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...ecessity, getting a union job can dramatically change their long-term prospects in a precarious and sharply unequal economic landscape. Clearly, all students should be able to pursue whatever [...]

...at it’s been so closely aligned with women’s work,” she said. Now, she points out, women are beginning to demand more. But even as adjunct faculty seek higher pay and better [...]

...been transformed into a system in which most students borrow, and at increasingly higher amounts. In less than a generation, our nation’s higher education system has become a [...]

...ts, and scientific studies that suggest fracking causes significant environmental and health problems, major concerns of those who oppose the process of horizontal fracking. After all, Cabot [...]

...” to student debt is currently the only game in town. Over the last few years, states have dramatically reduced funding to universities. In response, institutions have raised tuition [...]

...from pursuing higher education at all. He said he will be promoting federal legislation that would reduce interest rates on student loans and provide federal funding to states so that [...]

...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 [...]

...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 [...]

...structures. But organizers always had other ideas. In the winter of 2014, the Rolling Jubilee purchased a portfolio of private student debt from what was then one of the biggest for-profit [...]

.../WBEZ. Union members of Local 1600, which represents teaching faculty at colleges in Cook County, picket outside Malcolm X College on Chicago’s West [...]

...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 [...]

...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.” [...]

...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 [...]

...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 [...]

...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 [...]