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Elline Lipkin Elline Lipkin is an author and research scholar with UCLAs Center for the Study of Women. Throughout her career, she says shes often written articles for academic journals without payment. When journals dont pay writers, Lipkin says scholars with fewer financial resources are edged out. After nearly 15 years as an independent academic, I always appreciate the impact of an eye-opening statement like: "Did you know most adjunct faculty, working full tim...

If you’re looking for what will change the most this decade, it might just be higher education.

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Across the country, high school seniors are making the choice of a lifetime, as colleges send out their admissions and rejections and the May 1 decision date approaches. The process has been much more chaotic than usual this year: From virtual campus tours to the elimination of standardized testing to universities in financial crisis, the college admissions world has been transformed by COVID. I talked to Emily Selden, a Des Moines, Iowa, admissions consultant, about the end of an application s...

Two professors at the Georgetown University Law Center had a racist conversation about the allegedly poor performance of “Blacks” in their class, a negotiations seminar, which was recorded and uploaded for those same students to view. In the video, recorded in February and posted to Twitter on Wednesday evening, professor Sandra Sellers complained, “I hate to say this—I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are Blacks. Happens almost every semester. And it�...

ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images US lawmakers are debating student debt-relief proposals, seeking help for people saddled with loans. But the proposals on the table right now are not a comprehensive solution, experts say.  The problem is a cycle of student loan accumulation, and little education about how this debt works. Its a familiar sight each year: a sea of soon-to-be college graduates, seated in their caps and gowns, with families and friends watching proudly...

The problem is so much bigger than student loans.

The argument over how much debt to cancel—and how to cancel it—needs to focus on the causes of the racial wealth gap.

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss the movement to cancel student debt. More than 43 million borrowers owe a collective $1.7 trillion in student debt

"I will not make that happen."