We don’t need more STEM majors. We need more STEM majors with liberal arts training.
We don’t need more STEM majors. We need more STEM majors with liberal arts training.The ability to draw from other disciplines produces better scientists.This was posted on Google+
Is the Professor Bossy or Brilliant? Much Depends on Gender – NYTimes.com
Is the Professor Bossy or Brilliant? Much Depends on Gender – NYTimes.com An interactive chart of words taken from millions of student reviews of their instructors offers a vivid illustration of unconscious gender bias. This was posted on...
Racism at Universities
[These issues of racism at universities] “must be seen by administration not singularly, but as part of the institutional fabric, formulated within a national fabric sickened by white supremacy, misogyny, heteropatriarchy, and old-fashioned elitism. It’s a...
Denver Students Walk Out Of School Over Board’s Proposal That Would ‘Censor’ History
Denver Students Walk Out Of School Over Board’s Proposal That Would ‘Censor’ HistoryARVADA, Colo. (AP) — Hundreds of students walked out of classrooms around suburban Denver on Tuesday in protest over a conservative-led school board proposal to focus...
In Colorado, a Student Counterprotest to an Anti-Protest Curriculum – NYTimes.com
In Colorado, a Student Counterprotest to an Anti-Protest Curriculum – NYTimes.comARVADA, Colo. — A new conservative school board majority here in the Denver suburbs recently proposed a curriculum-review committee to promote patriotism, respect for authority and...The Real Humanities Crisis
Important questions about what is really causing the so-called humanities “crisis” in the New York Times. Or rather, it [our economic system] has a great deal to offer but only for a privileged elite (the cultural parallel to our economic upper class) who...Reason needs reverence: What we’ve yet to learn from the Enlightenment
by Susan Neiman Intriguing thoughts about how to think about religion, reason, and the Enlightenment. While I might disagree with much, I appreciate a number of the questions opened up here… “Much of our vision of happiness is derived from the...Book
Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe: Islam in German Culture
"Weber's study undertakes a much-needed comprehensive investigation of the contemporary 'regime of gender violence,' that is, the key role violence has played in defining the position of Muslims in the German public sphere (in the larger European context). Through nuanced theorizing as well as careful historical contextualization, Weber develops an intersectional framework for analyzing gendered violence in a way that does not reinforce racialized discourses of cultural and/or religious difference." [more...]
Palgrave Macmillan, January 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-00708-7, ISBN10: 1-137-00708-7
252 pages.