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He Wants to Go Into Politics Someday. Trump Admin Cuts Just Got in the Way
"For them to close down all these programs, that essentially told me that I wasn't cared about.”
By Sierra Lyons
How The Trump Admin's Attack on Higher Education and DEI Are Impacting Campuses
Several colleges throughout the United States have eliminated funding, offices, and even staff associated with "DEI" — inspired in part by the Trump administration’s bluster.
By Mary Retta
Texas A&M University Removes Dean After Viral Video Depicting Trans-Inclusive Education
A student brought up “our president’s laws” and their own religious beliefs in a classroom argument.
By Abby Monteil
How Yellow Buses Became a Fight in Ohio’s Private Charter Schools Wars
Students say they’ve seen tasers, knives, and guns on public buses.
By Cristina Tinsley
How Congress Quietly Made It Nearly Impossible for Borrowers to Escape Their Student Loans
The story begins in the 1970s.
By Jillian Berman
What It Feels Like to Graduate College As an Undocumented Student
It doesn’t matter that I am a “good” immigrant graduating cum laude.
By Cristina Jiménez Moreta
Students Are Protesting For Palestine — And Being Punished — At Graduations
“There was just never any point where I was not going to say something,” one punished student told their student paper.
By Lex McMenamin
How the Trump Administration Is Leaving Disabled College Students Behind
Disabled students already have to fight just to get basic accommodations.
By Mia Ives-Rublee
I Went to a Moms for Liberty Convention. Here’s What I Saw.
Everyone seemed to be trying to make a buck.
By Katherine Stewart
UVA Tried To Shut Down Its Historical Tours Discussing Slavery. These Students Resisted.
A conservative alumni group took issue with the discussion of difficult parts of UVA’s history.
By Sophie Hayssen
Some Students Are Using ChatGPT to Text Their Own Friends
9 college students share how they use Chat.
By Lucy Anderson
Trump Is Driving International Students Away from U.S. Universities. That's a Big Problem.
“I just don't feel safe going to the U.S. right now.”
By Jeffrey R. Young
'I Need My Lawyer’s Number Written on My Body': International Students Are Preparing for the Worst
Students are terrified of retaliation from the Trump administration.
By Anvee Bhutani
The Trump Admin Is Going After People Who’ve Defaulted on Federal Student Loans
They could seize wages and tax refunds.
By Nadra Nittle, The 19th
Attacks on DEI Programs Are Making Students Rethink Their College Choices
“Without [this scholarship], I would not have gone to school in Ohio."
By Student Basic Needs Coalition
We Took on Book Bans in Our Small Conservative Community — and Won
The documentary Banned Together tells the story of three high school activists in South Carolina.
By Elizabeth Foster
How Teachers Are Putting Themselves on the Line to Protect Immigrant Students
“We didn’t sign up to serve as shields, but this moment is demanding that we step up.”
By Alejandra Gonzalez Rizo and Daniela Silva
Meet the College Seniors Who’ve Had Their Dreams Upended by Elon Musk
They dreamed of working in public service. Now some of the agencies they wanted to work for don’t exist.
By Franzi Wild
Foster Kids Are Too Often Forced to Take Psychotropic Drugs to Manage Their Behavior
“I was shuffled between different homes and facilities where psychotropic drugs were the norm.”
By Khi’Marria Richardson