Atlantic Unbound Archive

Jennifer Washburn

Recent articles by Jennifer Washburn

January/February 2004

The Tuition Crunch

For low-income students college is increasingly out of reach.

December 2002

The At-Risk-Youth Industry

Private companies that run prisons and treatment centers for juveniles have turned out not to be very good at making money or rehabilitating kids.

March 2000

The Kept University

Commercially sponsored research is putting at risk the paramount value of higher education—disinterested inquiry. Even more alarming, the authors argue, universities themselves are behaving more and more like for-profit companies.