Fray Leap into the Fray
The new generation of academics and scholars is challenged to join, elevate and improve the national conversation, and persuade the public to come back to politics.
May 30, 2006 / Feature / Victor Navasky
Drug War Flunks Out Drug War Flunks Out
Students for Sensible Drug Policy and the ACLU are challenging a draconian Education Department rule that blocks student drug offenders from receiving federal aid.
May 25, 2006 / Hasdai Westbrook
‘Why Can’t We?’ ‘Why Can’t We?’
Confronting the forces of war, genocide and lawlessness begins with the belief that individual citizens have the power--and the responsibility--to focus our government's mind, chan...
May 23, 2006 / Feature / Samantha Power
Divestment and Sudan Divestment and Sudan
The growing campus campaign to force universities to divest from corporations doing business with the Sudanese government is having real impact.
Apr 20, 2006 / Sam Graham-Felsen