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By Jared Diamond
By Shlomo Sand
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Rather than bridging economic disparities between students, higher education seems to be widening them; although Google’s new customizable maps sound like a great idea, they filter out a lot of useful information; and although some would like to blame the collapse of the middle class on the Internet, truth is it was falling apart long before the World Wide Web. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus Dispatch —
Posted on May 13, 2013
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By Marian Wang, ProPublica —
Student fees have been something of a known irritant for years, often criticized as a kind of stealth, second tuition imposed on unsuspecting families. But such fees are still on the rise on many campuses. And though their names can border on the comical—i.e., the “student success fee”—there’s nothing funny about how they can add up.
Posted on Mar 31, 2013
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By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout —
Higher education must be understood as a democratic public sphere—a space in which education enables students to develop a keen sense of prophetic justice, claim their moral and political agency, utilize critical analytical skills, and cultivate an ethical sensibility through which they learn to respect the rights of others.
Posted on Mar 27, 2013
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By Nikole Hannah-Jones, ProPublica —
Even if Fisher received points for her race and every other personal achievement factor, the letter she received in the mail from the University of Texas still would have said no.
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
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College costs climbed to an all-time high in 2012 while state and local funding for items such as operating expenses and student aid fell, a new report shows.
Posted on Mar 7, 2013
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By Mike Rose — Right at the point when they are most needed, our second-chance institutions are being severely threatened. Across the country, community colleges, adult schools and literacy programs are reporting record enrollments at the same time they have to trim staff, classes and services.
Posted on Dec 12, 2012
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Flickr/Mays Business School at Texas A&M University
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By Mike Rose — The college-for-all versus occupational training debate is typically focused on structural features of the K-12 curriculum and on economic outcomes with little attention paid to the intellectual and emotional lives of the young people involved—their interests, what has meaning for them, what they want to do with their lives.
Posted on Dec 9, 2012
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After the president of one of the last tuition-free universities in the United States announced that it would begin charging fees for graduate programs, 11 students occupied a campus building to “demand that the school reaffirm its commitment to providing free education” and a revision of the university’s management style.
Posted on Dec 4, 2012
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A veteran reformer of higher education, an unparalleled Chaucer scholar and an early advocate of the 1960s free speech movement, Charles Muscatine has passed away at the age of 89 in Oakland, Calif.
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Today on the list: gay-baiting in Illinois’ GOP primary, a website for beautiful people only (ouch), the ups and downs of higher education and more.
Posted on Jan 5, 2010
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Today on the list: Does the English department have a Jewish problem? Plus: How to make change actually happen, and more. Updated
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