Campus Politics
Power, identity, and speech in the new American university
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Adrees Latif / Reuters Free-Speech Advocates Are Not Trying to Silence Students
A recurring falsehood in the ongoing debate about campus culture, politics, and policy
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Adrees Latif / Reuters The Re-Politicization of America's Colleges
A new survey shows that students feel much more engaged and open to activism than they were in the past.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters The Cost of Balancing Academia and Racism
Researchers say that discrimination at colleges and universities may have negative impacts on black students’ mental health.
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Oberlin Students and Alumni Reflect on Activism at the College
Last week, I asked Oberlin insiders to help explain a protest at the Ohio liberal-arts college. A small group of…
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Tony Dejak / AP The Value of the Oberlin Food Protests
Dining-hall food might not be the most pressing injustice in the world—but students need space to experiment with activism.
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Darren Ornitz / Reuters Does Affirmative Action Create Mismatches Between Students and Universities?
The debate over ‘mismatch theory’ is needlessly polarized—and further research will help students, whatever the answers it generates.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters The Lessons of Bygone Free-Speech Fights
Efforts to police offensive language have seldom achieved their goals, and often been turned against the groups they were intended to protect.
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Jeff Roberson / AP The Necessary Recklessness of Campus Protests
Progress against racial injustice is stagnant, yet the demands of student activists are still widely dismissed.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Crumbling Monuments of the Age of Marble
The 20th century produced monuments to a false consensus—can the 21st century create a more representative commemorative sphere?
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Campus Politics and the Campaign Against Ivy League Traditionalism
Students are forcing elite colleges to adapt to changing times—and it is, ever so slowly, working.
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James G. Milles / Flickr When One Student's Art Is Another's Aggression
A black student posted “White Only” signs on water fountains to highlight systemic racism—and provoked an uproar.
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Danny Fowler / Flickr How Talking to Undergraduates Changed My Mind
What I learned from attending a town-hall meeting and listening to students’ concerns
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AP The Racist Legacy of Woodrow Wilson
Students at Princeton University are protesting the ways it honors the former president, who once threw a civil-rights leader out of the White House.
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Woodrow Wilson and the Problem of Civic Plunder
Last week MSNBC host, and former Congressman, Joe Scarborough seemed shocked that Princeton students would object to having numerous buildings…
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thurdl01 / Flickr Brown University's $100 Million Inclusivity Plan
The ambitious effort that could transform the institution and inform how other campuses respond to student protests.
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Bebeto Matthews / AP Being Muslim on Campus
In the wake of terrorism, the burdens of Islamophobia fall especially hard on students.
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Is Oxy's President Next?
Occidental College is the latest campus to join the domino effect of students calling for the firing of top administrators…
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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters Do Historically Black Colleges Provide the Safe Spaces Students Are After?
Predominantly white institutions have made themselves attractive to minority students but haven’t succeeded in making themselves inclusive.
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Redjar / Flickr The Illiberal Demands of the Amherst Uprising
Fighting racism doesn’t require censoring critics.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Yale's Activists Deserve Constructive Criticism
Intellectual allies have defended the students against unfair attacks, but haven’t helped them reflect on their biggest mistakes.
