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Colleges Flush With Cash Saddle Poorest Students With Debt

From Long Island Press:   “NYU is not the only university with a billion-dollar endowment to leave its poorest students with heavy debt loads. More than a quarter of the nation’s 60 wealthiest universities leave their low-income students owing an average of more than $20,000 in federal loans.   At the University of Southern California, […]

USC Administration Shuts Down Art Students’ Blog

HyperAllergic on the latest in a long string of recent conflicts at Roski:   As tensions between the students and the Dean heated up, especially surrounding the mass drop out of the #USC7 earlier this year, “the Tumblr turned into a hosting site for our many open letters and support comments from our petition to remove Dean […]

USC’s Once Heralded MFA Program Opens With Only One Student

You read that right. From the LA Weekly:   “It’s an absurdly small class for any MFA program, and particularly for USC’s Roski School of Art and Design. Last May, the once-lauded program suffered a devastating blow when the entire class of 2016 left the school in protest of alleged broken promises and a perceived corporate takeover […]

Stop Universities From Hoarding Money

From the New York Times:   “Who do you think received more cash from Yale’s endowment last year: Yale students, or the private equity fund managers hired to invest the university’s money?   It’s not even close.   Last year, Yale paid about $480 million to private equity fund managers as compensation — about $137 million […]

USC Students Say Steve Sarkisian Got Off Too Easy

In the wake of his actions at the Salute to Troy rally, students are demanding accountability from the administration. From the Los Angeles Times:   “I think it’s important to have some accountability,” Rainbolt said. “But I feel like football is a different thing. If football players do something wrong, it doesn’t really matter because […]