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Higher Ed

The Campus After COVID-19

Infrastructures of “innovation” have produced new forms of surveillance and compliance that will refigure the post-pandemic campus

March 4, 2021 • by Bonnie Mak and Hallam Stevens

_____ Campuses around the world continue to engage in a dangerous experiment: welcoming students back to class even as Covid-19 and its more infectious variants spread. On campus, just as elsewhere, a successful and sustained reopening relies on those who are among the most vulnerable: custodial and maintenance staff and essential ...

Feminism

Women’s History, An Origin Story

In 1975, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg published “The Female World of Love and Ritual, and changed how my generation of feminists understood the practice of history

March 1, 2021 • by Claire Potter

I first encountered Carroll Smith-Rosenberg’s “The Female World of Love and Ritual” in 1978. I was twenty and a junior at Yale. A teaching assistant passed it on to me when I met with her after class: a paper was due and my mind was empty. She said that there ...

Education

Student Loans: The Origins of a Racket

The road to student loan hell was paved with good intentions

February 18, 2021 • by Devan Lindey

"Education can lift people and propel the country’s economy, but it can’t do that if it leaves many of its beneficiaries weighed down by life-altering amounts of debt." - Devon Lindey ...

Activism

Black Swans No More!

When Things Fall Apart, a New Role for Community-Engaged Scholars

February 15, 2021 • by Trebor Scholz

As the pandemic has worn on, I have found myself devoting more and more of my time to conversations with researchers who have one foot in the world of alternative economies. I talked with dozens of Ph.D. students who self-identify as scholar-activists; they don’t want to stop at an analysis ...

Higher Ed

A Relevant Education

The New School in the 1960s

February 12, 2021 • by Howard Kirschenbaum

———— After such a vital summer of civil rights work in Mississippi in 1964, I could not see returning to the ivory tower of Johns Hopkins, where most academic courses seemed to have no relevance to the real world issues that concerned me. Shortly after returning from the Democratic National Convention ...

The New School

Reckoning with The New School’s Legacies

A comprehensive view reveals entrenched inequities

February 8, 2021 • by Julia Foulkes

_____ What The New School was, is, and could be, has long been contested, often by those who care the most about it. The institution has a convoluted and sometimes contradictory past. It is an amalgamation of parts and histories, a place of stops and starts, sometimes an alternative to traditional ...

Reckoning with The New School’s Legacies

Education

Bridging the Gap: When Students from Two Very Different Campuses Find a Path to Understanding Each Other

Two reputations, two narratives, one goal: to listen, learn and value each other

February 4, 2021 • by Kevin Brown and Meredith Raimondo

"From our vantage point as Deans of Student Affairs (at two very different small liberal arts institutions), the process towards healing the divides in our nation could only be achieved through finding our collective humanity, not through vanquishing our alleged enemies. We wanted to keep the professed sentiments of President ...

Bridging the Gap: When Students from Two Very Different Campuses Find a Path to Understanding Each Other

Education

What You Learn When You Talk to Conservative Students

College professors and college administrations have to do better–we are losing these kids to extremism

February 3, 2021 • by Claire Potter

"We have a tough job in the next four years as we try to rebuild a more inclusive and truly democratic national conversation." - Claire Potter...

What You Learn When You Talk to Conservative Students

Announcements

Conference Announcement: Memory Studies Group 2021 Online Conference

January 29, 2021 • by Linus Glenhaber

Call for Papers (February 15, 2021 Deadline) Augustine of Hippo (353-430 AD) stated in his Confessions that “if the present were always present, and did not pass into past time, it obviously would not be time but eternity” (Book 11, section 14.17). Uncannily, this phrase echoes our suspended present enforced by COVID-19. It is ...

Higher Ed

What is Expertise Worth?

Wikipedia, credentials, and the democratization of knowledge

December 17, 2020 • by Laura Goldblatt and Richard Handler

A recent email solicitation from a freelance writer made the rounds among faculty at the University of Virginia. “You are not on Wikipedia!” the author exclaims with apparent amazement, despite the fact that “academics who have accomplished much less have Wikipedia pages.” Anyone who knows Wikipedia also knows that you ...

Activism

Worse Than Betsy DeVos? Outside Money Swamps 2020 School Board Elections

A national campaign to privatize public schools continues regardless of who is president

December 15, 2020 • by Jeff Bryant

When a Biden victory in the 2020 presidential election became certain, supporters of public education gleefully took to social media to say good riddance to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. DeVos came into office with an agenda to further the privatization of public education by expanding charter schools and ...

Worse Than Betsy DeVos? Outside Money Swamps 2020 School Board Elections

Democracy

The Thin Blue Line

The Trump campaign weaves evangelicals and the alt-right more tightly into the president’s increasingly fragile base

October 26, 2020 • by Heather Cox Richardson

------ Recognizing that he is losing the demographics he needs to win reelection, Trump has clearly decided that his best bet is to spur his base to turn out in vast numbers and vote. To that end, he has given up any pretense of appealing to voters outside his base. At ...

Education

Women’s History, An Origin Story

In 1975, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg published “The Female World of Love and Ritual, and changed how my generation of feminists understood the practice of history

Student Loans: The Origins of a Racket

The road to student loan hell was paved with good intentions

Black Swans No More!

When Things Fall Apart, a New Role for Community-Engaged Scholars

A Relevant Education

The New School in the 1960s

Reckoning with The New School’s Legacies

A comprehensive view reveals entrenched inequities

Bridging the Gap: When Students from Two Very Different Campuses Find a Path to Understanding Each Other

Two reputations, two narratives, one goal: to listen, learn and value each other

What You Learn When You Talk to Conservative Students

College professors and college administrations have to do better–we are losing these kids to extremism

Conference Announcement: Memory Studies Group 2021 Online Conference

What is Expertise Worth?

Wikipedia, credentials, and the democratization of knowledge

Worse Than Betsy DeVos? Outside Money Swamps 2020 School Board Elections

A national campaign to privatize public schools continues regardless of who is president

The Thin Blue Line

The Trump campaign weaves evangelicals and the alt-right more tightly into the president’s increasingly fragile base

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