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Campus Organizer's Guide to Democratizing Education 2007 Liberty Tree's Democratizing Education Program is pleased to release the Campus Organizer's Guide to Democratizing Education, authored by our Associate, Eric Prindle, a recent graduate of NYU Law. Prindle wrote the guide for students, faculty, staff, and community members interested in promoting democracy in higher education, and a higher education system in service to a democratic, inclusive, society. As students, faculty, and staff at campuses around the country organize around issues like tuition reform, affirmative action, and labor rights, very often they find themselves coming up against a deficit of democracy on their campuses. Although universities and colleges are supposed to be structured to serve the needs of students and the interests of the general public, they are usually controlled by a small group of administrators who increasingly tend to have a corporate mindset that excludes democratic participation by their “employees” and “customers.” . . . . Other guides, handbooks, manuals, etc. are out there to teach you about “organizing” or more specifically “grassroots organizing” as general subjects. This guide is less of a how-to manual than most of those. It is less about skill sharing and more about experience sharing. As new generations of students, staff, and faculty deal with the question of democracy on their campuses, many of the same issues come up over and over again. The purpose of this guide is to look at what these issues are and what we can learn from what’s worked and what hasn’t in the past. Additional Information:Please download this 20-page pdf-format guide by clicking here. Areas of Focus:Right to Organize, Democratizing Education (Liberty Tree)Tags:User CommentsNo Comments.Please login at the top of the page or register as a Democracy Square member if you would like to comment. |
Democratizing Education
Creative Copyright 2005
Creative Copyright 2005
We are slow to realize that democracy is a life; and involves continual struggle. It is only as those of every generation who love democracy resist with all their might the encroachments of its enemies that the ideals of representative government can even be nearly approximated.
~ Fighting Bob La Follette
~ Fighting Bob La Follette