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Senate Passes New Bill Targeting College Students Who Criticize Israel

December 6, 2016 Jason Ditz, www.mintpressnews.com , , ,
By Jason Ditz for Mint Press News - In a move intended to dramatically broaden Department of Education probes of colleges and universities who tolerate students that criticize Israel, the Senate today unanimously passed the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, which was passed with little debate or fanfare. Sen. Bob Casey (D – PA) and Tim Scott (R – SC) presented the bill as targeting a growing number of “religiously motivated hate crimes,” warning that the Department of Education needed to take “urgent action” to investigate all anti-semitism at school. The bill intends to do this by instructing the Department of Education to use the State Department’s definition of anti-semitism...

The Most Influential College You’ve Never Heard Of

September 17, 2016 Sammy Feldblum, www.scalawagmagazine.org , ,
By Sammy Feldblum for Scalawag - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill claims the title of oldest public university in the United States, having graduated its first class in 1795. In the centuries since, the state has added sixteen more campuses to the UNC system, including five historically black colleges and universities. The system, especially its flagship school, is the pride of the state: journalist John Gunther called it “a kind of intellectual capital for the whole South” in 1947

The Woman Tracking Rape In College Football When No One Else Will

September 12, 2016 Leila Ettachfini, www.broadly.vice.com ,
By Leila Ettachfini for Broadly - From Steubenville to Vanderbilt, stories of rape culture and football repeatedly made local and national headlines in the last couple of years. Though problems with sexual violence have coincided with football since the sport's inception, today a handful of survivors and journalists are bringing the issue to a national spotlight. Jessica Luther, an investigative journalist, is one of them. For the past three years, Luther has added to the dialogue surrounding rape in football.

To Cut Costs, College Students Are Going Hungry

July 16, 2016 Sara Goldrick-Rab and Katharine Broton, www.theconversation.com ,
By Sara Goldrick-Rab and Katharine Broton for The Conversation - Studies have long shown that a college student’s odds of achieving financial security and a better quality of life improve when he or she earns a degree. But what are some of the obstacles that prevent degree attainment? At the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, we study the challenges that students from low- and moderate-income households face in attaining a college degree.

‘Neutral Is Not Acceptable’:Protests For Colleges To Go Fossil Free

April 28, 2016 Nika Knight, www.commondreams.org , , ,
By Nika Knight for Common Dreams - A series of sit-ins and protests urging universities to divest their endowments from fossil fuels gained new strength this week, as students at the University of Montana, Vassar College, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison launched their own actions to combat climate change. Two nights in a row, on Monday and Tuesday multiple students at Northern Arizona University (NAU) were arrested for taking part in a nonviolent action demanding their school divest from oil and gas companies.
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