Higher Education Archives

Education

Trigger Warnings on College Campuses Are Nothing but Censorship

The spread of trigger warnings outside of online communities where they might actually be of use to the classrooms of our nation’s most prominent universities has diminished the value of a liberal arts education.

Craig Klugman

Social Justice

Millennials’ Tolerance for Shutting Down Free Speech

Recent surveys suggest the American love of free speech is waning.

Lisa Wade

Education

The View From Your Ivory Tower

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Pacific Standard Staff

Education

The Department of Education Demands Greater Accountability From College Accreditors

Accreditation agencies have recently come under fire for failing to keep schools accountable. Now the Education Department is looking to change that.

Annie Waldman

Education

Who Keeps Billions of Taxpayer Dollars Flowing to For-Profit College?

Accreditation agencies are supposed to make sure that colleges are putting students in a position to succeed. That’s not happening at schools overseen by one accreditor in particular.

Annie Waldman

Education

Bringing the Rural Poor Into the Digital Economy

Dumas, a small town in the heart of the Arkansas Delta—where public computers and open Internet access are hard to come by—is home to an ambitious new program to teach digital literacy skills.

Maria Konnikova

Education

The Pilot Program

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

Pacific Standard Staff

Education

Confessions of a For-Profit College Inspector

Young, broke, and desperate, I worked at the heart of an emerging nationwide scandal in higher education. Here's what I saw.

Michael Fitzgerald

Education

A Nationwide Scandal in Higher Education

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

Pacific Standard Staff

Social Justice

When Students Become Patients, Privacy Suffers

University students have less privacy for their campus health records than they would have if they sought care off campus. Schools say they are trying to seek the right balance between privacy and safety.

Charles Ornstein