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The right’s 60-year war on higher education

James Thornton Harris
Trump's attacks on elite universities echo the right-wing playbook Ronald Reagan created nearly six decades ago

“It exposes a contradiction”: Can colleges rocked by campus protests recapture a spirit of activism?

Chauncey DeVega
Author Alex Vitale on the "deeper truth" about universities as "an important part of America's imperial program"

Universities aren’t doing enough for climate. Here’s what a real sustainability plan would look like

Peter W. Reiners
University leaders should be asking what actual climate action looks like

Jim Jordan issues sweeping information requests to universities researching disinformation

Andrea Bernstein
Jordan alleges colleges aided Biden's “censorship regime by advising on so-called misinformation"

Expert: Video of college student arrest raises questions about use of police on campus

Jarell Skinner-Roy
How do universities function as an extension of the carceral state?

Personal foul: University of California wins a round (against me) in football death cover-up

Irvin Muchnick
More evidence that when elite universities get hooked on football, they start behaving like tobacco companies

Risk aversion is ruining science

Paul M. Sutter
Universities and grant institutions need to do better at rewarding failure to encourage scientific discovery

Universities are failing the next generation of scientists

Paul M. Sutter
In a tight academic job market, graduate schools owe it to students to be transparent about their career prospects

How higher education can win the war against neoliberalism and white supremacy

Henry A. Giroux
Universities have been under attack for decades — because fascists know higher education is a weapon for democracy

“Public” universities aren’t free, conservatives

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Don't worry about your "tax dollars" indoctrinating anybody

Universities are still not held accountable for the student debt mental health crisis

Sophia A. McClennen
A college degree is supposed to open doors to the future, but overwhelming debt can make grads feel trapped instead

The pandemic presents colleges and universities with a no-win situation

Matthew Rozsa
Colleges cannot afford to convert entirely to remote learning, but students are put at risk by going on campus

“We’re being treated as guinea pigs”: Faculty members fear in-person return to universities

Raga Justin
Faculty members call the pressure to return to face-to-face instruction a callous decision that prioritizes money

Virus outbreak hits nearly empty University of Texas campus: What will happen this fall?

Roger Sollenberger
An outbreak at one of America’s flagship state universities could be magnified many times over come September

The U.S. granted free tuition before, and it can do it again

Barbara G. Ellis
A 2019 survey shows 60 percent of Americans want tuition-free public colleges and universities

Graduate students do real work. Let us unionize.

Marissa Knoll
The government claims graduate students at private universities shouldn't be considered employees. That’s a mistake

Community colleges open the door to selective universities

Justin Ortagus, Xiaodan Hu
New research shows a small portion of community college students are able to transfer to selective schools

All public universities get private money, but some get much more than the rest

Kevin McClure
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has more than $3 billion in its endowment

Who “belongs” at elite universities? The raging hypocrisy of higher ed gatekeeping

Rachel Leah
What the elite college admissions scam reveals about race, privilege and the fight against affirmative action

College admission scandal grew out of a system that was ripe for corruption

Rick Eckstein
Dozens of people stand accused of having bought their children’s way into elite colleges and universities.

Don Trump Jr. mocks Hollywood cheating scam, invites renewed scrutiny of his own college admission

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump has a history of pledging millions to elite universities just as his children prepare for college

Hospitals check to see if patients are donor-worthy — not their organs, but pockets

Phil Galewitz
Wealth screenings have been used for decades for fundraising by universities and other nonprofits

What makes the ideal university? Six values that power higher education at its best

Virginia Valian, Abigail Stewart
Most universities and colleges achieve 4 of these 6. The final two are often where institutions come up short

Why Russian spies really like American universities

Daniel Golden
Maria Butina may be only the latest in a long line of Russian agents to go undercover on U.S. campuses
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