MONTREAL — Student groups in Quebec have filed a legal motion against a provincial law aimed at ending more than three months of protests over p...
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.04.2012
Kent State is America's Tiananmen Square. The photo of a young girl kneeling over the body of a dead student is etched on our collective retinas. But all these years later, it is still hard to comprehend. There is no resolution of this tragedy.
Ethan Miller | Posted 04.27.2012
How can we keep both our university administrations and these large corporations in check and help fix some of the problems that subcontracting causes?
Emily Spencer | Posted 05.29.2012
During the fall and winter months of the 2011-12 school year, Occupy Ohio State students picked up a teach-in technique, similar to that of the 1960s teach-ins, in order to hold and expand their activist base.
Madeline Carey | Posted 05.28.2012
The change that I am calling for, however, is a very significant one. Invisible Children has recently launched a new campaign to aid the people of Uganda and their surrounding countries to put a stop to the terror that Joseph Kony is imposing on the African people.
Becky Hayes | Posted 05.28.2012
With students focusing on other aspects of college life, it looks like that fight-for-a-cause activism has burned out. If we chose to unite on a single issue that affects a large percentage of the student body, we would have much more success in actually making a difference.
Ethan Miller | Posted 05.28.2012
So what causes professors who have advanced degrees to be paid poverty wages while students go into thousands of dollars of debt to pay for school? A lot of this comes from the increasing corporatization of colleges and universities, a trend that was started in the late 20th century and has continued since.
Posted 03.23.2012
Thursday at 12:30 p.m., hundreds of Carol City High students walked out in support of their former classmate Trayvon Martin, who attended the school a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.16.2012
Students at the University of Rochester are upset with a professor who defended radio host Rush Limbaugh for calling Georgetown University Law student...
Matthis Chiroux | Posted 05.12.2012
Anai Rosales, 18; Veronica Mandujano, 18; and Kayla Ely, 17, have been starving themselves since Wednesday, March 7 on a hunger-strike to protest sweeping school budget cuts they say would effectively, "kill [their] school."
Bob Ostertag | Posted 05.13.2012
Why is it that every time an administrator from the University of California opens their mouth about social protest they immediately insert their feet...
HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.02.2012
NEW YORK -- Hillary Dworkoski thinks it's ridiculous that there's a Chick-fil-A located on New York University's campus. Dworkoski, a freshman at N...
HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.01.2012
NEW YORK -- Thousands of U.S. college students will walk out of class Thursday in a coordinated day of protest against what may be another year of sig...
The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 02.28.2012
Twenty students at the University of Virginia Charlottesville campus are on a hunger strike protesting the low wages paid to hourly employees in the u...
AP | Posted 02.05.2012
ATHENS, Greece -- Several hundred anarchists clashed with riot police outside Parliament, where Greek lawmakers were debating the 2012 budget before a...
Jack Rothman | Posted 12.05.2011
I spent Sunday afternoon at the Occupy Los Angeles encampment on the south lawn of City Hall. For a new and inexperienced group, there was more organizational acumen in evidence than I would have expected.
Maritza Stanchich, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
More than 150 students practicing civil disobedience have been arrested in Puerto Rico and riot police on Thursday escalated violent repression of a university strike with brutal arrests and rubber bullets.
Posted 05.25.2011
Fifty Rhode Island high school students walked out in protest earlier this week -- to demand the administration include their voices in the effort to ...
Moriel Rothman | Posted 05.25.2011
Last Tuesday, forty students gathered in opposition to the occupation in the West Bank. Because there is nothing more pro-Israel, nor more fundamentally Jewish, than raising your voice in support of peace.
Angus Johnston | Posted 05.25.2011
For nearly two years now, the University of California has been criminalizing peaceful student protest.
Angus Johnston | Posted 05.25.2011
Gladwell is right that strong-tie relationships were a crucial part of the Civil Rights Movement. But he misses the fact that all ties start as weak ties, and that weak-tie online relationships have spurred action too.
Mark T. Harris | Posted 05.25.2011
The recent student-led demonstrations across California and nearly 30 other state campuses for affordable public education offer a glimpse into what might become a future trend in American politics.
Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011
About 300 students at Dundee-Crown High School in Carpentersville picketed today to protest planned teacher layoffs and budget cuts. The protest occu...
HuffPost Citizen Reporting | Nick Weingartner | Posted 05.25.2011
Produced by HuffPost's College Reporting Team There's something strange going on in Pennsylvania. As the fire of student protest and activism burns ...
HuffPost Citizen Reporting | Andrew Katz | Posted 05.25.2011
Like thousands of their peers across the country, students at the University of Maryland, College Park are struggling to weather rising costs and dwin...
AP | Posted 05.26.2012