When Attending College Means Losing Your Home
Co-published with The Progressive. Nearly 60 percent of college students report struggling to access basic necessities, including food and housing. A national program is providing emergency funds to …
The Secret Lives Of Adjunct Professors
Co-published with ELLE. My students saw me as their role model—the put-together adult. The truth? I was barely getting by.
Texas Draws Criticism With Plan to Lure Tourists to Sites Where Indigenous People Were Banished
Co-published with the Texas Observer and The Guardian. Nations once exterminated or displaced are now being asked to help bring in tourism dollars.
Community College Enrollment Plunges During COVID-19 Pandemic
Co-published with Teen Vogue. These institutions have long offered students an affordable, flexible way to earn a college degree.
COVID Cleaned Out North Carolina’s College Campuses. That Has Electoral Consequences.
Co-published with The Week and Yahoo News. In August, North Carolina's colleges were cleaned out after a surge of COVID-19 cases, creating a diaspora of young …
Trafficking in Teachers
Co-published with Oxford American. Filipino teachers, hired to fill historic shortages in the South and elsewhere, fight their exploitation by opportunistic recruiters.
Professor Precarious: Adjuncts in the Time of COVID
Co-published with Believer Magazine. Adjunct professors, most with no health benefits or job security, fear a new level of vulnerability during the pandemic.
Stop Pretending Schools Can Open Safely
Co-published with the Washington Post. Making teachers get sick can’t be an option.
How We Can Truly Repay Our Frontline Health Workers: Clear Their Debts
Co-published with The Guardian. Many of the workers risking their lives amid the pandemic are burdened with student debt. We owe them more than just applause.
What Billionaires Don’t Understand About College Debt
Co-published with The New York Times. Forget big donations. Go for structural reforms.
I’m Drowning In $120K Of Student Debt And I’m Suing Betsy DeVos To Make Her Fix That
Co-published with HuffPost. I will force America's billionaire education secretary to finally follow the law.
A Bigger Scandal at Colleges — Underpaid Professors
Co-published with The Boston Globe. Why are we not distraught by the ordinary scandal of adjunct mania at universities?