Whose Campus?

A single, clenched fist thrust from a sea of white ivory. That’s the symbol of equity in higher education. It’s the sigil black students wear when they rise up to challenge an institution that has abandoned them. It’s the rallying cry of union workers clad in bright green, protesting unlivable wages under the sharp Southern […]

Up From the Ashes

On Nov 8, the sky over California was filled with ash. Two wildfires, the Camp Fire and the Woolsey Fire, had ignited within eight hours of each other, forcing evacuations in Butte, Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Among the thousands affected by the fires were first-year undeclared life sciences student Monica Campbell, from Paradise, California; […]