What a narrow and reactionary document - nothing about combatting “ageism”, which leaves most of us on the list vulnerable to continued oppression!
> On Mar 10, 2016, at 8:25 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/10/western-washington-university-students-push-sweeping-demands > > <https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/10/western-washington-university-students-push-sweeping-demands> > ------------------------------snip > Now a student group there calling itself the Student Assembly for Power and > Liberation has sent a list of far-reaching demands > <http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/students-for-power-and-liberation-demands-wwu> > to the university’s president after criticizing the administration > <http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article46488630.html> for an > inadequate response to threats. > The list comprises some of the most of the most expansive -- and resource > heavy -- demands put to a university’s administration. Among them: > > A new College of Power and Liberation to focus on “the study of histories and > communities that continue to be mis- and underrepresented into the mainstream > curriculum at Western.” In addition to the college itself, the list calls for > “a cluster hire of 10 tenure-track faculty,” a new building to house the > college and that the Student Assembly for Power and Liberation have “direct > input and decision-making power over the hiring of faculty for the college.” > That $45,000 be allocated to compensate students and faculty “doing > de-colonial work on campus,” which is defined as “providing space and > resources to learn alternate histories, supporting students' nonacademic > work, emotional and intellectual labor that is not about publishing or > service to the institution, providing often unrecognized trainings, workshops > and/or interventions on behalf of students.” > The creation of a 15-person student committee called the Office for Social > Transformation “to monitor, document and archive all racist, antiblack, > transphobic, cissexist, misogynistic, ableist, homophobic, Islamophobic and > otherwise oppressive behavior on campus.” Using a three-strike system, the > committee would have the power to take disciplinary action up to and > including dismissal against faculty members who receive citations for > creating “an unsafe classroom environment.” > A mandatory online survey conducted by the faculty and administration that > would “allow Western Washington University community members to > confidentially express concerns of discrimination and safety.” > A new “multicultural residence building,” applications to which would be > overseen by the new Office for Social Transformation. > And finally that the university provide tuition reimbursement to “any Western > Washington University student who has been targeted by, harassed by or has > experienced excruciating acts of violence that [were] racialized, sexualized, > gendered, based on ability, employment status, citizenship and/or mental > health from the university.” > The petition also included several uses of the words "persxn" and "hxstory," > which some online were quick to mock > <http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/07/the-college-that-wants-to-ban-history.html>. > Replacing certain letters in pronouns or some other words (like "Latinx" for > Latino or Latina > <https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/12/08/students-adopt-gender-nonspecific-term-latinx-be-more-inclusive>) > with an X is strategy to avoid gendered language. Changing other words, like > "person" and "history," in that way does not appear to be a very common at > all, however: neither "hxstory" nor "persxn" have been used often enough to > be graphable by Google Trends. > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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