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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

The Revenge of the Poverty-Stricken College Professors Is Underway in Florida. And It's Big.

In just the past few years, one union has organized close to 10,000 Florida adjuncts, in what is one of the most remarkable and little-noticed large scale labor campaigns in the country.

Hamilton Nolan Splinter Jun 2019 20min Permalink

The New Activism of Campus Life

On trigger warnings, allyship, intersectionality, and what’s really eating Oberlin.

Nathan Heller New Yorker May 2016 35min Permalink

A Dream of Secular Utopia in ISIS' Backyard

On a thin sliver of land called Rojava where “rules of the neighboring ISIS caliphate ha[ve] been inverted,” a Kurdish Syrian college trains its future autonomous leaders.

Wes Enzinna New York Times Magazine Nov 2015 30min Permalink