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What we can learn from Missouri students' epic win
Tue, 11/10/2015 - 3:27pm

While students didn't get everything they wanted and the struggle continues, the relative swiftness of victory here is worth examining.

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Tuition-backing Cooper Union trustees resign, act like sore losers [HUGE UPDATE]
Wed, 06/10/2015 - 3:41pm

Last night, we learned that five trustees of the Cooper Union suddenly resigned from the board, including the board's recent chairman Mark Epstein. This is an unambiguous victory for anti-tuition organizers and activists, and a victory for the future of Cooper Union.

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State of the Union 2015: Higher Ed (Updated)
Tue, 01/20/2015 - 7:56pm

The annual State of the Union Address is a key aspect of the political spectacle of the modern Presidency. It's in these addresses that Presidents announce new policy goals, attempt to shore up public support, try out new narrative and rhetorical frames to shape the political landscape for the coming year, and in most cases, assiduously avoid going into detail.

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Trustees: a Legion of Doom on every campus
Tue, 05/20/2014 - 5:13pm
Meanwhile, at the Board of Trustees...

Boards of Trustees (or Regents, Visitors, etc.) are as old as American colleges themselves. The University of Virginia's initial Board of Visitors included two Presidents —Thomas Jefferson and James Madison — and a host of local and national politicians. 

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UC on strike! Here's why, and how you can help
Wed, 04/02/2014 - 12:21pm

The grievances that have spurred the strike are specific to higher ed, but the general line of attack from UC administrators is one that workers experience everywhere.

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5 lessons for student organizers from the UAW failure
Thu, 02/20/2014 - 5:03pm
UAW President Bob King

Last Friday, workers at Volkswagen's factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee voted 712 to 626 against unionizing with the United Automobile Workers. There are more than a thousand unionization votes in the U.S. every year, so what made this vote particularly important? What can students learn from their failure?

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Surprise! Harvard economist gets everything wrong about unpaid internships
Sun, 11/03/2013 - 5:08pm
Edward L Gleaser loves him some unpaid internships, because capitalism.

Edward Glaeser, an economics professor at Harvard, lays out the case for working for free.

Well, free for your employers, not for you, because you should really just take out a few more student loans while you're at it:

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Make $38k Using this One Weird Trick: Pepper Spray Students
Wed, 10/23/2013 - 5:56pm

Former UC Davis cop John Pike, made infamous when cameras captured him casually pepper spraying dozens of peaceful protesters, is now receiving $38,059 from the university. But it gets worse.

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Obama's Whack-a-Mole Approach to Higher Ed
Fri, 08/23/2013 - 2:14pm

Yesterday, in the middle of a packed auditorium at SUNY's Binghamton University, President Obama laid out a number of proposals aimed at reforming the U.S. system of higher education. Here's why they miss the mark.

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NSPC Reportback: Our Struggles! Our Fight!
Mon, 08/12/2013 - 6:05pm
National Student Power Convergence

Below is a reportback from Sara Fitouri, Denver-based organizer with COSPA, the Colorado Student Power Alliance.

From August 1st - 5th more than 300 youth from around the nation converged in Madison, Wisconsin for a weekend of radical thought, workshops including anti-oppression and direct action trainings, and reporting back on a year of work in their home states.

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