Inequality

2019

• Admissions Scandal Probe Hasn't Ended Colleges' Unfair Policies (LAT 8/7/19)
• Rural Areas Lag in Degree Attainment While Urban Areas Feature Big Racial Gaps (IHE 6/27/19)
• We Don’t Need a Scapegoat to Talk about Values in Higher Education (Academe Blog 5/3/19)
• 3 Takeaways From a New Survey on Administrative Pay (CHE 4/24/19)
• Report Finds Out-of-State Student Recruitment Racially, Socioeconomically Biased (Daily Bruin 4/22/19)
• Catholic Hospital Chain Dignity Health Defends its UC Deal — With a Lie (LAT 4/19/19)
• ‘It’s an Aristocracy’: What the Admissions-Bribery Scandal Has Exposed About Class on Campus (CHE 4/17/19)
• New Revelations Link Donations and Admissions at UCLA (IHE 4/15/19)
• UCLA Knew of a Cash-for-admissions Deal, Years Before the Scandal (LAT 4/12/19)
• UC’s Deal With Catholic Hospitals Threatens the Health of Women and LGBTQ Patients (LAT 4/12/19)
• Privilege, Guilt, Responsibility, and Contingent Labor (IHE 4/11/19)
• Public Universities Work Hard to Make Up for Budget Cuts. But In-State Students May Be Paying the Price. (CHE 3/26/19)
• Just Miles From USC and the Admissions Scandal, These Students Sell Food for College Money (LAT 3/15/19)
• A Modest(y) Proposal (AAUP 3/10/19)
• This Is Higher Education’s Gilded Age (CHE 2/3/19)

2018

• Student Debt Cancellation: It’s Actually Good (Law and Political Economy 11/21/18)
• Wait, Is Bloomberg’s $1.8-Billion Donation to Johns Hopkins a Good Thing? (CHE 11/19/18)
• Cal State System Sees Record Increases in Graduation Rates (IHE 11/9/18)
• Growing Number of Public Universities Have Become Less Affordable (IHE 10/31/18)
• Black Colleges Have to Pay More for Loans Than Other Schools (The Atlantic 8/22/18)
• Student Debt Is Worse for Women (CHE 8/20/18)
• Yes, College Is ‘Worth It,’ One Researcher Says. It’s Just Worth More if You’re Rich. (CHE 5/17/18)
• Report Finds Parent PLUS Loans Worsen Outcomes for Poorest Families, Urges Policy Reforms (IHE 5/15/18)
• "A Nation at Risk" and the Re-Segregation of Schools (IHE 5/4/18)
• America's Declining Investment in Higher Education (The Atlantic 5/3/18)
• Response to 60 Minutes (Office of the President 5/1/18)
• Colleges Recruit at Richer, Whiter High Schools (NYT 4/13/18)
• Not just song... (Cloudminder 4/5/18)
• What It’s Like to Be a Woman in the Academy (CHE 3/18)
• The Racial Implications of California's Proposed Online University (IHE 3/20/18)
• 3 Million Americans Live in Higher Education Deserts (IHE 2/2/18)

2017

• The New Tax on Harvard (Politico 12/22/17)
• Are Campus Conservatives Besieged? Not in Wisconsin (Academe Blog 11/6/17)
• The Scary Stats on Contingency in Higher Education (Academe Blog 10/31/17)
• How Rich Universities Get Richer (CHE 10/27/17)
• Report Criticizes Public Universities for Catering to Wealthy Students (IHE 10/26/17)
• Even With Affirmative Action, Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges Than 35 Years Ago (NYT 8/24/17)
• Outside of Elite Colleges, Affirmative Action Is Already Disappearing (Slate 8/3/17)
• Wait, Will Anyone Investigate Legacy Admissions? (CHE 8/3/17)
• Justice Department Will Seek to Sue Colleges Over Affirmative Action (IHE 8/2/17)
• Women’s College vs. Women Workers (Jacobin 7/13/17)
• Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country. Why? (CHE 7/10/17)
• Is Janet Napolitano Deepening Economic Inequality at the University of California? (Salon 6/11/17)
• Inequality University (Jacobin 5/22/17)
• The Hoax That Failed, or Skeptics Who Aren’t Very Skeptical (Academe Blog 5/20/17)
• Why Are Democrats Fighting Over Free College? (New Republic 3/29/17)
• Federal Higher-Ed Tax Breaks Now Exceed Cost of Grants for Lower-Income Students (Hechinger Report 2/23/17)
• Gender Pay Gap Persists for Higher Education Administrators (IHE 2/15/17)
• Do Recent Student Demonstrations Signal a New Trend in Activism? (IHE 2/7/17)
• America’s Great Working-Class Colleges (NYT 1/18/17)
• Equity, Interrupted: How California is Cheating Its Future (Academe Blog 1/12/17)

