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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Newark Students Resisting Neoliberal Reforms In Their City
...o speak to the students. The next day, Anderson released an official statement, where she said while she is “supportive of students expressing their [...]
Occupation Of University Of Amsterdam Defies Market Education
...ol of Economics, returned home to an occupation at his own university. Students occupied the central meeting room of the administration at LSE, the Vera Anstey Suite. They are [...]
US Students Hold Nationwide Protests Against High Tuition Fees
...on at four-year public universities has risen by 42 percent, and student debt totals nearly US$1.3 trillion, according to the College Board. Students, [...]
Parents And School Districts Sue Over Pennsylvania School Funding
...public education,” as mandated by the state constitution based on the legislature’s own standards. Petitioners are asking for a court order that will force the legislature to [...]
Quebec’s Strike Wave Rolls Toward A Showdown
...ng to stop $70 million in cuts to higher education and are instead demanding that the government tax the rich, invest in the public sector and guarantee good-paying jobs that provide services [...]
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] [...]
Privilege And The Working Class
...e solidarity necessary for significant victories and social change. The politics of privilege have come full circle. The privilege ideology circuit began among Stalinists, who brought [...]
Why Students Are Marching For Better Wages
...everyone, not only students who are current or future low-wage workers. Dhruv Pathak, a junior at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro who earned minimum wage at a [...]
Race Dramatically Skews Discipline, Even In Elementary School
...Nelsen. “If someone’s being disrespectful in class, we contact the parents — no matter who the students are. It’s not racial, it’s not gender. [...]