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Students at Colby College

Harvard–Riverside, Round Trip

In the contemporary United States, higher education does more to exaggerate than relieve class and cultural divisions.
by Mitchell L. Stevens via Public Books on August 11, 2021
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Policymakers Created the Student Loan Industry — and The Debt Crisis

While they never intended for more than 45 million Americans to have this much debt, policymakers in the 1960s made fateful choices.
by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer via Made By History on August 5, 2021
Police at the University of California at Berkeley guard the campus building where then-Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos was to speak on Feb. 1, 2017.
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The Racist Roots of Campus Policing

Campus police forces developed as part of an effort to wall off universities from Black neighborhoods.
by Eddie R. Cole via Made By History on June 2, 2021
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Higher Education’s Racial Reckoning Reaches Far Beyond Slavery

Universities helped buttress a racist caste system well into the 20th century.
by Davarian L. Baldwin via Made By History on April 1, 2021
A group of people comprising the Save California Ethnic Studies Coalition, sitting in a circle having a meeting in a lobby.

The History Behind California's Plans to Require Ethnic Studies for Public-School Students

A bill making ethnic studies a graduation requirement for California public-school students is expected to be signed by Governor Newsom.
by Iris Kim via TIME on September 15, 2020
Deserted farm road through corn fields.

Land-Grab Universities

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.
by Tristan Ahtone, Robert Lee via High Country News on March 30, 2020

Higher Education's Reckoning with Slavery

Two decades of activism and scholarship have led to critical self-examination.
by Leslie M. Harris via Academe on January 1, 2020

Jefferson’s Doomed Educational Experiment

The University of Virginia was supposed to transform a slave-owning generation, but it failed.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via The Atlantic on November 10, 2019

Want to Save the Humanities? Make College Free

It's time to shift the social contract of education away from short-term job training toward long-term development.
by David M. Perry via Pacific Standard on May 9, 2019

The Decline of Historical Thinking

For the past decade, history has been declining more rapidly than any other major, even as more and more students attend college.
by Eric Alterman via The New Yorker on February 4, 2019
Line graph of history BAs granted, peaking in the 1960s and declining in the 2010s.

The History BA Since the Great Recession

In the wake of the 2008 financial collapse, no undergraduate area of study has fallen off more than history.
by Benjamin M. Schmidt via Perspectives on History on November 26, 2018

Have Elite US Colleges Lost Their Moral Purpose Altogether?

The ethical formation of citizens was once at the heart of the US elite college. Has this moral purpose gone altogether?
by Chad Wellmon via Aeon on August 16, 2018

Slavery and the American University

Determined researchers are finally drawing the lines between higher education and America's original sin.
by Alex Carp via New York Review of Books on February 7, 2018
Women with field hockey sticks in a physical education class circa 1920.

How the US College Went from Pitiful to Powerful

In its first century the American higher-education system was a messy, disorganised joke. How did it rise to world dominance?
by David Labaree via Aeon on October 11, 2017

For-Profit Colleges in American History

Trump University follows a long line of for-profit schools that have faced accusations of dishonesty.
by A. J. Angulo via Process: A Blog for American History on June 20, 2017
Penn State University

Why Colleges Should Get Rid of Fraternities for Good

Reform is simply not possible.
by Lisa Wade via TIME on May 19, 2017

Names in the Ivy League

The argument over renaming Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School is neither trivial nor simple.
by Joshua Rothman via The New Yorker on November 26, 2015
LBJ signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The Massive Liberal Failure on Race, Part II

Affirmative action doesn't work. It never did. It's time for a new solution.
by Tanner Colby via Slate on February 10, 2014
A UC Berkeley student picket supports a strike protesting demonstrators’ arrests, 1964.
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Whose Side Are College Administrators On?

There’s a long history of politicians targeting student protesters — and of campus leaders abetting those efforts.
by Lauren Lassabe Shepherd via HNN on March 19, 2025
American Flag with Stars replaced with atoms and stripes replaced by syringes and graduated cylinders

The Rise (and Fall?) of the National Science Foundation

In the ’50s, America declared science an ‘endless frontier.’ We may be reaching the end of it.
by Carly Anne York via The Chronicle of Higher Education on February 21, 2025
Protest encampment at University of California Berkeley.

The Free Speech Movement at Sixty and Today’s Unfree Universities

Can speech be free when billionaires buy influence on campus?
by Robert Cohen via Academe on December 4, 2024

"College Sports: A History"

A new book considers the challenges of controlling the commercialization of college sports.
by Glenn C. Altschuler, David Wippman via Inside Higher Ed on November 26, 2024
Illustration of an octopus with a "no talking" symbol, with its tentacles around the globe.

How Cancel Culture Panics Ate the World

A set of peculiarly American anxieties has spread across continents.
by Samuel P. Catlin via The New Republic on November 25, 2024
Protestors at Oxford University, with one holding a sign that reads "End Racism Now."

What Is Decolonisation?

There’s more talk of decolonisation than ever, while true independence for former colonies has faded from view. Why?
by Lydia Walker via Aeon on November 21, 2024
A gate with the dollar signs on the front.

No Change In Elite College Low-Income Enrollment Since 1920s

A comprehensive new study found that the socioeconomic makeup of highly selective colleges is roughly the same as it was a century ago.
by Liam Knox via Inside Higher Ed on November 21, 2024
A standardized test and a pencil, with answers bubbled in.

The Rotting of the College Board

Testing is necessary. The SAT’s creator is not.
by Naomi Schaefer Riley via Commentary on November 13, 2024
Advocates of student loan forgiveness protest outside the Supreme Court.

Reflections on the Geopolitical Roots of U.S. Student Loan Debt

The emergence of student loan debt in the late 1960s can be situated within a broader shift towards neoliberal governance.
by Britain Hopkins via Process: A Blog for American History on October 29, 2024
Fred Grey photographed in front of a book shelf of law books.
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The History of Segregation Scholarships

A narrative not of brain drain but of Black aspiration.
by Crystal R. Sanders via HNN on October 15, 2024
Empty speech bubbles emanating from people in an old house.

Popular History

What role do we really want history to be playing in our public life? And is the history we have actually doing that work?
by Scott Spillman via The Point on September 29, 2024
Photo of United States bill, saying "In God We Trust."

The Deep Religious Roots of American Economics

Any attempt to understand the complexities of American economic thought without considering the significant role of religious beliefs is incomplete.
by Benjamin M. Friedman via The MIT Press Reader on September 5, 2024
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