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Activism

Elite Capture and Racial Capital, from the University to Palestine

A conversation on the part-time faculty strike and freedom on campus

February 14, 2024 • by Cresa Pugh, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Julie Beth Napolin

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and author of Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else), joined Cresa Pugh and Julie Beth Napolin at The New School in December 2023, for a conversation on racial capital in university life, the New ...

Elite Capture and Racial Capital, from the University to Palestine

Higher Ed

The Cyclopes in the Food Court

Or, how to get your students to go to their Gen Ed classes

February 6, 2024 • by Daniel H. Foster

As chair of liberal arts at Johns Hopkins’ Peabody Institute, every autumn orientation I tell the incoming students this tale of Cyclopean narrow-mindedness in order to plant a memorable image in their minds of what to avoid....

Education

It Was Supposed to Make Getting College Aid Simpler. It Hasn’t.

An Urban Matters Q&A with financial aid author Kim Nauer about the FAFSA’s botched rollout

February 6, 2024 • by Center for New York City Affairs and Kim Nauer

Experts speaking at a recent webinar co-hosted by Immigrants Rising stated the FAFSA is “absolutely not working” for mixed-status families. “We’re talking about millions of individuals who are college-age,” noted the organization’s director of higher education....

It Was Supposed to Make Getting College Aid Simpler. It Hasn’t.

Education

Silencing Teachers in Yemen

How the Houthi threaten the future of a civil society

January 9, 2024 • by Abdulgaleel Ahmed

As the Houthi replaced the internationally recognized government of Yemen, dismissing it predictably as illegitimate and manipulated by Western forces, they dismantled the nation’s academic institutions, imposing a coercive educational regime with an ideologically-driven curriculum on instructors at every level, from primary schools to universities....

Education

The Humanities As a Theory of Change

The career of Ruth Simmons is a lesson in humanities methodology

November 14, 2023 • by Antoinette Burton

At a moment when state auditors are scrutinizing higher education budgets with an eye to trimming humanities majors and offerings out of existence, we’d do well to pause and reflect on the career of the distinguished educator Ruth Simmons....

Education

Political Polarization Threatens American Education

Fighting back against the anti-learning culture wars

April 24, 2023 • by Molly Nolan

State and local governments and right-wing private organizations collaborate closely to both promote state control of education and defund it....

Political Polarization Threatens American Education

Higher Ed

A Faculty Union Can Fight for More Than Money

As a strike looms at Rutgers, our model for campus equity centers teaching and learning

March 29, 2023 • by J. Faith Almiron

J. Faith Almiron discusses the unfair treatment of teachers and educators at Rutgers University. Now a strike is looming....

A Faculty Union Can Fight for More Than Money

Higher Ed

The American University of Afghanistan and Me

At a moment of tragedy and upheaval, sociologist Jeffrey Goldfarb found new colleagues and students on the internet

February 22, 2023 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Due to unforeseen circumstances, I am teaching at the American University of Afghanistan in exile....

The American University of Afghanistan and Me

Higher Ed

Why Do Students Cheat?

ChatGPT and the myth of meritocracy

February 22, 2023 • by Hannah Leffingwell

ChatGPT is just one symptom of a more severe disease in higher education, namely, the multiple forms of meritocratic thinking......

Higher Ed

Counting the Social Cost of What College Costs

The financial burden of higher education is not an unfortunate accident, nor is it a “fact of life” or a “natural consequence” of going to college

February 15, 2023 • by Lora Burnett

Now many of the students with the most motivation to work towards a more equitable and just society feel the least liberty to do so....

Counting the Social Cost of What College Costs

Education

Biden Must Not Bail on Four Million Older Americans

The President is quietly betraying a generation of indebted students

November 15, 2022 • by Chivas Sandage

The fact that representatives referred only to “students” and “young people” suggests that they didn’t yet know it is older Americans who are being abruptly left behind. We were never warned that we could soon be treated as “a separate and unequal class.”...

Biden Must Not Bail on Four Million Older Americans

Higher Ed

Three Ways the United States Should Rethink the Economics of Higher Education

Now working in education in Australia, there’s something former New School Provost Tim Marshall doesn’t miss about the U.S. system

November 7, 2022 • by Tim Marshall

While tuition fees in Australia remain modest in comparison to the US, the design of the repayment scheme is also worth consideration. This scheme is available to students attending both government, and the growing number of accredited private, institutions. Unlike the US, where private lenders and servicers play an important ...