Universities inevitably change over time, but this particular change raises questions about how the University’s values translate to reality, especially when profit is involved.

Palestinian-American scholar Helga Tawil-Souri, co-editor of “Producing Palestine” (2024) and “Gaza as Metaphor” (2016), gave a lecture entitled “Spacing Palestine: Mapping and Speculative Infrastructures,” which examined how Palestinian identity should […]

WashU, as an institution, has traded public-facing politics for career outcomes, encouraging students to do the same as individuals. When a university defines the primary purpose of education as professional preparation, civic engagement becomes a risk and is disregarded rather than made an educational responsibility.

College is where love stories happen. Four years. Four chances. That’s all I got. For a long time, I thought that was the deal. However, as a former hopeless romantic and future junior, I have realized that my story may not sound the same. Oh, how tragic. But maybe not?

Workers at the Kaldi’s Coffee location on Skinker Boulevard have voted to unionize with UNITE HERE Local 74, but the final outcome of the election remains unresolved as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) investigates a set of challenged ballots that could determine certification of the results.

Maximalism gives us more ways to express ourselves. It reminds us that clothes can be whimsical, emotional, and deeply personal rather than algorithmically safe.

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied the petition filed by former University of Michigan Law Professor Laura Beny against Mark D. West, WashU’s provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs. The petition asked the Supreme Court to review the legal standard applied in her racial and gender discrimination case against the University of Michigan and West.

A law professor at the University of Michigan filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to review the legal standard applied in her racial and gender discrimination case against the University of Michigan and Mark D. West, WashU’s provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, on Oct. 27.

We have let celebrity feminism —  the public, branded feminist advocacy by famous figures — encompass the entire feminist movement.

WashU ranked 72nd out of 257 colleges in the 2026 Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) College Free Speech Rankings survey, with an overall “D- speech climate grade.”