Higher Education

More robust estate taxes could cover the cost of making public colleges and universities tuition-free.

The student occupation at the University of Amsterdam pits democracy against the logic of markets.

Academics and social movements must reclaim the university and transform it into a public space.

The university has become a social institution that not only fails to address inequality, but contributes to a growing class division.

Performance or outcomes-based budgeting will not advance the goals of 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 …