Adam Harris
The Death of an Adjunct
Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.
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Clarence Fisher / Ayantee 1970 Yearbook / Ayantee ... The Day the National Guard Raided a Dorm in North Carolina
Violence in the spring of 1969 marred the commencement festivities for that year’s North Carolina A&T graduates. This year, they finally got to celebrate.
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Dmitry Rukhlenko / hdesignflux / Shutterstock / Arsh ... Burger King’s Dystopian Student-Debt Sweepstakes
The restaurant’s contest to pay off student loans is the latest offer to treat the idea of debt relief as a sweepstakes that only a lucky few can win.
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Yulia-Images / Getty The Education Scandal That's Bigger Than Varsity Blues
Rich kids are enrolled in college at three times the rate of poor kids.
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Cliff Owen / AP Elizabeth Warren Takes a Different Strategy to Court the Black Vote
The Massachusetts senator is betting big on higher-education funding.
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Chris Kindred The New Secession
Residents of the majority-white southeast corner of Baton Rouge want to make their own city, complete with its own schools, breaking away from the majority-black parts of town.
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Courtesy of Morehouse College What Happens When a Billionaire Swoops In to Solve the Student-Debt Crisis
A philanthropist surprised Morehouse College graduates at commencement by announcing he would pay off their student loans. But one person—even a very generous one—can only do so much.
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Kristoffer Tripplaar Why America Needs Its HBCUs
The president of Howard University argues that “it is a danger to the national interest to not invest in these institutions.”
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Ted S. Warren/ AP Can A State Unban Affirmative Action?
Washington State decided to let colleges use race in admissions decisions. But the public might change its mind.
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Paul Sancya / AP Kamala Harris’s Long-Shot Bid to Fix School Funding
The senator and presidential candidate says America needs to reform how it funds schools, but the details of any alternative approach are scant.
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Brooks Kraft / Getty Elizabeth Warren Wants College to Be Free
The Democratic presidential hopeful has proposed canceling outstanding loans and making public college tuition-free—and she has an idea for how to pay for it.
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Douglas Sacha / Getty The Disciplines Where No Black People Earn Ph.D.s
In more than a dozen academic fields—largely STEM related—not a single black student earned a doctoral degree in 2017.
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Rubberball / Nicole Hill / Getty When Medical Schools Become Less Diverse
Texas Tech recently announced it will no longer take race into account in admissions to its medical school—a move that might affect not only aspiring doctors, but many of their would-be patients as well.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump’s Redundant Executive Order on Campus Speech
The president’s much-anticipated directive doesn’t do much.
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Mary Altaffer / AP New York City High Schools’ Endless Segregation Problem
Seven black students were accepted to Stuyvesant High School this year. Five years ago, the number was exactly the same.
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Paul Bradbury / Getty One Way to Stop College-Admissions Insanity: Admit More Students
If selective colleges were less selective, there would be less incentive to cheat to get in.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Trump Administration Really Wants to Cut Education Funding. Congress Doesn’t.
For the third year in a row, lawmakers are expected to disregard the administration’s proposed budget.
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G. Merrill / Getty Where Have All the Men Without College Degrees Gone?
Economists are trying to understand the steady decline of non-college-educated men in the labor market.
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Joshua Lott / Getty Congress Might Finally Overhaul Higher Education
As the House and Senate prepare for hearings to update the law governing colleges, a new report lays out some guiding principles.
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Alicia Tatone The College-Affordability Crisis Is Uniting the 2020 Democratic Candidates
Well, sort of
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Joe Skipper / Reuters The Next Parkland Could Happen Anywhere
Schools are trying to bolster security, but they can only do so much to prevent another mass shooting.
