Hundreds protest over grand jury ruling in Breonna Taylor killing

Hundreds took to the streets Wednesday to protest the grand jury ruling in the police killing of Breonna Taylor.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg lies in repose at Supreme Court

Former Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lied in repose Thursday on the steps of the Supreme Court, where she served since 1993.
Knife chase near GW Hospital ends with arrest

A pregnant woman was arrested at the GW Hospital Tuesday after chasing another woman with a knife, according to a Metropolitan Police Department report.

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articles from Inside Higher Ed

Live Updates: Latest News on Coronavirus and Higher Education

Florida May Protect Partying Students Sept. 25, 6:25 a.m. Florida governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, said the state could create a “bill of […]
Will the pandemic lead to more competition for transfer students, or stronger partnerships for the transfer process?

Colleges were placing more emphasis on transfer partnerships long before the COVID-19 pandemic began this past spring. The high school population is […]
Oxford experiments with affirmative action in Ph.D. admissions

Tutors at the University of Oxford will examine information on the socioeconomic background of applicants for several Ph.D. programs as part of a […]

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articles from the Chronicle of Higher Ed

Have College Students Spread Covid-19 Beyond Their Campuses? It May Be Too Early to Tell

Public-health officials say they have not yet seen evidence of the surge in community spread that they feared.
These Colleges Are Winning the Fight Against Covid-19 — at Least for Now

"Massive testing," campus buy-in, and a quick response to outbreaks have helped some institutions keep their case numbers low.
The Syllabus Reads You

Our pedagogies cannot be divorced from our working conditions.

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from the New York Times

A Girl Wanted to Try Out for Boys’ Tennis. Ginsburg Helped Make It Happen.

In the early 1970s, a law professor named Ruth Bader Ginsburg took on a case that paved the way for a 15-year-old girl in New Jersey to play on a boys’ high school team.
Young People Are Spreading the Virus

And New York City is still struggling with the logistics of its hybrid reopening.
This Is the Casual Racism That I Face at My Elite High School

Unexpectedly, the school did something about it.

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articles from the Washington Post

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the case of the 13-year-old girl strip-searched at school

She had an important influence in education, supporting sex equality, desegregation, etc.

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The Undercommons

Battling with the University for the University: Organizing, Friendship, and Performativity in the NYU Sanctuary Movement

[Photo: Ryan Quan from NYU News] by James McMaster and Olivia Michiko Gagnon What follows is not an account of escalating strategies and spectacular confrontations. That can be found in the news. Consider this a fragmentary homage to and audit of the ideological and intimate micropolitics of […]
Join us for our first open online strategy session March 25, 3:45pm EST

All those who struggle within, against and beyond the neoliberal, neocolonial university are invited to join us on March 25 (15:45-17:15 EST) for a special online/offline strategy session, broadcasting live from the Organizing Equality conference in London, Ontario. This session aims to share and […]
CFP: From Sanctuary to Sabotage: Fighting the Fascist Creep at and beyond Universities

CALL FOR PROVOCATIONS (April 30, 2017) The 2016 US election has been framed as both a decisive break from “politics as usual” and as a continuation and intensification of longstanding racialized, gendered, and sexualized global class warfare. In this allegedly post-truth era, the university […]