Higher Education

A Commencement Address For Most Indebted Class Ever

May 19, 2016 Chuck Collins, www.otherwords.org Educate! Higher Education, Student Debt

By Chuck Collins for Other Worlds - Congratulations, college graduates! As you enter the next phase of life, you and your parents should be proud of your achievements. But, I’m sorry to say, they’ve come at a price: The system is trying to squeeze you harder than any previous generation. Many baby boomers, perhaps including your parents, benefited from a time when higher education was seen as a shared social responsibility. Between 1945 and 1975, tens of millions of them graduated from college with little or no debt.

#DearDeanKelly Protest Occupies Seattle University Office

May 13, 2016 Dyer Oxley, www.mynorthwest.com Resist! Higher Education, Protests

By Dyer Oxley for My Northwest - Seattle University students have occupied the front lobby of a college to demand the resignation of its dean, citing oppression, traumatization, and an unsatisfactory humanities program. So far, they have spent Wednesday evening and Thursday occupying the office. The students, the MRC Coalition, have set up camp in the Matteo Ricci College lobby. They told The Stranger that the issues have been mounting for a long time. Using the hashtag #DearDeanKelly, they have promoted their cause across social media and are calling for the college’s dean, Jodi Kelly, to resigns.

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

April 28, 2016 Nika Knight, www.commondreams.org Resist! Divestment, Fossil Fuels, Higher Education, Student Protests

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.

Colleges Face Student Protests Over Fossil Fuel Investments

April 26, 2016 Shahien Nasiripour, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Fossil Fuels, Higher Education, Student Protests

By Shahien Nasiripour for The Huffington Post - Students at nearly a dozen U.S. colleges have planned protests in recent weeks targeting their schools’ investments in the oil, gas and coal sectors, part of a coordinated push to stop colleges from funding companies that contribute to global warming. Nearly 700 students and their supporters have already staged sit-ins and held rallies at more than six campuses this month, including University of Denver, Columbia University, New York University and Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.

Students Protest Potential Punishment Of Rape Victim

April 25, 2016 Daniel Hernandez, www.theguardian.com Resist! Higher Education, Rape, Student Protests

By Daniel Hernandez for The Guardian - Students rallied outside Brigham Young University on Wednesday to protest the school’s treatment of sexual assault victims, calling for revisions to the Mormon university’s “honor code”, religious bylaws through which rape victims can be punished for having consumed alcohol or had a member of the opposite sex in a bedroom. The protest follows outrage over the rape case of sophomore Madi Barney, 19, who reported to Provo, Utah, police that she was raped in her off-campus apartment during a date.

UC Davis Defends Paying To Remove Pepper-Spray References From Internet

April 21, 2016 Sarah Parvini, www.latimes.com Educate! Higher Education, University of California

By Sarah Parvini for Los Angeles Times - UC Davis is defending its decision to pay consultants at least $175,000 to clean up its online image after students and alumni were pepper sprayed by police in 2011. Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Glendale) called on UC Davis' chancellor to resign, citing the payment and other issues that have roiled the campus. UC Davis officials released a statement late Thursday saying, "Increased investment in social media and communications strategy has heightened the profile of the university to good effect."

Undeterred Students Keep Up Second Week of Divestment Sit-Ins

April 20, 2016 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org Resist! Divestment, Higher Education, Occupation, Student Activism

By Nadia Prupis for Common Dreams - Students at three major American universities are digging in for a series of prolonged sit-ins and risking suspension and arrest to demand that their schools divest from fossil fuels. NYU's protest, which launched Monday, saw students with NYU Divest occupying the administrative elevator and lobby of the school's Bobst Library to demand the Board of Trustees holds a vote on divestment at its next meeting and allows the group to give them a presentation.

Campus Battle Heats Up Over BDS

April 20, 2016 Naomi Dann, www.lobelog.com Resist! BDS, Higher Education, Palestine, Student Activism

By Naomi Dann for Lobe Log Foreign Policy - On April 14, the Doctoral Students Council (DSC) at the City University of New York Graduate Center passed a resolution endorsing the boycott of Israeli academic institutions. Citing Israeli-imposed barriers to Palestinians’ right to education, the complicity of Israeli academic institutions in military research and technology, and the DSC’s history of taking action on issues of justice and social change, the resolution passed with 42 votes, 19 opposed, and 9 abstentions.

