Higher Education Academic Freedom At Risk After Decades of Attacks and Underfunding from Right Wingdemocracynow.org This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. As higher education faces an …
Long-form Journalism They Had It ComingThe Atlantic - Caitlin FlanaganThe parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs. Updated at 5:23 p.m. ET on April 9,
Higher Education Higher Education Act: Trump’s vision for student loansVox - Ella NilsenThe Trump administration is also proposing forgiving all undergraduate student loans after 15 years. Congress is already signaling that its big legislative priority for the year is reauthorizing the Higher
Mental Health The Real Problem With Trigger WarningsThe Atlantic - Olga KhazanAlerts about classroom reading have been accused of weakening America's college students. But they might not do anything at all. In 2016, Onni Gust, a historian at the University of Nottingham, wrote The
Science I work with kids. Here’s why they’re consumed with anxiety.Vox - John Thornton Jr.It’s not social media. While on a youth retreat with my church a few months ago, I asked about 10 kids, ages 13 to 18, to take a few minutes and write down three words to describe what their lives felt
Airsoft Indiana Teachers Say They Were Shot “Execution Style” with Pellet Guns in Active Shooter Trainingslate.com - Molly Olmstead Members of the Indiana State Teachers Association testified Wednesday before a state education committee that elementary school teachers had been …
Education Elite Colleges Constantly Tell Low-Income Students That They Do Not BelongThe Atlantic - Clint SmithUnwritten rules underlie all of elite-university life—and students who don’t come from a wealthy background have a hard time navigating them. Last Tuesday, the Justice Department charged 50 people with
Operation Varsity Blues Just Got WeirderRolling Stone - EJ Dickson Well, that was fast: two Stanford University students are filing a class-action lawsuit against Yale, the University of Southern California, UCLA, …
Hey, Lori Loughlin: This Is How to Buy Your Way in to USC — and Get Away With Ithollywoodreporter.com - Gary Baum Steven A. Cohen, the hedge fund manager who inspired “Billions,” showed how it’s done when he spent $5 million in 2014, apparently to help secure his …
U.S. Politics Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman among 50 charged in FBI college admissions fraud caseVox - Jane CoastonWhy Full House’s Aunt Becky and a host of other wealthy Californians are under FBI investigation. Fifty people, including Full House actress Lori Loughlin and actress Felicity Huffman, are facing federal
Education Why the College-Admissions Scandal Is So AbsurdThe Atlantic - Alia WongFor the parents charged in a new FBI investigation, crime was a cheaper and simpler way to get their kids into elite schools than the typical advantages wealthy applicants receive. A coast-to-coast FBI
The high cost of college textbooks, explainedVox - Gaby Del VallePublishers say digital options make textbooks cheaper. Affordability advocates say it increases their stranglehold on the market. Hannah, a senior at a private university in New York City, can’t think
Class Dismissedlongreads.com - Alison Stine Alison Stine | Longreads | February 2019 | 9 minutes (2,250 words) This essay was supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a journalism …
World's Largest Retailer Seeks Corporate Welfare in the Age of AutomationGizmodo - Brian Merchant Walmart has published a wide-ranging report on how the company predicts automation will unfold across the nation. Based on data supplied by the …
Is Email Making Professors Stupid? - The Chronicle of Higher Educationchronicle.com By CAL NEWPORT Donald Knuth is one of the world’s most famous living computer scientists. He’s known for his pioneering efforts to bring rigorous …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo List: News, Bad and Good, from the Dean of Arts and Sciencesmcsweeneys.net - Jonathan Marks We have no money for copies. But our Live, Love, Learn program now includes two Undergraduate Scribe Fellows.We have no money for raises, but we’ve …
L.A.’s Teachers Got What They Wanted—For Their StudentsThe Atlantic - Alia WongThe strike showcased unions' strategy of advocating not just for their members but also for better resources for schools. Teachers across Los Angeles fought hard and, after just over a week of striking,
Who Wants to Be a College President?The Atlantic - Adam HarrisProbably not many qualified candidates. Carol Folt had to make a decision, and none of the options was great. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chancellor was caught between a conservative
Millions of College Students Are Going HungryThe Atlantic - Adam HarrisA new government report highlights just how pervasive the problem is. As the costs of college have climbed, some students have gone hungry. When they’ve voiced frustration, they’ve often been ridiculed:
Play buttonA Texas Elementary School Speech Pathologist Refused to Sign a Pro-Israel Oath, Now Mandatory in Many States — so She LostThe Intercept - Glenn Greenwald A children’s speech pathologist who has worked for the last nine years with developmentally disabled, autistic, and speech-impaired elementary school …
The Liberal Arts May Not Survive the 21st CenturyThe Atlantic - Adam HarrisWisconsin built a public higher-education system that was admired around the world. But it may not withstand a tech-hungry economy. For many years, Wisconsin had one of the finest public-university systems
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo A Poem About Your University’s New and Totally Not Time-Wasting Review Process for Tenure and Promotionmcsweeneys.net - Susan Harlan Dear Faculty,Because we do not trust you To do your job— Or even to get out of bed In the morning And make yourself a bowl Of Cheerios — We have instituted …
Silent Sam SurvivesThe Atlantic - Adam HarrisThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has announced its recommendation that the school build a new, $5.3 million building to house the Confederate monument. When Silent Sam, the statue of a soldier
The Students Suing for a Constitutional Right to EducationThe Atlantic - Alia WongA new federal complaint with a unique argument accuses the state of Rhode Island of failing to provide students with the skills they need to participate effectively in a democracy. Nearly all of the world’s
Graduate School Can Have Terrible Effects on People's Mental HealthThe Atlantic - Alia WongPh.D. candidates suffer from anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation at astonishingly high rates. “I was always gung ho about going to graduate school for some reason,” reflects Everet Rummel, a data
The University of Nike: Joshua Hunt on the corporate takeover of higher educationVox - Sean IllingA new book explores how corporations are privatizing public universities. In 2014, the New York Times sent an investigative reporter to the University of Oregon to cover a disturbing sexual assault case
America Is Divided by EducationThe Atlantic - Adam HarrisThe gulf between the party identification of white voters with college degrees and those without is growing rapidly. Trump is widening it. One of the most striking patterns in yesterday’s election was
Foxconn’s $100M deal with the University of Wisconsin has students worriedThe Verge - Josh DziezaThe company will jointly fund new faculty and share intellectual property, but exactly how is unclear At the University of Wisconsin-Madison in late August, chancellor Rebecca Blank and Foxconn chairman
As Humanities Majors Decline, Colleges Try to Hype Up Their ProgramsThe Atlantic - Jeffrey SelingoThe Great Recession scared a lot of students away from the humanities. Now administrators are trying to bring them back. Even as college students on the whole began to shun humanities majors over the decade
