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Climate Reality’s Campus Corps: How Students Can Tackle Climate Change
“We’re messing with Mother Nature and we’re making all these extreme events more intense and more common,” Al Gore told a packed room of climate activists today at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It’s Day Two of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps training, and Gore was offering a summary of a… Read More
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How Students Are Assisting Puerto Rico Recovery Efforts From Their Laptops
The library was abuzz with the sound of students tapping away on their laptops as they edited maps online. Was this a class in cartography that filled the North Reading Room at Stony Brook University’s Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library? No. It was a “Mapathon,” and similar mapathons have been taking place at universities… Read More
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Balancing Free Speech and the Right to Protest on U.S. College Campuses
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice in United States v. Schwimmer… Read More
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Universities Affirm Their Commitment to the Paris Agreement
Despite President Trump’s decision to remove the U.S. from the Paris accord, 1,219 U.S. colleges, universities, governors, mayors, businesses, and investors have proclaimed: “We Are Still In.” That number already includes 183 colleges and universities, which is not a surprise, since colleges and institutions have been on the forefront of research and development in the… Read More
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Stigma Surrounding Community College Totally Undeserved
Education is known internationally as one of the most important components for success. And in today’s world, more than ever before, a degree from an accredited university is seen as a necessary key to unlock future opportunities. Each year, an average of 1.3 million high school students in the U.S. will not graduate on time.… Read More
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Free Speech on College Campuses
Activism is a staple of the modern college campus. Colleges and universities are some of the most politically charged environments where political expression of clashing ideas and views are usually encouraged. For more than 400 schools across the country, however, the right to stand up for those views is limited to an area set by… Read More
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Trump Administration Creates Education Exemption to Travel Ban – March 6, 2017
The higher education community has been in an uproar since the issuance of President Trump’s January 27 Executive Order cutting off the flow of students and scholars from 7 Muslim-majority countries (the “Initial Order”). Many universities issued statements expressing concern, educators circulated petitions, and rallies took place at campuses across the United States. For our part, on… Read More
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Where Free Education Stands in the U.S.
Where Free Education Stands in the U.S. As the price of college continues to grow, so does the number of students worried about being able to complete college debt-free. According to U.S. News and World Report, in-state tuition has risen 296% between the years of 1995 and 2015, and student debt currently exceeds $1.2 trillion.… Read More
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2016 Presidential Nominees on Gun Control
One of the major issues of the 2016 election cycle thus far has been gun control. Gun control has often been an extremely polarizing topic in American politics, drawing deep divides across party lines with Democrats generally in favor of stricter gun laws and Republicans opposed to these measures. This polarization is true despite the… Read More
