Sure — you may be adept at science, technology, engineering or mathematics; but how’s your Black Feminism aptitude? A prestigious research institution can help you level up. Stanford Unihool’s Office of Inclusion, Community and Integrative Learning (ICIL) describes it thusly:
In addition to working your mathematical magic or scientific sorcery, you can oppose oppression — of a certain sort:
Stanford’s site lists CCC&AOP resources:
Also recommended: “Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast.” Combining STEM and social justice isn’t exactly a novel move. Education has accepted a new mission as ideology has entered myriad American arenas: California’s ‘Social Justice Academy’ Primes Students for Success — They Just Can’t Read or Do Math University Hires Social Justice Center to Help Top Staff Embrace ‘White Inferiority’ University President Sends a Letter Announcing the School’s Top Priority: Racial Justice and Equity Professor: Cancer Researchers Should Show Their Faces to Prove They Aren’t White Mental Health Journal’s Article on ‘Parasitic Whiteness’ Laments There’s ‘Not Yet a Permanent Cure’ Scientific American: The Racist Myth of Binary Sex Wasn’t Invented ‘Til Nearly 1800 Back to Stanford, it’s impressively adroit at making woke waves. While guest speaker and Fifth Circuit Appellate Judge Kyle Duncan faced a disruptive student mob recently, DEI dean Tirien Steinbach questioned whether the “juice” of free speech is “worth the squeeze.” As for testimonies in praise of the Certificate in Critical Consciousness and Anti-Oppressive Praxis, they’re offered online. From an Education Ph.D. candidate:
Courtesy of an Environmental Fluid Mechanics doctorate student: “I feel more informed on ever |
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