2016

• College Presidents Call for Continuation of Obama Administration Program Protecting Undocumented Students (IHE 11/21/16)
• Walls or Bridges (Cloudminder 11/10/16)
• New Analysis Shows Gaps Between Humanities Ph.D.s and Others with Doctorates (IHE 10/31/16)
• Academia, Love Me Back (Tiffany Martinez 10/27/16)
• Life in Academic Poverty as an Underpaid University Teacher (Salon 9/24/16)
• Student Demands Equal Pay for Full-Time and Student Workers (Daily Bruin 8/21/16)
• Public Colleges Chase Out-of-State Students, and Tuition (NYT 7/7/16)
• A Family-Friendly Policy That’s Friendliest to Male Professors (NYT 6/24/16)
• Title IX (CHE 6/4/16)
• The Education System Is Rigged Against Low-Income Students, Even In Kindergarten (Huff Po 5/26/16)
• New Proposals to Combat Food Insecurity on Campuses (Wisconsin Hope Lab 5/19/16)
• Programs Have Success Helping Low-Income Students Graduate (IHE 2/8/16)
• Troubles at Yale: An Exchange (NYRB 2/16)
• Obama Comments to Southern U Student Set Off Debate on President and Black Colleges (IHE 1/18/16)
• College Degree Gap Grows Wider Between Whites, Blacks and Latinos (Hechinger Report 1/7/16)

2015

• Video DC on Higher Ed and Minority Students (Cloudminder 11/29/15)
• Campus Equity Week About Inequality in America's High Education System (San Diego Free Press 10/26/15)
• Teaching While Poor: Adjunct Professors and the Fight for Fair Wages (The Nation 10/26/15)
• Report Sees Bias Against Women at UCLA B-School (IHE 10/12/15)
• Women Faculty Face Bias at UCLA Business School, Study Says (LAT 10/8/15)
• How to Help the Students With No Homes? (CHE 8/24/15)
• How a Little-Known Education Office Has Forced Far-Reaching Changes to Campus Sex Assault Investigations (LAT 8/17/15)
• Racial Wealth Gap Persists Despite Degree, Study Says (NYT 8/16/15)
• A University Divided: Separate and Unequal (Changing Universities 7/9/15)
• Free Public Higher Ed Goes Viral (Changing Universities 6/9/15)
• Barnard College, After Much Discussion, Decides to Accept Transgender Women (NYT 6/4/15)
• For the Poor, the Graduation Gap Is Even Wider Than the Enrollment Gap (NYT 6/2/15)
• My Title IX Inquisition (CHE 5/29/15)
• Report Blasts 'Fantasy World' of Presidential Benefits (IHE 5/22/15)
• As Rich Universities Get Richer, Are Poor Students Being Left Behind? (IHE 5/21/15)
• Students Accused of Sexual Assault Struggle to Win Gender Bias Lawsuits (IHE 5/1/15)
• Wealth Gap Between Richest Colleges and Others Is Expected to Grow (CHE 4/16/15)
• Ivy League Stiffs Its Female Profs (Daily Beast 4/9/15)
• Why is So Much of the Discussion of Higher Ed driven by Elite Institutions? (Crooked Timber 3/26/15)
• One Speaker's Thoughts on Campus Litigation, Free Speech and Hostile Environments (Huff Po 3/15/15)
• UNC Board Kills 3 Centers Amid Criticism that the Action Violates Academic Freedom (IHE 3/2/15)
• UNC Professors Criticize Move to Close Poverty Center (IHE 2/23/15)
• Sanctions Put Academic Freedoms to a Test on a Campus Far From Tehran (NYT 2/22/15)
• Is the UC Spin Spinning Out of Control? (Changing Universities 2/20/15)
• Ideology Seen as Factor in Closings in University of North Carolina System (NYT 2/19/15)
• UNC Board Panel Wants to Shut Down Center on Poverty Led by Faculty Member who Criticizes Conservatives (IHE 2/19/15)
• Study Suggests Insular Faculty Hiring Practices in Elite Departments (IHE 2/13/15)
• Ratings and Free Community College are Wrong Way to End Inequality (IHE 2/13/15)
• UC Latino Demographics (UCLAFA 2/12/15)
• Harvard and M.I.T. Are Sued Over Lack of Closed Captions (NYT 2/11/15)
• Berkeley Tries to Track and Address Salary Gaps Among Professors (IHE 2/6/15)
• The College Completion Gap Between Rich And Poor Students Has Doubled, Study Says (Huff Po 2/3/15)
• Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016 (LAT 1/19/15)
• Report Details Microaggressions on Campuses for Students of Color and Women (IHE 1/8/15)

