Higher Education

The crisis of higher education is about more than a crisis of funding and an assault on dissent; it is also about a crisis of memory, agency and politics.

Over the last three decades, the price of a year of college has increased by more than 1,200 percent.

Documents show group sought control over hiring at Florida State.

At a time when anti-intellectualism runs rampant throughout popular culture and politics, it seems imperative to remember how important critical thought can be as a resource and critical tool.

Academia allegedly encourages meritocracy and the creation of objective knowledge - values that should make race and gender identities irrelevant. But women of color too frequently find themselves "presumed …

Undocumented college students benefit temporarily from a new program protecting them from deportation, but a more permanent solution is needed.

The corporatization of higher education has negatively impacted the university as an institution committed to critical inquiry, the empowerment of citizens and democratic discourse.

The commanding institutions of society are now in the hands of powerful corporate interests whose strangulating control over politics renders democracy corrupt and dysfunctional, says Henry A. Giroux.

Noam Chomsky reminds us that caring about other people is a dangerous idea in America today, and he trades in ideas that defy scholastic disciplines and intellectual boundaries, says …

Certain sectors of the Ecuadoran government would like to become less dependent on natural resource extraction and instead create a digital- and knowledge-based economy.