This Country Just Abolished College Tuition Fees
...er year. High tuition fees in the U.S. have caused student loan debt, which stands at $1.2 trillion, to spiral out of control. It is now the second-highest form of consumer debt in the [...]
Students Occupy Swarthmore College For Fossil Fuel Divestment
...ali Cadambi Wave of sit-ins by divestment campaigners starts at US college founded by Quakers and whose alumni include UN climate change chief Christiana Figueres Student [...]
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 [...]
City Colleges Of Chicago Workers Hit Picket Lines To Force Contract Talks
.../WBEZ. Union members of Local 1600, which represents teaching faculty at colleges in Cook County, picket outside Malcolm X College on Chicago’s West [...]
U.S. Women Disproportionately Burdened By College Debt
...at lead to upward economic mobility. “It’s a systemic problem,” Kevin Miller, a researcher at the American Association of University Women, told the Boston Globe. According [...]
‘Neutral Is Not Acceptable’:Protests For Colleges To Go Fossil Free
...and power, and we need to leverage that power to do right in the world, and moving forward is no longer something we can continue to talk about, it’s something that we have to do.” [...]
#BlackLivesMatter Drastically Impacted College Admins And Campus Policy
...hat “nearly half of four-year presidents and 13 percent of two-year presidents indicated students on their campus have organized around concerns about racial diversity.” It also [...]
For-Profit College Scam These Students Are Still Paying For
...utright forgiveness. The Corinthian students are seen as a small group in extraordinary circumstances who must prove they were defrauded, but the rulemaking committee’s decisions, going [...]
Lewis & Clark Students Sit-In Over Campus Racial Violence
...a sit-in outside college president Barry Glassner’s office on November 24, 2015. Their protest aims to increase safety and inclusion on campus. Kristyna [...]
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 [...]
Campus Race Protests About Systemic Racism That’s Never Gone Away
...ers, part of a protest against disciplining black students who had advocated for an Africana Studies and Research Center. Forty-six years later, students all over the country continue to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]