…anti-bias policies in ways that interfered with religious belief. (Writing for the high court majority, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that the state-supported Hastings College of Law’s policy of requiring…
…In many humanities, social science, and history courses written assignments and term papers — not timed, in-class exams — are the basis of a student’s academic assessment but the underperformance…
…want to achieve Title IX’s goals for women of all races, Brake writes, they’ll need “a dose of social-justice feminism” to broaden their advocacy beyond the letter of the law….
…the name of misguided notions of “civility” and “social justice.” But perhaps a more powerful motive for General Counsel to advise colleges to enact speech codes is the lawyers’ obsession…
…social justice. This is certainly to be applauded. However, too often such a struggle is antiseptically cleaved from the project of transforming capitalist social relations. Goals such as “to challenge…
…focus on in the College, which are expressed in the acronym TEACH: Transformative Leadership Equity and Social Justice Action Collaboration Human Differences and Diversity Darren asked wittily: “Which four are…
…racial preferences based on generalized “societal discrimination,” social justice, or the contemporary needs of American society as insufficiently weighty to overrule the color-blind imperative of the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection…
…ethnic studies is, indeed, anchored in the histories, traditions, literatures, and philosophies of American people of color and their diaspora. The field also supports social justice and equality for all….
…of 1964 launched decades of illegal student protest: how to balance students’ passions for social justice (and sometimes other motives) with the rule of law. November 20 capped three days…
…Justice Alito termed a campus agenda of political correctness. The “all-comers” policy has satisfied the Supreme Court. But from an educational standpoint, does it make any sense? What purpose is…
…peoples and problems and developing individuals who will advance equity and justice both at home and abroad.” [emphasis added] The desired general education curriculum, moreover, will allow students “to wrestle…
…“social justice,” 96 on “diversity,” 52 on “critical race theory,” and 28 on “feminist theory.” This list pretty much exhausts the political obsessions of the cultural left. But it hasn’t…
…point for discussion and activities in your First Year Seminar; and -prepare you for discussions related to our socio-economic status issues in the United States and how social justice advocacy…
…in admissions. “Social justice” requires that race and class be weighed. Having done this, we must “question our deeper assumptions about what success is” and “rethink some of our most…
…Study of Social Justice on campus. In addition, the plan included a diversity strategy stating that the campus will identify spaces to be devoted to underrepresented student groups. While the…
…university professors to want higher salaries? If “social justice” theorists like Jonathan Kozol are really in it for the children, why don’t they donate their $20,000 speaking fees to scholarships?…
…disposition thinking say is that while it is fitting and proper to introduce teacher-aspirants to ideas about social justice, social and economic inequities, racial and other demographic variables, and related…
…for enthusiastically measuring the “disposition” of all prospective public school teachers to promote “social justice”—seem far more interested in structuring ideologically top-heavy curricula than in providing the practical guidance (tips…
…To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, a bestseller among education textbooks, Ayers offers a pedagogy that revolves around touchy-feely “exploration,” “social justice,” and “love.” Moravian College Professor Joseph Shosh…
…from the official worksheet of the Department of Education, is as follows: – Your Social Security Number and your parents’ Social Security Numbers if you are providing parent information; –…
…in which Amar and Johnson, quoting from Justice O’Connor’s opinion for the Supreme Court in Grutter v. Bollinger, state these benefits: Among other things, a diverse student body facilitates “cross-racial…
…two weeks before he started his White House job last March, for forced redistribution of capitalist profits to minorities and Native Americans: “Give them the wealth!…No justice on stolen land!”…
…humane causes of global peace and social justice.” David Vine, a member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists, writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education in November, offered a lengthy…
…I could have made the case for Yiddish equally well in most areas of the Humanities and Social Sciences. – Linguistics provided the first academic home for Yiddish in America,…
…with other offerings at the school such as: – Introduction to Community Service Professions – Eco-Literacy and Social Justice Seminar – Politics and Power (first sentence: “Students largely run this…
10. Justice O’Connor now suggests that the social-science evidence on which it was based is shaky. 9. The social-science evidence on which it was based is getting shakier, as more…
…up against now.” Zinn himself added a few weeks ago that his hope was that his work will spread new rebellion, and “lead into a larger movement for economic justice.”…
…clarion call for the establishment of “social justice: on campus. Among other things, his notion of social justice consists of the unionization of faculty members and graduate students, and the…
At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, students can minor in social and economic justice without taking a single economics course.—Reported by E. Frank Stephenson on the Division of…
…students’ rights in higher education—the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) abandoned its de facto “social justice” criterion. Yet while the development made it harder for Education schools…