higher education
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Every Argument Against Student Debt Forgiveness, Explained (and Dismissed)
What happens to a student loan deferred?Does it dry uplike Donald Trump’s skin?Or draw interest—Do payments ever end? Does it grow into a mountain of debt?Until an unknown numbercalls you up to collect? Maybe it just sagslike a heavy load.Until someone forgives it… And white people explode. For most Americans not named Ivanka and those…
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Morris Brown College Moves Closer to Regaining Its Accreditation After Nearly 20 Years
I’m an Atlanta-area resident who remembers how huge and devastating the 2002 demise of Morris Brown College’s accreditation was in the city and especially around the Atlanta University Center (AUC), so it warms my heart to report that the historically Black college is one step closer to winning back its accreditation after losing it nearly…
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The Wounded Explaining the Wound: The Forced Sterilization of Women of Color Is No Small Matter
With things happening so fast in the world around us, the news cycle feels like a whirlwind moving from story to story overnight. Even reports as disturbing as allegations of mass hysterectomies in ICE detention camps disappeared from the national conversation as quickly as they came—though it could be argued that that aligns with a…
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A Black Professor Asked by Police to Prove She Belonged on Campus Talks About the ‘Surreal’ Experience of Racism in Higher Ed Spaces
Danielle Fuentes Morgan had been looking forward to the reunion with her brother for months. The assistant professor at Santa Clara University was hosting her younger brother, Carlos Fuentes, a composer and music teacher, at her home last weekend. Though he lives in nearby Sacramento, the siblings hadn’t seen each other since last Christmas due…
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After Years of Student Protests, Princeton Strikes the Name of Segregationist President Woodrow Wilson From Its Buildings
Princeton announced Saturday that it was striking the name of former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson from its public and international affairs school as well as a residential building, citing his “racist thinking and policies” during his time in office, as well as his tenure as president of the famed Ivy League school. The decision came…
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Trump’s Cringe-Worthy Pitch to HBCU Leadership: I’m the Best You’ve Ever Had
Donald Trump, addressing leaders of the nation’s HBCUs on Tuesday, pledged to be a force for “strengthening” historically black colleges and universities, as HBCU leadership often find themselves working to separate the messaging on money for their schools from the often divisive rhetoric of the man himself. “I think it’s important to stay focused on…
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Access Is Not Inclusion: Meet the Harvard Professor Who Studies Low-Income and Disadvantaged College Students
“Education alone does not erase generations of exclusion, racism that we see in the housing market, that we see in the job market, that we see in the very DNA of this country.” — Professor Anthony Jack, Ph.D. text When I was in high school, I was an idealist—especially when it came to my education.…
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Black Harvard Professor Who Represented Harvey Weinstein Loses Faculty Dean Position
Harvard announced Saturday that law professor Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., who represented embattled film producer Harvey Weinstein until recently, would not continue as faculty dean of an undergraduate house after his term ends on June 30, following pressure from students, according to the New York Times. Weinstein is set to stand trial on rape and…
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The Education Department Is Canceling $150 Million Of Student Loan Debt and Betsy DeVos Can Stay Mad
I didn’t come here to praise Betsy DeVos. So, I won’t. Nearly 15,000 emails to former students and parents of students who attended college campuses overseen by now-defunct Corinthian Colleges and other for-profit institutions like ITT Tech were sent. Thanks to an Obama-era provision called the Automatic Closed School Discharge, everyone who received one has…
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Racist Columbia Student Caught Saying Racist Things on Camera, Will Have You Know He's Not Racist
The white kid spotted extolling the virtues of whiteness to fellow students in a recent viral video wants you to know he’s definitely not racist. Columbia University sophomore Julian von Abele, a physics major, shared a statement with The Daily Beast stating his actions in the video fail to show “his true beliefs,” casting the…