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Higher Education
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Shoptalk: Overheard at ASA 2025 or MLA 2026?
This edition of Shoptalk asks: Can you guess which of the following was overheard at ASA 2025 and which was overheard at MLA 2026?
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How campus protests exposed the flaws in higher education diversity initiatives
Universities across the US pay lip service to diversity, equity and inclusion, while suppressing calls for Palestinian liberation.
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What Is a “Student” Politics?
To risk enfranchisement, suffer its penalties, apologetically—on behalf of a political sympathy with others—is revolutionary. This is the kind of action to which humanist knowledge must be bound.
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Leaving a Mark
I found myself constantly asking other participants their thoughts and reflections, to the point where I simply decided to sit down and record these conversations as a sort of informal oral history project.
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Being Columbia
This article was born as critique, but has grown into an elaboration of emotion, reflection, and reaction.
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Reckoning With Our Collective Failure
We were collectively failing in our mission to help students become informed, engaged citizens.
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Liberation, Education
In April 2024, Sofia Rivera captured stark close-ups of scenes from the Columbia University campus, from barricaded buildings to clipped versions of the campus’s famous statues, obscured in favor of the images of protest surrounding them.
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The Fire This Time
I come to you with the same tears of rage, the same feelings of intense internal pain, and the same traumas that you all carry daily.
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Lyrics of the Student Intifada
There is an elegy that echoes from the universities of Gaza to the universities of the world.
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Like Trees By Water
lock-armed and mealy mouthed atop us / the blockade begins to sing / and cross-legged / fetal below / we join
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We Keep Us Safe
At every step, the strength found in solidarity was instrumental in sustaining the movement.
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A Tale of Two Graduations
In their different ways, the People’s Graduations restored my belief in the university—not as an imprimatur of excellence or a factory of social mobility, but as a community of scholars devoted to freedom and truth.
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From Palestine to NYC: Globalizing the Intifada
On the central platform’s mast, a fluttering Palestinian flag challenges the legitimacy of the official American one positioned a few meters above.
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Because Grief Is Collective, Healing Is Too
I watched news incessantly, like it was going to save me. I stopped sleeping at night.
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When the Singing Turned to Screams
The city had to wash the blood of students off the ground, and both it and Emerson are pretending nothing happened.
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On Being Disruptive
To say that the protests were not disruptive helps us look for the real reasons as to why the police were called. There are many.
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To Fix the University, Return to Moo U
Every time Sean Carswell teaches Jane Smiley’s “Moo” in his research writing class at California State University, a catastrophe at the fictional Moo University mirrors a crisis within CSU.
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You Could Use the Exercise
In the face of AI, the time is right to practice our writing techniques for invention and surprise.
