Education - Matthew Rozsa

The pandemic presents colleges and universities with a no-win situation

Aug 25, 2020 | Education, Salon.com

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The coronavirus pandemic has presented American colleges with a seemingly no-win dilemma: Do they resume in-person learning — which, if done wrong, could put thousands of students at risk — or only conduct classes remotely, exacting a financial toll on said colleges and diluting the on-campus college experience many students desire?...

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Thousands of students expected to return to Liberty University campus amid coronavirus pandemic

Mar 25, 2020 | Education, Salon.com

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Liberty University, a private Christian evangelical college in Lynchburg, Va., decided to welcome students back to its campus and ordered faculty and staff to report to work despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

“I think we have a responsibility to our students — who paid to be here, who want to be here, who love it here — to give them the ability to be with their friends, to continue their studies, enjoy the room and board they’ve already paid for and to not interrupt their college life,” Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr....

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The Wall of Hate

Mar 29, 2016 | Education, Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, Gender and Sexism, Race and Racism

Published: The Good Men Project (March 29, 2016) Let’s talk, for a moment, about the Wall of Hate. It may not look like much, but it was enough to grab my attention as I walked home from the Fairchild-Martindale Library at Lehigh University. Various students were...

Campus protests can go viral in no time–so can the backlash

Nov 27, 2015 | Autobiographical, Civil Liberties, Education, Internet Culture, Millennials

Published: The Daily Dot (November 27, 2015) It’s hard to follow the recent flurry of college protests without being reminded of President Harry S. Truman, who famously said that “there is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.” As the media...

Campus PCness and the Price of Free Speech

Nov 11, 2015 | Civil Liberties, Education, Internet Culture

Published: The Huffington Post (November 11, 2015), The Good Men Project (November 10, 2015) This is an editorial for my fellow liberals. Because progressive ideas on political and social issues often challenge conventional assumptions, liberalism as an ideology...

When College Liberalism Is Wrong

Sep 24, 2015 | Civil Liberties, Education, Race and Racism

Published: The Good Men Project (September 24, 2015) Once upon a time, I was a Republican. It was only a few years after the September 11th terrorist attacks and, despite my reservations about the war in Iraq, I believed that maintaining a strong national security...

Hillary Clinton, unpaid internships, and the culture of exploiting young workers

Jul 9, 2015 | Class Issues, Education, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Millennials

Published: Daily Dot (July 9, 2015) Although Hillary Clinton has proposed a series of programs for reducing youth unemployment, she has also come under fire on the Internet for staffing her presidential campaign with unpaid interns. In response, Clinton announced on...

7 times Bernie Sanders broke the Internet

May 19, 2015 | Class Issues, Climate Change and Other Environmental Issues, Economic Policy, Education, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Plutocracy, Salon.com

Published: Daily Dot (May 19, 2015), Salon (May 23, 2015) Say what you will about the presidential candidacy of Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), but if nothing else, it has certainly introduced some interesting ideas into America’s political debate. Considering that the...

5 ways to fix America’s crippling student debt problem

Apr 28, 2015 | Class Issues, Economic Policy, Education

Published: Daily Dot (April 28, 2015) Back in 2011, Occupy Wall Street swept America due in large part to its members’ savvy use of social media (one professor of journalism even referred to the movement as a “hashtag revolt”). While no catchy Twitter slogan has yet...

The University of Oklahoma shouldn’t have shut down its racist frat

Mar 16, 2015 | Civil Liberties, Education, Race and Racism

Published: Daily Dot (March 16, 2015) co-author Tillie Adelson To understand why the University of Oklahoma was wrong to expel the students responsible for singing a racist chant (as well as disband the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter on their campus), it is first...

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