Columbia Ping
In fairness to Northwestern they should also be credited for employing Arthur Butz, a prominent Holocaust denier for 40 years.
Does Columbia University have an elected board of directors or trustees? If so, that’s where the changes need to be made.
Unfortunately races like those are the ones most commonly ignored. We had a chance to put a true tea partier on the University of Michigan board of regents but less than half the Romney voters bothered to vote in that race or the other state level education spots.
Ping!
I thought this piece of detritus was still in prison
Ayers and Dorhn and the other terrorists all got academic jobs. All were protected from prosecution.
Columbia aka the Frankfurt School of Behavioralism.Enuff said....
This hiring by Columbia University should be offensive to any decent person. The leftist members of the faculty think they can get away with it because they are “above” us all.
Birds of a feather flock together.
That is a lie.
They would be unemployed and unemployable if they were not celebrated ‘counter cultural’ terrorists.
Take back the schools, and we can take back the country. In the long term, no other objective ought to be more pressing for conservatives.
How is it that the left managed to hijack academia in the first place? I see nothing at Free Republic but carping about how the press, entertainment media and academia have been taken over by the left and damned little analyses about how this happened. At some point it must be admitted that this constitutes a strategic, if not ultimate, victory for the left. Yes, they kicked our butts in those critical areas and are about to do the same in the economic sphere. How did we manage to lose these battles? Try to man up and formulate your answer free of cliches, evasions and excuses.
Hey! Columbia University is just a little guy “speaking truth to power” to the elitists at Pacific Coast Bible College! /sarc
School of Education
Department of Student Development (SD)
Social Justice Education Concentration
Social Justice Education is an interdisciplinary graduate program of study with a focus on social diversity and social justice education particularly as they apply to formal educational systems, kindergarten through higher education. The masters program of study focuses upon the use of reflective practice in Social Justice Education; the doctoral program of study focuses upon research that is informed by the use of reflective practice in SJE and the development on systemic approaches building and maintaining socially just educational learning environments. Our goals are to generate knowledge about social justice education and to apply new knowledge to the design and delivery of effective social justice educational techniques and systems.
Social Justice Education's central focus is the preparation of professional educators, counselors, and change agents who are able to understand and work effectively with social justice issues in formal educational settings. It provides graduate degree programs of study for educational professionals who teach and practice at all levels of the educational system, kindergarten through college. We hope to attract educational professionals whose primary responsibilities include teaching, school guidance and counseling, the supervision or professional development of teachers or school counselors, education administrators, student affairs programmers, special educators, or college residential educators.
Social Justice Education
Bodies of Knowledge and Practice
The approaches to theory and practice taken by Social Justice Education are rooted in the civil rights social movements of the past forty years, within which concepts such as social justice, oppression and liberation are central categories for analyzing, evaluating and transforming interlocking systems of discriminatory institutional structures and cultural practices and social behavior.
Students in social justice education study the inequities that people experience on the basis of their social group memberships, through systems of constraint and advantage reproduced through the social processes of exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence.
Social justice education pays attention to the resources that individuals, families, social groups and communities bring to personal and social change and to the transformation of educational institutions and practices.
Social justice education also pays careful attention to process in educational and structural interventions and practices. This attention to process includes balancing the emotional with the cognitive; acknowledging and supporting the personal while analyzing and intervening in social systems; attending to social relations within and among families, schools and communities; developing competencies in collaboration and interpersonal and intergroup relationships as well as education and advocacy.
The bodies of knowledge, research and practice that inform social justice education are interdisciplinary, drawn from anthropology; Black and ethnic studies; cognitive, developmental and social psychology; education; gay, lesbian bisexual, and transgender studies; history; literature; Judaic and middle eastern studies; women's studies; and sociology. It includes the following areas:
theories and research on socialization that inform the development of social identity and social group affiliations within families, schools, communities and other social institutions;
the formation, maintenance, and interaction among in-groups and out-groups, and interventions that foster positive inter-group relations;
prejudice and discrimination, the dynamics of power and privilege, and interlocking systems of oppression;
forms of resistance and processes of empowerment and liberation created by individuals, families, and communities, and implemented within educational and other social systems;
socio-cultural and historical contexts for, and dynamics within and among the specific manifestations of oppression (ageism, anti-Semitism, ableism, classism, ethnocentrism, heterosexism, racism, sexism, ) in educational and other social systems;
socio-cultural and historical contexts for the Civil Rights Movement and other social liberation movements that found inspiration in it (such as the women's liberation movement, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender rights movements, the disability rights movement, and liberation movements for communities of color);
the interaction of students and families within multicultural schools and communities;
models for designing, delivering and evaluating curriculum-based social justice education;
models for designing, delivering and evaluating system-based social justice interventions within or among families, schools, school systems, and communities
social justice intervention strategies such as conflict resolution, collaboration, or advocacy
These bodies of knowledge provide the basis for the core competencies included in the masters, CAGS and doctoral programs.
For further discussion of the approaches taken in this program, please refer to M. Adams, L.A. Bell, P. Griffin (Eds) (2007), Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: Second Edition (New York : Routledge).
For more information about SJE, please click http://www.umass.edu/sje/