A new study finds that the #RedforEd strikes have reversed the trend of declining teacher salaries, but inflation-adjusted salaries still often trail those of a decade ago.
Innovation Ambitions Gone Awry at UT Austin
The University of Texas at Austin attempted to overhaul courses by moving online, but it didn’t go as planned.
Seven Years of Disrespect: Harvard and the City of Boston
Harvard University is skating on thin ice as it continues to flip off the City of Boston.
What Do an Ebola Outbreak and Clinic Attacks Have to Do with Politics in the Congo?
A hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was bombed again last week, while DR Congo battles an outbreak of the Ebola virus.
Anand Giridharadas: “Plutocrats Are Going to Plute…It Is Our Job to Democracy”
Speaking at the opening plenary of Harvard University’s 20th annual social enterprise conference, author and social critic Anand Giridharadas called for jettisoning impact rhetoric and placing our energy instead into social movements, political activism, and structural change.
Could ‘Radical Tough Love’ Improve The Internet? These Women Think So.
In honor of International Women’s Day, we speak to a pair of women who are on a quest to transform Wikipedia, one of the Internet’s most popular websites. “It also has the biases of the real world internalized in its working and in its content,” says Anasuya Sengupta, a feminist activist from India and Nonprofit
In California, Berkeley City Council Votes Unanimously to Support Worker Co-ops
In Berkeley, California, the City Council has adopted a three-pronged approach to supporting the growth of worker co-op businesses. It offers access to the city’s revolving loan fund, preferential treatment for contracting, and ongoing technical assistance. Will nearby Oakland follow suit?
Measuring the Humility Quotient at the Museum
The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland will offer free admission to all starting next week as part of an initiative to broaden their traditional visitor pool and reduce barriers to engagement.
Back Billed for Taxes: The Definition of Nonprofit Matters in Allentown
In Allentown, Pennsylvania, at least two nonprofits have been hit with back bills for what is termed the “business privilege tax” and are suing for relief.
School Closes as Thousands of Students Are Shorted on Financial Aid
It looks like Argosy University will be closing on Friday; it cannot pay its bills and did not provide financial aid to students who had qualified for it.
Sympathy for Nonprofits We Can Do Without
Searching for a rationale for keeping nonprofit workers on wages too low to live on? Try these out—straight from Silicon Valley!
Dems Seek Net Neutrality Do-Over to “Save the Internet”
On Wednesday morning, Democrats in the US House and Senate released a legislative proposal that, in three pages, would reverse two years of Republican-driven FCC shenanigans regarding the free and open, net-neutral Internet.