WATCH: Colleges Protest Tuition Hikes, Budget Cuts and Racial Discrimination (VIDEOS)

Growing tuition hikes. Increasing budget cuts. Rising racial tension in campuses during the so-called "post-racial" Age of Obama. It's been a very busy month for student activism in America's colleges -- and not just on March 4, when thousands of students took the streets, especially in California.

Here are some of the MUST-SEE videos of student protests.

 

Did your school hold a must-see rally or protest in the past month? Send us a video and a description.

Must-See College Protest Videos

Find a picture, click the participate button, add a title and upload your picture

1 of 8

Evergreen State

1 of 9

First Slide

Previous Slide

@

Dressed in black, students drive a symbolic coffin inscribed with R.I.P. Education through the town of Olympia. They then walk through the Senate Gallery, singing a parody of "Amazing Grace," until they are escorted out by State Patrol troopers and security guards.

FAMU Hazing Case: 2 Band Members Plead No Contest

gadgets/slideshows/27592/slide_27592_286066_small.jpg

Robert Fisher's Musical Commencement Speech To Belmont University

10 Wrong Assumptions Young People Make When Looking For A Summer Job

Employers Target Liberal Arts Majors And College Grads Who Had Internships: Survey

Fortune 500 CEOs: Which Universities Did They Get Their Degress From?

2012 College Grads Enter Improving Job Market

Dressed in black, students drive a symbolic coffin inscribed with R.I.P. Education through the town of Olympia. They then walk through the Senate Gallery, singing a parody of "Amazing Grace," until they are escorted out by State Patrol troopers and security guards.

comments(208)

Total comments: 208 | Post a Comment

1 of 9

Rate This Slide

Rank #2  |  Average: 4

Skip It Must See

• 
  1
• 
  2
• 
  3
• 
  4
• 
  5
• 
  6
• 
  7
• 
  8
• 
  9
• 
  10

Must-See College Protest Videos

loading...

Must-See College Protest Videos

UserName

 | Become a fan

Picked These as the Top 5 Slides in the Slideshow

loading...

Top User Slides

← Prev|Next →

 | Become a fan

Picked These as the Top 5 Slides in the Slideshow

loading...

Users who voted on this slide

← Prev|Next →

loading...

Comments

[land2341]

11:35 AM on 03/10/2010

Some of talking about how tuition costs keep rising and blaming government intervention are missing a key piece to the puzzle. Once upon a time colleges were largely non-profit - after the government started guaranteeing loans the free market people all stepped in. Most colleges are now run by MBAs and are run on a business model that was supposed to cut costs. It cut teacher salaries, it cut access to the technology so many of tout, it cut student services and still costs rose dramatically. Gee, wonder where all that money went?? Suddenly, we have administrators and vice-something or others out the whazoo raking in huge salaries and delivering nothing in return.

Make sure you are looking in the right direction when you pin blame.

[AirViceMarshalPark]

02:47 AM on 03/09/2010

Nearly 5000 dead in Iraq and Afghanistan, the second Great Depression and finally these Generation Y types get upset...about tuition increases.

We might have a real revolution if video games were taxed. The Trivial Generation tweets on into oblivion.

[sheoples]

06:38 PM on 03/16/2010

how can they know better when american k-12 ranks one of the worst in industrial nations.

[sheoples]

06:38 PM on 03/16/2010

politicians LOVE stupid electorates.........there's no plan to educate them anytime soon.....

[NotAlphaNotOmega]

01:57 AM on 03/21/2010

Some say a lack of a draft is a reason for the lack of protest... but yeah, the lack of interest is staggering.

[Martin Chuzzlewit]

07:33 AM on 03/08/2010

Like entitlement programs and public union contracts, nobody holds colleges and universities accountable. Their costs are outside the normal check-and-balance mechanism of market forces. They have no real competition.....no real pressure to excel or even maintain standards. The result is an increasingly dumbed down system that veers off into identity politics and irrelevant courses. Young people know that these schools have a monopoly in their industry, but these students need that diploma as an admission ticket to acceptance in the work place.