Yale Divests $10 million From Fossil Fuels

April 18, 2016 Ayla Besemer and Finnegan Schick, www.yaledailynews.com Resist! Divestment, Fossil Fuels, Higher Education, Yale University

By Ayla Besemer and Finnegan Schick for Yale News - In a Tuesday letter to Yale’s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility, Chief Investment Officer David Swensen reported that after months of talking with Yale’s external investment managers about the potential risks associated with investments in coal and oil, around $10 million of the endowment has been removed from three publicly traded fossil fuel producers. Tuesday’s message follows a letter penned by Swensen in 2014, in which he asked Yale’s investment managers to consider climate change in their investment choices.

UC Davis Spent Thousands To Scrub Pepper-Spray References

April 15, 2016 Sam Stanton And Diana Lambert, www.sacbee.com Resist! Higher Education, Student Activism, University of California

By Sam Stanton And Diana Lambert for The Sacramento Bee - Following the 2011 pepper spraying of students, the campus hired consultants to improve the online reputations of UC Davis and Chancellor Linda Katehi. Sam Stanton The Sacramento Bee. UC Davis contracted with consultants for at least $175,000 to scrub the Internet of negative online postings following the November 2011 pepper-spraying of students and to improve the reputations of both the university and Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, newly released documents show.

Dangerous Times In India: Extreme Right Targeting College Students

April 9, 2016 www.alternet.org Resist! Higher Education, India, Students

By Vijay Prashad for AlterNet - What data set she peered into is not clear. India continues to top the UN Food & Agricultural Organization’s hunger list (195 million undernourished people in the country). On UNESCO’s list of adult illiteracy, India sits on top, with 287 million people. Growth rates might rise, but its advantages sneak into the coffers of the über-rich. Indians will not necessarily lead the names in the Panama Papers, but this is after all only one law firm from one country. “Black money” is a scourge of India, as the current government suggested when it came to office.

6 Incidents Of Islamophobia On Campus In 1 Week

April 9, 2016 Imraan Siddiqi, www.mondoweiss.net Educate! Higher Education, Islamophobia

By Imraan Siddiqi for Mondoweiss - When an incident of vandalism or hate graffiti takes place, most would write it off as an isolated incident – an act of foolishness. But when these incidents are taking place on college campuses across the U.S. – half a dozen in a week’s time, that’s cause for concern. So what’s going on here? Are these still isolated incidents? Or is campus Islamophobia on the verge of raging out of control? Take a look at these 6 incidents, and judge for yourself

#MillionStudentMarch: Time To Build Political Revolution!

April 7, 2016 Staff, www.studentmarch.org Organize! Divestment, Higher Education, Minimum Wage, Student Activism, Student Debt, Tuition

By Staff of Million Student March - On November 12, the first #MillionStudentMarch took place on 115 campuses across the country. On April 13th, we’re doing it again, this time joining forces with Black Liberation Collective, the group behind the Mizzou Movement, to say “no” to racism and student debt! Students nationwide will be coming together to challenge the racism of Donald Trump and the corporate establishment.

Duke University Wants To Arrest 9 Students To Cover Up A Hit-And-Run

April 5, 2016 Sumaia Masoom, www.muslimgirl.com Resist! Higher Education, Student Protests

By Sumaia Masoom for Muslim Girl - Duke University administrators welcomed members of the Class of 2019 to campus in August. One hit-and-run, one cover-up, and a slew of other racial slurs and instances of discrimination later, they’re now surrounding a campus building with police and threatening to arrest some of these same students. A total of 9 students – senior Amy Wang, juniors Mina Ezikpe, Lara Haft, and Carolyn Yao, sophomores Cindy Li, Ashlyn Nuckols, Jazmynne Williams, and Dipro Bhowmik, and freshman Sydney Roberts – launched a sit-in on Friday afternoon calling for the resignation of multiple Duke administrators...

Black Study, Black Struggle

March 25, 2016 Robin D. G. Kelley, www.bostonreview.net Organize! Education, Higher Education, History, Political Education, Race

By Robin D. G. Kelley for Boston Review - In the fall of 2015, college campuses were engulfed by fires ignited in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri. This is not to say that college students had until then been quiet in the face of police violence against black Americans. Throughout the previous year, it had often been college students who hit the streets, blocked traffic, occupied the halls of justice and malls of America, disrupted political campaign rallies, and risked arrest to protest the torture and suffocation of Eric Garner...

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