Sep 17 2019
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Computer scientist Richard Stallman resigned from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday following his…
Sep 3 2019
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Last year saw the highest number of strikes in America in more than 30 years. The strikes by public teachers got the…
Jul 29 2019
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As if one major college-related scandal weren’t enough in a year, there comes this news: wealthy parents in Illinois…
Jul 3 2019
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At America’s research universities, “the number of black tenured faculty members grew by only one-tenth of a percent from 2013 to 2017, to comprise 4 percent of the total tenured faculty. The number of Hispanic and Latino tenured faculty members also grew by less than 1 percent... [to] 4.6 percent of tenured faculty.”… Read more
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Jun 19 2019
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“Two half-time adjunct jobs do not make a full-time income. Far from it,” Ximena Barrientos says. “I’m lucky that I…
Mar 28 2019
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More than 2,800 adjunct professors at Miami-Dade College have voted to unionize, making them the largest adjunct union in the country. Florida baby!
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Mar 15 2019
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Earlier this week, in the aftermath of the college admissions scandal, I wrote about my own experience with college…
Mar 13 2019
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The college admissions scandal that rocked the country on Tuesday is one of the weirdest, most depraved pieces of…
Mar 12 2019
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Many stories about the rich do a good job of demonstrating how undeserved their wealth is, but we have a real…
Mar 6 2019
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Journalism—the act of finding stuff out, then writing it down—is not hard to learn how to do. What is hard is…
Jan 16 2019
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We all know that millennials are killing the housing market, diamonds, and pretty much everything else good and holy.…
Nov 19 2018
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Mike Bloomberg (net worth: $52 billion) modestly announced in a New York Times op-ed yesterday that he is donating…
Oct 11 2018
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America’s higher education system has always been racist. Not only were many of our top institutions founded by…
Jun 1 2018
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On Thursday, the college publication Stanford Daily released emails, written this past winter, in which Niall…
May 13 2018
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Like almost everyone else in the Trump administration, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has been caught once again…
May 7 2018
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A woman called the police on two Native American teens who were trying to go on a college tour at Colorado State…
Apr 25 2018
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The writer and English professor who found herself in a whirlwind of controversy when she tweeted that recently…
Apr 20 2018
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When a bunch of white dudes get caught being racist, homophobic, or anti-Semitic (or in this case, all of the above)…
Apr 19 2018
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Today in What Horrible Racist and/or Homophobic and/or Anti-Semitic Thing Has a College Frat Done Now Goddammit?:…
Apr 19 2018
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Unwilling to overlook years of grotesquely offensive statements and maternal coddling of a war criminal, one…