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Higher Education

Religion

They Went to Bible College to Deepen Their Faith. Then They Were Assaulted—and Blamed for It.

At Moody Bible Institute, purity culture and complementarianism have worked together to forgive abusers and punish the abused.

Becca Andrews Mother Jones Sep 2021 35min Permalink

Business

The Shadowy Business of International Education

Foreign students are lied to and exploited on every front. They’re also propping up higher education as we know it

Nicholas Hune-Brown The Walrus Aug 2021 25min Permalink

Business

The Master's Trap

What makes a graduate program predatory?

Anne Helen Petersen Culture Study Jul 2021 10min Permalink

The True Story of the Heartthrob Prince of Qatar and His Time at USC

When a Qatari sheikh came to live in L.A., an entire economy sprouted to meet his wishes. “His highness doesn’t like to hear no,” one associate told a professor.

Harriet Ryan, Matt Hamilton Los Angeles Times Jul 2020 20min Permalink

The Most Hated Man at the Naval Academy

Bruce Fleming is known for being a chauvinistic, egoistic loudmouth–but firing him has been a lot harder than the Pentagon thought.

Benjamin Wofford Washingtonian Apr 2020 Permalink

Business

The Capitalist Takeover of Higher Education

Just a few years ago, universities had a chance to make a quality education affordable for everyone. Here’s the little-known and absolutely infuriating history of what they did instead.

Kevin Carey Huffington Post Highline Apr 2019 30min Permalink

Ivy League Hopes Were Real. The Rest Was Fake.

The actual story behind those viral college acceptance videos out of T.M. Landry.

Erica L. Green, Katie Benner New York Times Nov 2018 25min Permalink

Politics

State of Conflict

How a tiny protest at the University of Nebraska turned into a proxy war for the future of campus politics.

Steve Kolowich Chronicle of Higher Education Apr 2018 35min Permalink

The College Try

Liz Waite and Kersheral Jessup couldn’t afford a higher education, let alone rent. But they worked and scrounged and slept on couches to put themselves through school. Will their degrees be worth it?

Ashley Powers California Sunday Sep 2017 30min Permalink

You Can Get Fired For Saying That?

Theresa Buchanan, a professor at LSU, “used the f-word in class, overshared about her personal life, and could be brutally candid in her critiques of the student teachers under her tutelage.” Should she have been fired?

Andrew Goldman Elle Jul 2017 Permalink

Best Article

Leveling the Field: What I Learned From For-Profit Education

Undercover as a student at Phoenix University, the largest for-profit higher education company in the country and the second-largest enroller of students (behind the SUNY system), where only 12 percent of first-time students graduate and the ad budget accounts for 30 percent of overall spending.

Christopher R. Beha Harper's Oct 2011 Permalink

Pictures from an Institution

On Leon Botstein and the future of Bard College, which he has run for four decades.

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Alice Gregory on the Longform Podcast.

Alice Gregory New Yorker Sep 2014 25min Permalink

Who Gets to Graduate?

Rich students complete their college degrees; working-class students usually don’t. How one school is trying to intervene.

Paul Tough New York Times Magazine May 2014 35min Permalink

For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall

The story of three friends from Texas and the obstacles they face trying to get a college degree in an age of economic inequality.

Jason DeParle New York Times Dec 2012 20min Permalink

Tech

Get Rich U.

On the relationship between Stanford and Silicon Valley.

Ken Auletta New Yorker Apr 2012 30min Permalink

The Disadvantages of an Elite Education

What happens when top universities focus on careers rather than minds.

William Deresiewicz The American Scholar Jun 2008 20min Permalink

The Educational Lottery

How American higher education became a summer camp doubling as a debt factory.

Steven Brint Los Angeles Review of Books Nov 2011 Permalink

Best Article

Paper Tigers

What becomes of Asian-American overachievers after the test-taking ends?

Wesley Yang New York Jan 2012 35min Permalink