privilege
Tim’s Tips: Posture
Posture May 3, 2013 – 12:25am Inside Higher Education By Matt Reed When I taught Intro to American Government, I remember being struck at how many students considered politics a spectator sport. At Rutgers, a small number of students seemed to feel entitled to take positions, but at DeVry and the community college, almost none [...]
Tim’s Tips: Letter: White privilege from a white perspective
Letter: White privilege from a white perspective March 03, 2013 11:21 pm • by Zerina Hamulic The Daily Cardinal—University of Wisconsin-Madison I woke up from a nap to countless Facebook posts informing me about an article posted in The Daily Cardinal. The Topic? White Privilege. As I read along, I laughed, I rolled my eyes, [...]
Tim’s Tips: ‘Un-Fair’ Campaign Defended by University of Wisconsin-Superior
‘Un-Fair’ Campaign Defended By University of Wisconsin-Superior The Huffington Post | By Tyler Kingkade Posted: 02/21/2013 1:26 pm EST The University Of Wisconsin-Superior has announced that, despite criticism, the school intends to continue its support for the “Un-Fair” campaign, a local advertising effort to raise awareness of and fight misconceptions about racism. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/unfair-campaign-wisconsin_n_2733426.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003&ir=College
Tim’s Tips: Mothering at Mid-Career: Changing the Subject
Mothering at Mid-Career: Changing the Subject Inside Higher Education December 3, 2012 – 4:22pm Libby Gruner The big story in higher ed this week appears to be the New York Times article that suggests that — hold on to your hats — some people are actually forgoing college and making a living anyway. That this [...]
Tim’s Tips: Complicating “White Privilege”: Race, Poverty, and the Nature of the Knapsack
Complicating “White Privilege”: Race, Poverty, and the Nature of the Knapsack By Paul C. Gorski (gorski@EdChange.org), http://www.EdChange.org, January 1, 2012 In my favorite photograph of my Grandma Wilma, taken during her early teens, she stands outside her Kitzmiller, Maryland, house. The house’s exterior, cracking and worn, hints at the working poor life she and her [...]
Tim’s Tips: Study Disputes Claims That Preferentially Admitted Students Catch Up
January 10, 2012 The Chronicle of Higher Education Study Disputes Claims That Preferentially Admitted Students Catch Up By Peter Schmidt A new study of Duke University undergraduates has found that those who are black or the children of alumni are disproportionately likely to switch from tough majors to easier ones, a move that creates the [...]
Tim’s Tips: ‘Unequal’ Children, All Grown Up
September 11, 2011 The Chronicle of Higher Education ‘Unequal’ Children, All Grown Up By Peter Monaghan The notion that people are born unequal is as un-American as nationalized health care. And yet social scientists have long known not only that Americans start life with varying degrees of privilege but also that socioeconomic differences tend to [...]
Tim’s Tips: Understanding and Dismantling Privilege (Journal)
Journal—Understanding and Dismantling Privilege First issue. (Vol 1, No 1, 2010) http://www.wpcjournal.com/issue/current
