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, which established the
Rita Konaev has a great piece at the Washington Post on the Trump administration’s new policy for international students. If this policy had been enacted when I was an international student, it
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 pes
When McSweeney’s nails it, they really nail it. This bit titled “We Condemn All Institutional Racism But Our Own” pretty much sums up the actual response of higher education but real
As the full picture of the economic impacts of the Great Lockdown emerges, there are several sectors that are bracing for the full financial hit (think state budgets which will no doubt crater as all
There really isn’t any good reason for Democratic candidates to oppose the idea of free college tuition. But if they are going to do so, can’t they at least not be this clueless? I don’t
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
Even in a relatively good economy, college after college is seeking to turn their institutions into a vo-tech program and eliminate the liberal arts and, in some cases, the social scientists. The late