The students who shuffled into Seton Hall University for the first time this fall semester make up a freshman class distinctive for one simple reason: they will be the last students ever enrolled in the college who weren’t eligible for its two-thirds tuition discount. Richard Perez-Pena reports in the New York Times that Seton Hall, […]
Justin Spees
Justin Spees is an intern at the Washington Monthly.
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All the True Believers
When Slate’s Dave Weigel interviewed Buddy Roemer the other day, the former Louisiana governor espoused his theory on why he’s not getting any press attention: “It depends on the quality of the reporter, I find. Some of them are just concerned about the money you raise and where you stand in the polls.” If reporters […]
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Pew Report Finds Spike in Hispanic Enrollment Numbers
A new report by the Pew Hispanic Center has found that Hispanic students between the ages of 18-24 enrolled in college at a rate faster than any other ethnic group in the 2009-2010 school year. During a year when total college enrollment for college-aged students was at 12.2 million, 1.8 million, or 15 percent, were […]
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Title IX to Set College Harassment Policies
Sandy Hingston at Philadelphia Magazine has written an article for the September edition about the no-tolerance sexual harassment policies most colleges have. Colleges are not subject to disciplinary policies set by the government, but as concern over sexual harassment has grown in recent years, the government is using Title IX as a means to steer […]
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Miss O’Donnell Comes to Washington
On Thursday, August 18th, former Delaware Senate Candidate Christine O’Donnell (right, with author) appeared at a Washington Barnes & Noble to promote her new book, Troublemaker. Billed as a political memoir, campaign diary, and rallying cry–and slapped with the Tea Party-approved subtitle Let’s Do What it Takes to Make America Great Again–Troublemakerr is the latest […]
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The Tea Partier Who Brought His Own Tea
After Rick Perry announced his official entry into the presidential race on Saturday, the Texas governor distinguished himself with a series of maybe-gaffes while touring Iowa. But that tour, which political pundits and Obama have already brushed off as a late entrant’s ramshackle opening, is barely a distinguishing characteristic of a political season that’s been […]
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John Boehner’s Political Impasse
Who’d have thought John Boehner would be the one to reinvigorate sympathy for Barack Obama? Reports of acid exchanges between the two during moments of negotiations notwithstanding, they have by all accounts hammered out a positive working relationship. Until the budget negotiations erupted into center-stage drama the president had been casually dismissive about them, assuring […]
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Higher Education Advice for India
World Bank officials from the United States have flown to the Indian state of Jharkhand for a brainstorming session, scheduled for tomorrow with Indian academics and bureaucrats. The purpose of this meeting will be to develop a blueprint for improving higher education standards in the state. The Telegraph in Calcutta, India reports: The high-profile visit […]
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“Pay for Play” and Television News
Here is the second in our series of articles about a report the FCC released earlier this month about the current state of the news industry. On Monday we provided an excerpt from the report that covered how the Internet has altered the kind of news people receive by impeding on the profits of traditional […]
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The State (and Future) of American Journalism
Earlier this month, the Federal Communications Commission released an exhaustive report on the current media landscape authored by former Washington Monthly editor Steven Waldman. There’s general agreement in the press that the report does a great job of explaining the problems journalism faces, and agreement that it doesn’t offer much in the way of substantive […]
