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What’s Next for the Quebec Student Movement
The summer lull in this year’s Quebec student protests is coming to a close, and the next few weeks are likely to be crucial ones for the future of the movement. To recap: Quebec’s ruling Liberal Party...
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A New Phase for the Quebec Student Uprising
Tuesday’s provincial election was a pretty good day for the Quebec student movement. The Parti Québécois, which had opposed the Liberal government’s tuition hikes and its anti-demonstration Loi 78, won...
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Pell Grant Outlays Are Down, But There’s A Silver Lining
Pell Grant expenditures by the federal government fell by more than six percent last year, according to new figures from the federal government, despite the fact that they were expected to rise by some...
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CUNY Administration Declares War On Rebel English Department
URGENT UPDATE, September 16: I’ve spoken with a QCC faculty member who has confirmed the report below and added important new details on crucial elements of the story, including the vote count from the...
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Full Text of the Queensborough English Department Attack Letter
Yesterday I reported on an attempt by CUNY administrators to dismantle the English department at the system’s Queensborough Community College in retaliation for the department’s refusal to approve a...
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CUNY Declares War On Rebel English Department: New Information from QCC
Yesterday I reported that the English department at Queensborough Community College had voted to reject an administration-initiated restructuring of their composition program, and that the college’s...
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Wesleyan Students Facing Judicial Charges After Trustee Meeting Occupation
Last weekend some forty Wesleyan students entered a closed meeting of the university’s Board of Trustees, looking to give input on a matter of university governance. The students were advocates of...
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Bleeding Money, Phoenix University Will Shut Down More than a Hundred “Campuses”
Three weeks ago for-profit college giant Kaplan announced it was closing thirteen campuses. Yesterday the Apollo Group, owner of Phoenix University, announced even larger cuts. With Phoenix enrollment...
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Apocalypse Now for California Public Higher Ed?
Most observers of the American university are intimately familiar with the long-term decline and recent degradation of public higher education in California (if you need a refresher, check out Aaron...
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Student Bystander Killed by Cops at Dominican Republic Campus Privatization...
A student was shot and killed, apparently by police, at a protest against tax hikes and university privatization plans at the Dominican Republic’s largest public university. William Florian Ramírez,...
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Florida Atlantic University Sells Stadium Naming Rights to Notorious Prison...
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 private...
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