[Aquinasfan]

"students’ return home on breaks when they may show up on the doorstep transformed—with new opinions on politics or religion"

So I guess that refers to the kids coming home as conservative Christians.

Hey parents, the joke's on you.

[Cucumber]

Brainwashing. Antonio Gramsci and John Dewey style.

[Calvin Locke]

I realized that there had to be some balance between laissez-faire and strict administrative guidance,

Bedlam, or Stalinism? Benedict's a genius in realizing that there might be alternatives.

Why no one's thought of it before is simply amazing.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

For instance, they help prepare parents for students’ return home on breaks when they may show up on the doorstep transformed—with new opinions on politics or religion or new forms of self-expression, such as a tattoo or a piercing.

Hi Mom, I'm home from Amherst! Can you do some laundry for me?

[GQuagmire]

Amherst aka Cambridge with trees.

[Fudd]

Mona Charen's recent article comes to mind.

Meet the liberated college woman. You may pity her.

"Unprotected" is a hard slap at the sexual free-for-all that prevails on American campuses and throughout American life. The author, revealed since publication as Dr. Miriam Grossman, a psychiatrist at the student health service at UCLA, was hesitant to put her name on this book. The orthodoxy within the academic world is a strict one, and those who transgress often pay with their jobs. Let's hope for her sake, but particularly for her patients' well being, that she is not punished for her heterodox views.

LINK

[concerned about politics]

"students’ return home on breaks when they may show up on the doorstep transformed—with new opinions on politics or religion"

When they move too far to the left, you cut their college fund and make them get their own jobs. If they want to play, make them pay for school themselves. Why waste the money?
Never reward an undesirable behavior.

If they behave themselves and remember what you taught them, by all means be supportive.

[twigs]

Yes, they warned us about this when my daughter was preparing to go to college 4 years ago. Fortunately, she's a commuter. Just had breakfast with my husband who is a college professor. He told me that the new required freshman course about getting adjusted and critical thinking (can't remember the name of it) has been changed. Now, to even be allowed to teach it, professors have to take a test of some sort to see if they have the "right attitude" to teach it. This is mandated, apparently, by the textbook company which also provides the test. I met the teacher who taught this course several years ago. As a parent, if I had met him and realized he was going to teach my child such a course, I would reconsider the decision to go there. And this is normally an excellent school. Somehow, I doubt that if conservatives took this attitude test that they would be teaching this course. The battles parents have been having with secondary education has moved to colleges where children are of age and no longer, for the most part, live at home. Beware.

[ishabibble]

>>>Rules are starting points for negotiations.<<<

All anyone needs to know about what is happening on college campuses. I would never send one of my children to a college in 2007. I'd bet that the parents of the girls in Girls Gone Wild videos are so proud that they paid all that money to see their daughter doing porn stuff on late night TV. The "rule" about not acting like a low whore is negotiable, you see.

[ClearCase_guy]

“We’ve seen the increasing involvement of parents in the lives of college students,” says Jackson.

Perhaps I'm being overly paranoid, but two ideas just clicked together for me:

1) I've seen a lot of articles about "helicopter parents" who hover over their children -- even going on job interviews with them! I have found this sad. Parents do their children no favors when they are so "involved".

2) This article, to some extent, says that colleges expect to brainwash children, and urges parents to back off and let the Socialism Machine shape their young minds without interference.

I think I see an effort to separate children from parents. To help the kids be independent? Or to make them part of the machine?

[jude24]

"students’ return home on breaks when they may show up on the doorstep transformed—with new opinions on politics or religion" So I guess that refers to the kids coming home as conservative Christians.

Actually, that happens with surprising frequency - though this probably isn't what UMass had in mind.

[HoosierHawk]

My daughter's starting college in the fall.

Fortunately, she's planning to live at home and commute to Valpo.

And if anyone's going to do any "deconstructing" with regards to my daughter and her welfare, it'll be me.

[pabianice]

Womens Studies, University of Massachusetts

"One of the oldest programs in the country, Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst has been offering courses and graduating students since 1974. Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary program for the study of women and gender. Combining the analytic tools of many disciplines, women’s studies explores how women and men are constructed both historically and in the contemporary world. We explore gender within the context of race, class, nationality/ethnicity and sexuality. Our core faculty members have expertise in: African American women's history and activism, Asian American women’s history and activism, Asian American women's work, feminist ethics, feminist science studies, post-colonial studies, social constructions of identities, women's grass roots activism in the Caribbean and Latin America. Women's Studies also draws on faculty from a wide variety of diverse disciplines across campus such as history, literature, sociology, political science, communication, anthropology, African American studies, Germanic languages, comparative literature, psychology, education, management, legal studies, philosophy, economics, and more..."

[pabianice]

While enjoying autonomy as a student, he also experienced some turbulent times as an administrator in the 1970s, when, among other events, students occupied the career center in protest over on-campus military recruiting.

Somehow omits mentioning the burning of the ROTC Building in 1970.

[pabianice]

UMass/Amherst

ANTH 360

GENDER, CULTURE, AND POWER

Den Ouden

Feminist and other critical approaches in anthropology have challenged prevailing Western assumptions about the categories for “woman” and “man.” Such studies reveal that power infuses gender identities and gender relations in profound ways. This course provides an overview of anthropological studies of gender, culture, and power, with special attention to the construction and contestation of gender in varied cultural contexts. PREREQUISITE: Anth C100, or 103, or 106; or permission of instructor. 3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits

[art_rocks]

>>>Rules are starting points for negotiations.<<<

Does this apply to the college rules or only to the rules the parents have?

So the rules on underage drinking can be negotiated