2014

• For Recent Black College Graduates, a Tougher Road to Employment (NYT 12/24/14)
• Working-Class Students Shun Top Universities, Says Study (Guardian 11/12/14)
• Senate’s Funding Proposal Places Burden on UC Students (Daily Bruin 12/8/14)
• On the Democrats' Education Plan, Part 2: Resegregation (Reclaim UC 12/3/14)
• UNC Officials Failed To Stop 18-Year Long Student Athlete Academic Fraud (Huff Po 10/22/14)
• Key Inequality Measure The Highest Since The Great Depression (Huff Po 10/14/14)
• Why Government Spends More Per Pupil at Elite Universities Than at Public Universities (Huff Po 10/13/14)
• Writing About Sexism in Academia Hurts (Vitae 10/9/14)
• Are STEM Fields More Gender-Balanced Than Non-STEM Fields in Ph.D. Production? (IHE 10/1/14)
• Generation Later, Poor Are Still Rare at Elite Colleges (NYT 8/25/14)
• Study Raises Questions About Why Women Are Less Likely than Men to Earn Tenure at Research Universities (IHE 8/18/14)
• Is US Academic Freedom a Casualty of the Israeli-Palestinian Debate? (LAT 8/11/14)
• Power and Income Inequality in the UC System and Beyond (Changing Universities 7/29/14)
• UC System Reconsiders Policy Barring Discrimination Against Non-American Researchers (IHE 7/16/14)
• The Disparity between Male and Female Wages (Cloudminder 7/8/14)
• UCLA's Anderson School Has a Major Woman Problem (Bloomberg 6/6/14)
• Fostering Gender Equity on STEM Faculties Is Not My Job, Some Officials Say (CHE 6/6/14)
• Gender Bias Alleged at UCLA's Anderson Business School (Wall Street Journal 6/4/14)
• Rebecca Solnit, #YesAllWomen Changes the Story (Tom Dispatch 6/1/14)
• 60 Years After Brown v. BOE, Mostly White Reformers Try To Fix 'The Civil Rights Issue Of Our Generation' (HuffPo 5/17/14)
• School Segregation Across The Country Proves Students Are Still Separate (HuffPo 5/15/14)
• Who Gets to Graduate? (NYT 5/15/14)
• Is Closing of Gender Studies Center a Coincidence? (IHE 5/14/14)
• Texas' Top 10% Plan May Just be Shifting Elite Students from Private to Public Colleges (CHE 4/22/14)
• California Colleges May be in Violation of Title IX (IHE 4/22/14)
• Brown Students and Workers Unite to Convince the University to Boycott an Exploitative Hotel (The Nation 4/7/14)
• Wealth Over Work (NYT 3/23/14)
• U.S. schools plagued by inequality along racial lines, study finds (LAT 3/21/14)
• Lowered Cites (CHE 3/17/14)
• Poorer Families are Bearing the Brunt of College Price Hikes (Hechinger Report 3/9/14)
• The Real Poverty Trap (NYT 3/4/14)
• College, the Great Unleveler (NYT 3/1/14)
• Colorblind Notion Aside, Colleges Grapple With Racial Tension (NYT 2/24/14)
• Protest Breaks Out At The Guggenheim In New York Over 'Slave Labor' (HuffPo 2/24/14)
• Teachers & Children Last: California Trial Showcases the Corporate War on Public Education (FDL 2/19/14)
• Stay Classy, Greg: Mankiw on What the Rich Deserve, and Why They Deserve It (Naked Capitalism 2/19/14)
• UCLA Law Students of Color Sound an Alarm (The Nation 2/13/14)
• Is 'Undermatching' Overrated? (IHE 2/10/14)
• The Middle Class Is Steadily Eroding. Just Ask the Business World. (NYT 2/2/14)
• Ultimatum on King Day (IHE 1/21/14)

2013

• College Recruiters Give Low-Income Public Campuses Fewer Visits (LAT 12/27/13)
• Sorry, Neoliberals: Inequality is Driven by Greed, not Technology (Salon 11/30/13)
• Outrage at San Jose State (IHE 11/22/13)
• Arne Duncan Doubles Down On “White Suburban Moms” Comment, Promotes Economic Ignorance (FDL 11/21/13)
• Farewell, Sebastian (IHE 11/20/13)
• The Audacity: Thrun Learns A Lesson and Students Pay (Tressiemc 11/19/13)
• UConn Response To Assault Witness: 'Join A Women's Group' (Huff Po 11/13/13)
• UC To Form Workgroup on Faculty Discrimination Policies (Daily Bruin 11/7/13)
• In Public Education, Edge Still Goes to Rich (NYT 11/6/12)
• UC to Evaluate Racial Discrimination Policies in Wake of UCLA Complaints (Daily Cal 11/3/13)
• Bias and Discrimination at UCLA (KCRW 10/23/13)
• The Scholars Who Shill for Wall Street (The Nation 10/23/13)