Speaking "truth to power" these days would be to wake-up this lazy, coddling group of former hippies who run this mess.

[Lefteris]

01:28 PM on 03/08/2010

Universities will lower tuition if 80% of the students leave, right now, for the following reason: "sorry, I can't afford it".

A few decades ago when government did not guarantee student loans, college education was dirt cheap. You could work for a summer and pay your tuition and then some.

Ever since colleges got a blank check from the government, they started raising tuition. Let's not forget that they also charge the outof state students (usually wealth foreigners) two or three times more.

At any rate, the governmen policy is: "No matter what the college asks, we'll guarantee it. It's good for votes".

[prettyinpink]

07:17 AM on 03/08/2010

You know, I still can't figure out why education costs continue to rise.

The technology to deliver the content surely should drive the costs down.

The curriculum changes in increments each year so the shelf-life of most of the content endures; ie, the portfolio of feature enhancement builds on an existing chassis.

Teacher productivity should be constantly improving as they mature, as they assimilate the established body of teaching knowledge, and as industry techniques improve.

Access to knowledge is rapidly increasing every year.

The same material is taught nation-wide for similar subjects for K-12 (actually roughly the same material is taught globally for pre-University).

The mediums for accessing the information are exploding so we can learn anywhere at any time with no loss of quality.

Teacher availability is global and not tethered to a geographic location.

In sum, every aspect of the industry screams downward cost pressure and upward quality opportunity.

Why is education the only major industry churning out lower quality at exponentially higher costs?

Unions and government control.

[Lefteris]

01:25 PM on 03/08/2010

Because universities:

a) have no competition (tuition is government guaranteed through guaranteed loans)

b) have no reason to reduce tuition (because no matter how much the tuition is, the government will guarantee student loans to pay it).

Clear enough?

Imagine how much food would cost if the governmen said "buy all the food you want and I'll guarantee loans".

[prettyinpink]

09:26 PM on 03/08/2010

Thanks for confirming what we all know to be the truth-that government intervention warps the market.

[Lefteris]

01:00 AM on 03/08/2010

You say

"They stopped investing in education, and invested in the prison and military industrial system. It's sad and depressing. "

you are absolutely right. In my siland in Greece we say "wherever you close down a school, you open up a prison". You know why such an enormous population in jail in the U.S.? Because of a huge system of entitlements that makes everyone just asking, asking, asking. Everybody has "rights", nobody has obligations. I'm thinking that a hyperinflation due to the huge deficit will do us some good. The criminals will leave (they'll be nothing left to steal), and the surviving population will get a little more serious.

"Universities...". What do you need them for? You got the internet, you got books, you got resources. Most graduates end up in Wall Street destroying the world while being completely incapable of any other job on the planet (unless they become bureaucrats or lawyers...)

[Lefteris]

12:28 AM on 03/08/2010

Well, the students say "everyone should pay their share". Ok, well, the workers and employees and professionals are all paying their share by paying higher taxes, having less income due to the crisis, and some of them even losing their homes.

Why are the students reacting to pay their share as well? Aren't they the ones who always support large government sectors? Well, here it is guys! The government is huge and can't balance its budget, and is asking for even more money. So, pay! Like the rest of us do. Didn't you want "equality"? Here it is.

[Immense]

10:55 AM on 03/07/2010

Post racial age of Obama? Don't make me laugh. Who comes up with this manipulative bullcrap? You'll know we're truly in a post racial age when the government itself stops demanding declarations of race on official forms and documents because the only reason that's ever necessary is to facilitate discrimination despite the blatant cock and bull stories faithfully given to convince the woefully naive and ignorant otherwise.

[MRb1000]

10:12 AM on 03/07/2010

This is the greeners! They were their in the battle in Seattle. I know them well. These are my peeps!

Yeah the gave us the EPA!

[RK2010]

09:32 AM on 03/07/2010

God bless them, I wish this had been carried accross the country to the east coast colleges!

