Leadership 101 Leadership 101
The lesson in Harvard president Lawrence Summers's sudden demise is that his brand of neoliberalism works better on blackboards than in the real world.
Feb 23, 2006 / The Editors
Girls Against Boys? Girls Against Boys?
Women now outnumber men at colleges and universities, but higher education has not become the fluffy pink playpen of feminism that some conservatives envision.
Jan 12, 2006 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Bitter Winter at NYU Bitter Winter at NYU
Striking graduate teaching assistants and NYU administrators are hunkered down for a protracted fight, as President John Sexton has threatened strikers with loss of their teaching ...
Dec 21, 2005 / Scott Sherman
The Increasingly Private Public School The Increasingly Private Public School
The privatization of the nation's greatest, once-public colleges and universities is well under way. The loss of low-cost higher education is a quiet tragedy, one that will severel...
Oct 25, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
Brooklyn Prof in Godless Shocker Brooklyn Prof in Godless Shocker
People who believe in academic freedom should denounce CUNY's treatment of an atheist professor.
Jun 9, 2005 / Column / Katha Pollitt
After the Boycott… What? After the Boycott… What?
The Israeli university boycott and its subsequent reversal could have been avoided.
Jun 2, 2005 / D.D. Guttenplan
Israeli Boycott: A Mistake Israeli Boycott: A Mistake
The British Association of University Teachers should overturn its boycott of Israeli academics.
May 19, 2005 / Jon Wiener
Keep Talking Keep Talking
The origins of the Princeton filibuster protest.
May 4, 2005 / Asheesh Kapur Siddique
Harvard Divests Harvard Divests
Students succeed in making the university pull out of a Chinese oil company funding slaughter in Sudan.
Apr 28, 2005 / Feature / Sam Graham-Felsen
Columbia Unbecoming Columbia Unbecoming
An internal memo urges retaliation against graduate students who want a union.
Apr 25, 2005 / Feature / Jennifer Washburn