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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.
My University “Rebranded.” Instead, It Should’ve Actually Confronted Injustice.
UMass Boston's rebranding may serve to establish the campus as a beacon of bait-and-switch austerity politics.
Biden Administration Announces Plan That Would Undo DeVos’s Gutting of Title IX
The proposed guidelines would enhance protections for sexual assault survivors and add them for LGBTQ+ students.
Cancellation of Corinthian Loans Is Only the Beginning of Student Debt Abolition
Ultimately, we need to abolish all student debt, for everyone, and publicly fund college.
Surveillance Tech Is Wrongly Accusing Disabled Students of Cheating on Tests
Gaze-tracking exam proctoring programs are framing students with ADHD who look away from their screens as “cheaters.”
Republicans Are Channeling Tax Dollars to Right-Wing “Classical Education”
Lawmakers are working to facilitate the spread of conservative ideologies at colleges around the country.
Graduate Student Workers Across the Country Are Helping Each Other Unionize
The interconnectedness of the movement across far-flung campuses is fueling a cascade of wins in unionization campaigns.
Robin Kelley: White Indifference Is Normalizing Spectacular Acts of Violence
Historian Robin D.G. Kelley discusses navigating the anti-Black racism of universities.