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Florida Atlantic University Sells Stadium Naming Rights to Notorious Prison Company
Here’s a mind-boggling one. Florida Atlantic University, a 29,000-student public university in Boca Raton, will announce today that it has sold the naming rights to its football stadium to a pri… more →
Florida Atlantic University Sells Stadium Naming Rights to Notorious Prison Company
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wrote 3 months ago: Here’s a mind-boggling one. Florida Atlantic University, a 29,000-student public university in … more →
Student Bystander Killed by Cops at Dominican Republic Campus Privatization Protest
wrote 6 months ago: A student was shot and killed, apparently by police, at a protest against tax hikes and university p … more →
Apocalypse Now for California Public Higher Ed?
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wrote 6 months ago: Most observers of the American university are intimately familiar with the long-term decline and rec … more →
Bleeding Money, Phoenix University Will Shut Down More than a Hundred "Campuses"
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wrote 7 months ago: Three weeks ago for-profit college giant Kaplan announced it was closing thirteen campuses. Yesterda … more →
Wesleyan Students Facing Judicial Charges After Trustee Meeting Occupation
wrote 7 months ago: Last weekend some forty Wesleyan students entered a closed meeting of the university’s Board o … more →
CUNY Declares War On Rebel English Department: New Information from QCC
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wrote 8 months ago: Yesterday I reported that the English department at Queensborough Community College had voted to rej … more →
Full Text of the Queensborough English Department Attack Letter
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wrote 8 months ago: Yesterday I reported on an attempt by CUNY administrators to dismantle the English department at the … more →
CUNY Administration Declares War On Rebel English Department
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wrote 8 months ago: URGENT UPDATE, September 16: I’ve spoken with a QCC faculty member who has confirmed the repor … more →
Pell Grant Outlays Are Down, But There's A Silver Lining
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wrote 8 months ago: Pell Grant expenditures by the federal government fell by more than six percent last year, according … more →
A New Phase for the Quebec Student Uprising
wrote 8 months ago: Tuesday’s provincial election was a pretty good day for the Quebec student movement. The Parti … more →
What's Next for the Quebec Student Movement
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wrote 9 months ago: The summer lull in this year’s Quebec student protests is coming to a close, and the next few … more →
Protest, Politics Will Be Banned at Yale's New Singapore Campus
wrote 10 months ago: Though many US universities have cooled to the idea of opening overseas campuses in the last few yea … more →
Freeh Report on PSU Slams Paterno, Spanier for Conspiracy to Protect Jerry Sandusky
wrote 10 months ago: An independent report on Penn State’s handling of child sexual abuse allegations against Jerry … more →
Students Occupying DePaul University to Stop Tuition Hike
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wrote 1 year ago: Fourteen DePaul University students have staged a campus occupation against the university’s t … more →
What Does the #M1 National Day of Action Tell Us About the State of the Student Movement?
wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday’s national action was the largest such day of coordinated campus protest since the O … more →
Liveblogging #M1, the March 1 National Student Day of Action (Afternoon Edition)
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wrote 1 year ago: It’s four o’clock in the afternoon (ET), I’m back from teaching, and I’m pic … more →
Liveblogging #M1, the March 1 National Student Day of Action
wrote 1 year ago: Today is a national day of action on American college campuses, a day of coordinated student protest … more →
Quebec Student Strike Against Tuition Hikes Is Huge. And Growing.
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wrote 1 year ago: A tuition fee protest is gaining momentum in Quebec this week, with organizers claiming that more th … more →
Happy Valentine's Day. We're Breaking Up.
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wrote 1 year ago: In a post titled “We’re Breaking Up,” the Student Labor Action Project announced t … more →
