Newsletter: Youth Recognize Their Power & Build It
...le have learned that not only are they not “a loan” they are not “alone.” And, they have seen how other fronts of struggle have built power by standing together and [...]
The Hidden Force In For-Profit Closures
...dictate terms, impose additional restrictions on management.” Many of those terms try to keep the company in line with existing Education Department rules. In fact, nearly all [...]
From Tallahassee to Mexico City, Youth Uprising Continues
...Casey Gollan and Anna Vila 9. In San Francisco, City College Holds On While California undertakes sweeping reforms that will limit the accessibility of community [...]
College Campus Racism Is Not Just Sigma Alpha Epsilon
...nder the rug. It doesn’t get in the news, it doesn’t get its own hashtag. They just have to deal with it.” This is the tweet that got the conversation started: Soon, others [...]
Liberate 41 Million Americans From Student Loan Debt
...ornia was tuition-free until the 1960s, for example, and free higher education was available in New York City for well over a century. Germany has just joined the growing list of nations that [...]
The Growing Movement For Social And Racial Justice
...skyrocketing student debt. Cumulative student loan debt has now reached1.2 trillion. The average student loan debt held by 25-year-olds has jumped 91% in the past decade alone. This burden is [...]
Knox College Suspends Player After Mike Brown Action
...ove so they could start the game. Refusing to compromise the integrity of the movement, Ariyana stood after the full 4.5 minutes with her fist proudly in their air. She has been suspended from [...]
Criticism Of Israel Not Allowed On College Campuses
...for the investigation and interrogation of teachers suspected of engaging in anti-Semitic behavior. The Amcha Initiative says its mission is “to investigate, document, educate about, and [...]
A Generation’s Call: Student Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement
...ssons for the long haul. Kate Aronoff is a student organizer with the Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network and Swarthmore Mountain Justice, a board member of the Responsible Endowments [...]
CUNY Wars: Petraeus, ROTC, Student Center Closing & Police Conflict
...nary hearings for more than four decades. The first student McGuire defended was himself. In 1969, as a leader of a student strike that helped oust the original ROTC program from the school [...]
Blaming the Victims: Media Bias Against Struggling Millennials
...f a middle-class existence. But, this too, is no longer the case. The cost of college, which has outpaced inflation virtually every year for three decades, has made it [...]
Hoax Asks Why Free College Tuition Not Being Discussed
...sthat the spectacle was aimed at “countering the narrative” of the conference. “The narrative is that they are coming up with innovative solutions and payment plans, allowing [...]
Four Arrested In Pipeline Protest
...protest in New Haven — praised Sharp’s work Tuesday. She called it “a first-class operation in dealing with an act of civil disobedience” and said she “found his [...]
4 Ways Colleges Block Your Activism (And How You Can Push Back)
...in in a Black Lives Matter march. Educate someone when they say something problematic, whether it be in class or on a sidewalk. Do what you can to not lose your way and stay an activist while [...]
Colleges Face Student Protests Over Fossil Fuel Investments
...to partially or fully shed fossil fuel investments, according to 350.org. But student activists now have set their sights on one reason why they say more colleges [...]