Colleges and universities around the nation are using COVID-19 related budget crises to double down on their long existing attack on the humanities and social sciences. First, the University of.
High Country News explores how western land grant institutions of higher education continue to make money to this day on land stolen from Native people. The Morrill Act of 1862,.
Apropos the two post from yesterday on COVID-19 and education, three Georgetown professors – Shweta Bansal, Colin Carlson and John Kraemer – have a piece in the Washington Post arguing.
The malign incompetence of the Trump administration has already, by some estimates, killed at least 100,000 Americans. The US has failed to contain the pandemic, and CDC officials are increasingly.
Need to congratulate the Brown graduate students for winning a union contract. This is actually a big deal. Private schools have been harshly anti-union. While Democratic presidents have opened up.
Yes, if you look hard enough, this network plot of COVID-19 spread looks like COVID-19. As the full picture of the economic impacts of the Great Lockdown emerges, there are.
I know I've talked about how much I hate the textbook industry before, but this is just well over the line. The world's largest education publisher has taken the first.
Higher education in the 21st century, especially at elite institution, is basically a hedge fund operation, building up enormous endowments while not spending any of it on anything that doesn't.
