Faces Of Student Debt Raise Alarm
...cation. Moreover, he said, rising debt levels and college costs discourage many capable young people from pursuing higher education at all. He said he will be promoting federal legislation [...]
Medical Student National Actions For ‘Medicare For All’
...Darius Fullmer [darius.fullmer@gmail.com] WISCONSIN University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health: Sarah Zoutendam [zoutendam@wisc.edu] and Zeeshan Yacoob [yacoob@wisc.edu] [...]
Learning from Successful Acts of Resistance Around the World
...Our protest will be recorded in the history books, for all generations to see. So, general, before you swipe me away, perhaps you too should do a little thinking.” Back to top. 10. [...]
Towson University Students March For Unity
...members aren’t even students. It’s a sign of unity on Towson University’s campus as students rallied to show support for diversity after the [...]
Teach For America Is A Dangerous Scam
...tivists. Hagopian is of the latter camp. He’s better known for helping to organize the successful “Scrap the MAP” campaign at Garfield High School, in Seattle, where he [...]
Obama Education Plan ‘Not Serious,’ ‘Delusional’
...w to Decrease Cost and Increase Quality at American Universities, said he’d traveled to the White House several times to meet with policymakers, and wasn’t surprised by the plan. [...]
Brown University Tells Student Activists, We Can’t Live Without Coal
...t of divestiture would not elucidate the complex scientific and policy issues surrounding coal and climate change and, for this reason, it would run counter to Brown’s mission of [...]
5 Things To Know About College Student Debt
...e is $29,400. The average annual income for a working adult between 25 and 34 is $37,524. That figure is the highest ever. And it has increased 20% over four years. Nearly 70% of [...]
Student Protests Result In Withdrawal Of “Success Fee”
...id so other campus groups can recognize that, ‘Hey, the students and faculty at SSU were able to stop this (Academic Success Fee).” Phillips is “very pleased [...]
Barnard Censors Students For Justice In Palestine
...no warning that they planned to remove our banner. Columbia SJP is a student group at this university—no different from any other group—and has equal access to the [...]
Free Higher Education Is a Human Right
...rica’s colleges and universities are quietly shifting the burden of their big tuition increases onto low-income students, while many higher-income families are seeing [...]
The Myth Of Working Your Way Through College
...round 1993. That’s when a single MSU credit hour became worth more than 20 hours of wages. Imagine a 15-week semester with a course load of 12 credit hours. If each credit hour required [...]
Future Doctors Organize For Patients, Not Profits
...keynote, which was characterized by one student evaluator as “phenomenal, inspiring!” First organized in 2012 by PNHP medical student members, the [...]
More Universities Turn To Ranked Choice Voting
...versities did improve their elections, the Associated Students decided ranked choice voting might be the answer, said Poppers. Last week’s elections were the first test [...]
Government Already Spending What Is Needed For Free Tuition
...ion Opportunity Network website and newsletter, calling for President Obama and Congress to “create a plan to make public college tuition-free.” Here’s why that makes sense. [...]