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Higher Education
As Universities Submit to Neoliberalism and Fascism, Workers Must Fight Back
Faculty unions need to scale up organizing among academic workers to counter far right attacks on higher education.
College Textbooks Cover the Climate Crisis Less Than They Did Before 2010
Coverage of climate solutions dropped to 3 percent of the total content on climate change from 15 percent in the 90s.
Biden Can Still Cancel Student Debt — Not Just Up to $20,000, But All of It
I won’t be paying my student loan debt back and neither should you -- here’s why.
48,000 UC Academic Workers Walk Off Job in 2022’s Biggest Strike So Far
This is the largest academic strike in higher education ever waged in the U.S., according to the union.
The Racism of the Supreme Court’s Supermajority Was on Full Display This Week
The six right-wingers appear poised to gut affirmative action in higher education.
Advocates: Supreme Court Should Nix Legacy Admissions, Not Affirmative Action
“Affirmative Action for the rich is legacy admissions,” said Rep. Jamaal Bowman. “Yet SCOTUS is focusing on race.”
Let’s Build Leftist Academic Solidarities to Rebuff Far Right Attacks
To defend space for justice-based scholarship, we must challenge the individualizing logic of the corporate university.
Two Powerful Unions Have Come Together to Fight the Right’s Attack on Higher Ed
The two unions representing teachers and university professors are fighting for academic freedom and shared governance.
Universities Are Plundering Cities. How Can This Relationship Change?
Scholar Davarian L. Baldwin discusses how “UniverCities” occupy -- and reshape -- local spaces and local economies.
75% of New Jobs Require a Degree While Only 40% of Potential Applicants Have One
It’s time for a broader conversation about the purposes of higher education and how to make it accessible to all.