New School, Old Tricks New School, Old Tricks
The New School University is one of Manhattan's most storied progressive institutions. But don't tell that to the people who work there.
Mar 18, 2004 / Eyal Press
Class Warfare Class Warfare
Labor studies programs are under attack by a well-financed right-wing campaign.
Dec 24, 2003 / Feature / David Bacon
No-Brainer No-Brainer
Devising a fair federal policy for higher education would not be hard.
Oct 23, 2003 / Feature / David Kirp
You Protest, You Pay You Protest, You Pay
It started with Congress, which in 1998 voted to deny federal financial aid to students with minor drug convictions like marijuana possession. Now the use of financial aid as a...
Oct 16, 2003 / Jamie Pietras
Educating for Privilege Educating for Privilege
As a law school dean, I was much taken with a statement from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's landmark opinion in the University of Michigan case: "Law schools represent the train...
Sep 25, 2003 / Gene Nichol
Yale Workers Win Yale Workers Win
Late last week, Yale clerical and maintenance workers who had been striking for three weeks won a contract that will transform the standard of living of clerical workers at the u...
Sep 22, 2003 / Feature / Kim Phillips-Fein
The American Prosperity Myth The American Prosperity Myth
The economy's vital signs spell trouble.
Aug 14, 2003 / Feature / Will Hutton
Benjamin Mays Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Elijah Mays--devout Christian minister, uncompromising advocate for justice, career educator and longtime president of Morehouse College in Atlanta--was called the "Sc...
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Roger Wilkins
Axing Higher Ed Axing Higher Ed
One of the many casualties of our national obsession with the war on Iraq is the emerging crisis of America's public colleges and universities.
May 1, 2003 / Stanley Aronowitz
Class Struggle Class Struggle
In a nation that nominally eschews class distinctions as unbefitting our supposed classlessness, whose elected officials decry any protest over government largesse to the rich ...
Apr 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Peter Sacks