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Education

Taking the Sad Measure of the “Better FAFSA” Fiasco

Financial aid maven Kim Nauer in conversation at the Center for New York City Affairs

July 2, 2024 • by Center for New York City Affairs and Kim Nauer

It looks like far fewer students will be going to college this year thanks to the Education Department’s FAFSA fiasco....

Taking the Sad Measure of the “Better FAFSA” Fiasco

Education

The Post-Brown Realignment and the Structure of Partitioned Publics

Public schools are crucial infrastructures in the reproduction of social inequality

June 12, 2024 • by Ujju Aggarwal

Public schools are crucial infrastructures of the reproduction of social inequality and the US carceral state. ...

The Post-<em>Brown</em> Realignment and the Structure of Partitioned Publics

Film & Performing Arts

The Transformations of Katherine Dunham

The dance pioneer’s contributions to postmodern anthropology

June 11, 2024 • by Megan Robinson

The possibilities open to an anthropologist engaging with her fieldwork in a creative way is what drew me to the Dunham Technique in the first place....

Podcast

Write Like a Man

Episode 54: Ronnie Grinberg on her new book, Write Like a Man

May 14, 2024 • by Claire Potter

In Episode 54 of Why Now?, host Claire Potter interviews Ronnie Grinberg about her new book, Write Like a Man....

Economy

Columbia University’s “Crisis”

A political economy sketch map

May 3, 2024 • by Adam Tooze

Questions of political economy are at the heart of the Columbia University protests....

Middle East & North Africa

From the River to the Sea, There Is Space for Many Different Interpretations

Labeling the slogan “antisemitic” is a powerful tool used by Israel to deny the existence of the Palestinian people

April 9, 2024 • by Alon Confino and Amos Goldberg

It is often maintained that the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” expresses a genocidal and antisemitic intention. But this is generally not the case....

From the River to the Sea, There Is Space for Many Different Interpretations

Higher Ed

The Cyclopes in the Food Court

Or, how to get your students to go to their Gen Ed classes

February 6, 2024 • by Daniel H. Foster

As chair of liberal arts at Johns Hopkins’ Peabody Institute, every autumn orientation I tell the incoming students this tale of Cyclopean narrow-mindedness in order to plant a memorable image in their minds of what to avoid....

Education

It Was Supposed to Make Getting College Aid Simpler. It Hasn’t.

An Urban Matters Q&A with financial aid author Kim Nauer about the FAFSA’s botched rollout

February 6, 2024 • by Center for New York City Affairs and Kim Nauer

Experts speaking at a recent webinar co-hosted by Immigrants Rising stated the FAFSA is “absolutely not working” for mixed-status families. “We’re talking about millions of individuals who are college-age,” noted the organization’s director of higher education....

It Was Supposed to Make Getting College Aid Simpler. It Hasn’t.

Education

Silencing Teachers in Yemen

How the Houthi threaten the future of a civil society

January 9, 2024 • by Abdulgaleel Ahmed

As the Houthi replaced the internationally recognized government of Yemen, dismissing it predictably as illegitimate and manipulated by Western forces, they dismantled the nation’s academic institutions, imposing a coercive educational regime with an ideologically-driven curriculum on instructors at every level, from primary schools to universities....

Education

The Humanities As a Theory of Change

The career of Ruth Simmons is a lesson in humanities methodology

November 14, 2023 • by Antoinette Burton

At a moment when state auditors are scrutinizing higher education budgets with an eye to trimming humanities majors and offerings out of existence, we’d do well to pause and reflect on the career of the distinguished educator Ruth Simmons....

Podcast

The Reality of Desire

In this episode, feminist sex educator, filmmaker and podcast host Tristan Taormino discusses her new memoir, “A Part of the Heart Can’t Be Eaten”

September 6, 2023 • by Claire Potter

In this episode of Why Now?, feminist sex educator, filmmaker and podcast host Tristan Taormino discusses her new memoir, "A Part of the Heart Can't Be Eaten"...

Philosophy

When Words Lose Their Meaning

When the terms used to describe key concepts go viral, they get used in new ways

May 15, 2023 • by Harold James

A series of improperly priced terms are used in current political debate: capitalism, socialism, democracy, imperialism, multilateralism, geopolitics, populism, technocracy, globalism, globalization, and neoliberalism. They have become the standard munition that is fired between the sides in today’s culture, policy, and economic wars....