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The Best Four Years of Your Life?

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands August 3, 2021October 19, 2022

“My future — the vague, all-consuming ideal we’re taught to live for — felt like a more dominant force in my life than my present.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The ‘Race Realist’ on Campus

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 29, 2021October 19, 2022

“Why was Professor Gregory Christainsen allowed to teach Black and Latino students at Cal State East Bay that they were inherently less smart?”

Posted inEditor's Pick

A Black Physicist Is Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 17, 2021October 19, 2022

“I am forced to live in a parallel world to the one I wanted to live in, where I could have been a physicist without also constantly being asked to speak on or attempt to compensate for the persistent racism of institutions.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Reading Lessons

by benhuberman July 23, 2019October 19, 2022

You never stop learning how to read — probably because you also never stop forgetting how to read.

Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

The Unstable Business of Higher Education

by Aaron Gilbreath July 2, 2019October 19, 2022

Why are so many small American colleges like Newbury closing?

Posted inReading List

MFA vs. NYC: A Reading List

by Jacqueline Alnes April 18, 2019October 19, 2022

Poverty and a lack of diversity are just a couple of pitfalls Jacqueline Alnes explores in this list.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Creeping Capitalist Takeover of Higher Education

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 2, 2019October 19, 2022

Universities had the chance to make higher education accessible to more students by making the price of online degrees affordable. But they didn’t.

Posted inHighlight, Quotes

Who Do You Have for Science This Year, I Have Mr. YouTube Again

by michelleweber December 6, 2018October 19, 2022

“The longer these kids stayed there, the further behind they were.”

Posted inArts & Culture, College, Media, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

The Humanities Marketplace As a Circle of Hell

by Aaron Gilbreath November 19, 2018October 19, 2022

The struggles of a motivated, educated academic to find sufficient work.

Posted inArts & Culture, Blog Post, Commentary, Culture, Current Events, Science & Nature, Unapologetic Women

Why Beyoncé Placed HBCU’s at the Center of American Life

by Danielle Jackson May 7, 2018October 19, 2022

The singer’s latest performance helps expand the possibilities of what it looks like to be a black thinking person.

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