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Why Faculty Should Join Occupy Movement Protesters on College Campuses
Too many academics for too long have turned their backs on addressing important social issues.
The Public Intellectual: Simon Dawes
Articles by Simon Dawes on Truthout.
The “Public University” as Response to Funding Cuts to UK’s Higher Education
Student protests have risen in the wake of the government's plans to make society pay for the economic crisis.
Occupy Colleges Now: Students as the New Public Intellectuals
Students are recognizing that it is crucial to struggle for the university as a democratic public sphere.
Beyond the Limits of Neoliberal Higher Education: Global Youth Resistance and the American/British Divide
“We need a wholesale revision of how a democracy both listens to and treats young people.”
Corporate Media and Larry Summers Team Up to Gut Public Education: Beyond Education for Illiteracy, Vulgarity and a Culture of Cruelty
Corporate power and money are unchecked as they privatize, deregulate and destroy all vestiges of public life.
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Between Race and Reason: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
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Henry Giroux on Democracy Unsettled: From Critical Pedagogy to the War on Youth
“Theory needs to be rigorous and accessible, and it needs to address not merely the outer limits of disciplinary scholarship but also important social problems.”
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The Problem With Affirmative Action
(Photo: _Davo_) Henry Louis Gates Jr., the famed African-American literary scholar and director of the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, recently reflected the following in an …
Vocalo Feature: Inside the Arizona Ethnic Studies Battle (Audio)
Elisa Meza and Mike Ludwig discuss the battle to preserve Mexican American Studies in Tucson public schools and how the ethnic studies debate tends to get misrepresented.