Category Archives: College
College Endowments: Why Even Harvard Isn't as Rich as You Think
Reblogged from TIME Ideas: It seems everyone has an opinion about what colleges and universities should do with their endowments. Use them to lower tuition! Let students attend for free! Improve facilities! Hire more professors! When the National Association of … Continue reading
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The New Yorker on Tyler Clementi and Dharun Ravi
The New Yorker wrote up a comprehensive overview of this terrible tragedy. While, as I’ve written before, I think Ravi did an awful, insensitive thing, even bullies are human.
Filed under College, Everyday Life, Gender/Sexuality, Politics/Current Events
Protest cutting Pell Grants!
In the midst of governmental bickering and looming debt crisis, it’s hard to forget a little thing called education. Unfortunately, some Congresspeople think that one way to “compromise” is to cut Pell Grant funding. Now, wherever you stand in the … Continue reading
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Update on Budget, Round Two
Here’s the official response to The Atlanta Journal Constitution. Nine faculty members and fifteen staff members took the early retirement package. Sixteen people were ultimately laid off, at least among the full-time staff. A number of people hired on a contractual … Continue reading
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Important Updates
A.) In important news at Agnes Scott College, the layoffs of faculty and staff have finally been announced. As a concerned member of campus, ever since leaked emails detailing the financial situation of the college (reducing debt load, the draw … Continue reading
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Non-discriminatory Responses to Alexandra Wallace
Let’s put it this way: I couldn’t get through a minute of UCLA student Alexandra Wallace’s racist, possibly exploitative rant about “Asians in the library.” I thought it was ignorant, insensitive, and tasteless. The poor girl, though, does not deserve … Continue reading
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We need to remember this
I just want to salute Ms. McDougall for being the first. Without her, Agnes Scott College wouldn’t have the wildly diverse student body it has today. Of course, we still have tons of work to do (prejudice never really goes … Continue reading
Filed under College, Everyday Life, History, Race/Ethnicity
How to Tell People They Said Something Racist
My wonderful boss, Neil Simpkins, sent this video to me and my fellow Writing Center tutors after a conversation we had about dealing with controversial issues in the tutoring session. Of course, this video can apply to any sticky situation … Continue reading
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Able-bodied Privilege Backpack: What are our privileges? What can we do?
A part of Diversifest, Agnes Scott College’s week-long celebration of diversity, was a sparsely attended panel, “Access. . .A Right NOT a Favor,” on ableism and the lives of people with disabilities on campus. I wish more people had been … Continue reading
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