The holidays are coming up and gift-giving pressure is mounting. (Or so retailers, panicked about the economic slump, would have you believe.)

Even if you're going the frugal route, perhaps you're looking for some outside-of-school reading for the winter break.

I've been reading article after article about how higher education is becoming more out of reach for students due to higher  fees because of budget cuts. 

Below are three articles, one on colleges in general and two specifically the University of California and California State University systems.  

Today marks the 10th annual international Transgender Day of Remembrance - a day set aside to remember the trans and gender non-conforming people who have met a tragic and violent end in the past year.

'We used to think there was a black community'With her towering afro and radical rhetoric, Angela Davis was one of the iconic faces of black politics in 1970s America.

Since seeing the film "The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo" in my politics of gender class last night, I have not been able to get the images of the women I saw speaking about having been brutally beaten, violated and humiliated out of my mind.

Obama Will Take Us Backward By Channeling Keynes: Amity Shlaes

Commentary by Amity Shlaes

When I describe my interest in medicine/public health, I make a point to emphasize how this goes beyond my scientific curiosity and into my passion for people, particularly marginalized communities. Intersectionalities such as the crib to prison pipeline/ books v. bars have been supported with substantial evidence.

 The World Going Forward:   The Confusion Of   Free- Market Believer

Last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the Facing Race Conference hosted by  the Applied Research Center in Oakland, California.