Why DEI Work Should not Give attention to Baby-Free Cat Guys

To the Editor: I’m penning this letter in response to a “Letter from a Baby-Free Cat Man” (October 17, 2024) which argues that DEI (Range, Fairness and Inclusion) efforts on campus want to incorporate childless and childfree adults. As a sociologist and antiracist educator, I’m discouraged after I see DEI and vital ideas, reminiscent of…

Why You Should not Use Bodily Schooling As Punishment

contributed by Dr. Kymm Ballard, Govt Director for SPARK Take into consideration any time you’ve seen “military boot camp” portrayed in popular culture — are you picturing the standard drill sergeant, ordering his troops to do countless laps and push-ups, as punishment for his or her errors that day? Now, with that state of affairs in your…

School members should not fetishize expertise over instructing (opinion)

A number of years in the past, I learn a flier for a visiting speaker. The speaker had been invited to campus to lecture about pedagogy. The main focus of her speak: purple pens. Sure, purple pens, she was right here to argue, make college students uncomfortable. In response to the commercial, when a school…