[Stirner]

09:26 AM on 03/07/2010

Most Colleges and Universities have bloated budgets because they have a bloated parasitic class of bureaucrats (a.k.a. "Administrative Staff"). These folks neither teach nor learn, but dare to tell teachers how to teach and students how to learn. Check out the listing of these paper-shufflers, the Deans, Directors, Coaches, Vice-Presidents, and Public Relations "Officers", and all the others now crowded into your local institution. Makes the tax-fed folks living in the D.C. Beltway look good. Now, to keep the drones alive, students are being punished -- just as the tax-payers are. Our local outfit even has, get this, an "Assistant Sports Information Director" -- who comes equipped with an office and a staff! Nothing whatsoever to do with education. Pathetic.

[land2341]

11:37 AM on 03/10/2010

True dat! Look at when this happened. The people swearing this is what happens when gov't interferes are missing that the problem came when the free market MBAs started taking over colleges.

[BrotherOrchid]

09:26 AM on 03/07/2010

America, and Americans have turned a corner on the race issue, I am a hardcore Black Power advocate, and even I can see the change, . . .no small "minority" of racists can turn back the clock, we are (at last) becoming "One Nation" under God. . . . . . FOWARD EVER. . .BACKWARDS NEVER !!!

[lemondade]

09:25 AM on 03/07/2010

THANK GOD THERE ARE SOME YOUNG PEOPLE BRAVE ENOUGH TO STEP OUT OF THE HERD OF SHEEP AND BE LIONS ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT AND NOT RIGHT. GOD BLESS THEM.

JESUS COMPARED MANKIND TO SHEEP BECAUSE SHEEP ARE NOT ABLE TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES; THAT IS WHY THEY HAVE TO HAVE A SHEPHERD TO WATCH OVER THE HERD OR FLOCK. SHEEP ARE NOT ABLE TO TELL WHAT IS A POISONOUS PLANT AND CAN DIE FROM THE EATING OF HARMFUL THINGS. SHEEP DO NOT KNOW HOW TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES ON THEIR OWN; THEY OFTEN WANDER OFF AND GET LOST. THEY OFTEN, IN COLD WEATHER STATES, WILL GET FROST-BITTEN BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO COME OUT OF THE COLD. THEY CANNOT HELP THEMSELVES OR OTHERS.

[corwin]

03:35 PM on 03/07/2010

Strangely -or perhaps not-I don't recall the 'sheep' lecture by Jesus. COuld you please give a little info on where thios might be found? And,may I give a helpful hint? It's unlikely to be in the Old Testament.

[zeppelingirl89]

04:27 PM on 03/07/2010

Using all caps discredits whatever you had to say.

[Labsaregreat]

09:21 AM on 03/07/2010

funny when my tuition went up, I worked more hours at my job, I had during college. Boy have times changed

[BrotherOrchid]

09:32 AM on 03/07/2010

Yes, times have changed. . . .(read the news).

[Labsaregreat]

09:44 AM on 03/07/2010

i read the news every day my friend

[US1st2009]

11:45 AM on 03/07/2010

what was the real unemployment rate when you went to college? how many trillions went to bail out bankers when you went to college? how much did halliburton make in no bid war contracts when you were in college?

today, students WITH degrees are competing with many high skilled unemployed workers. how was it in your day?

[Labsaregreat]

12:06 PM on 03/08/2010

actually i went to college in early 80's so pretty much the same as it is now maybe a little worse then now
your other questions dont make any sense in this debate... my position is if you want it work a little harder and pay for it
my understanding is that the unemployment rate for college educated is around 5%

[US1st2009]

08:14 AM on 03/07/2010

the Evergreen State narrator makes me proud of our youth and proud to be an American.

we can only hope that students across the country rise up against the corpor-aristocracy.

Income Inequality: Top 400 U.S. Earners See Income Rise 476% In Last 15 Years

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/05/income-inequality-top-400_n_487878.html

[hooktender]

07:50 AM on 03/07/2010

I don't blame them a bit. I feel like joining them. Cutting education is like eating the seed corn.