Erik Hayden, Miller-McCune.com. November 17, 2009. Can ADHD stimulants like Adderall be the answer for college students looking to increase academic performance? They think so.
Michael Schwartz, AlterNet. November 13, 2009. The military wants to integrate itself into campus life and therefore gain routine access to rank-and file students to recruit regular soldiers
Danny Weil, CounterPunch. October 27, 2009. Thanks to Bush-era policies, schools have figured out how to work the federal student aid system while at the same time selling counterfeit dreams to low-income students.
Alex DiBranco, The Nation. October 4, 2009. The explosion of student sex columns represents a campus movement possessed of the same subversive potential that fueled 1960s student activism.
Kevin Carey, Washington Monthly. September 7, 2009. The next generation of online education could be great for students -- and catastrophic for universities.
Susan Henking, Religion Dispatches. August 27, 2009. A recent study finds that certain majors are likely to make students less religious. Why is this such a big deal?
Paul Armentano, Steve Fox, Mason Tvert, Chelsea Green Publishing. August 20, 2009. The stats for death and injury tied to alcohol on campus are staggering, yet students are more harshly punished for pot -- which is far more benign.
David Price, CounterPunch. June 24, 2009. The "Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program" may become a permanent budget item, making universities unwitting agents of state intelligence.
Don Tapscott, Edge. June 17, 2009. There is a huge clash between the model of learning offered by big universities and the natural way that young people who have grown up digital learn.
Peter Schmidt, AlterNet. May 23, 2009. The results are campus environments where disregard for society is socially accepted, where misguided students are encouraged to become worse.
Andy Kroll, Tomdispatch.com. April 3, 2009. Attending a four-year public college may soon be out of reach for all but the wealthiest. This is the greatest assault yet to the American dream.
Jeffrey J. Williams, Dissent Magazine. February 5, 2009. College student-loan debt has revived the spirit of indenture for a sizable proportion of contemporary Americans.
Pedro de la Torre III, Campus Progress. December 31, 2008. Not everyone is suffering equally: low and middle income students are particularly vulnerable in the current economic environment.
Bryan Farrell, Voices of Central Pennsylvania. October 2, 2008. Military culture is taking hold of universities, which defense researchers are using to develop weapons like puke rays and acoustic bazookas.
Ryan Powers, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. February 13, 2008. Gene Nichol, the President of William and Mary, resigned yesterday in protest of a politically-motivated decision not to renew his contract.
Michael Gould-Wartofsky, The Nation and TomDispatch.com. January 11, 2008. Free speech zones. Taser guns. Hidden cameras. Blackwater and other private security contractors... College campuses join the Homeland Security state.
Larisa Mann, WireTap. December 8, 2007. A bill in the works could cut off federal funding for financial aid if universities don't stop their students from filesharing.
Kristina Rizga, AlterNet: PEEK. September 28, 2007. Kristina Rizga: Here's a closer look at some key provisions of the bill, sponsored by Sen. Ted Kennedy and Rep. George Miller (D-CA).
Amy Traub, AlterNet: PEEK. June 8, 2007. Amy Traub: In another dysfunctional column David Brooks gets economics, philosophy and plain old reality wrong.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. May 2, 2007. Is a college degree really a sign of competence? Or is it chiefly a signal to employers that you've mastered the ability to obey and conform?
