Stanford students/ Student revolt

4/16/16

 

            On this article on who's teaching us, it goes into detail abut how the Stanford university students want some changes to the faculty diversity.  They feel that will these changes will be about more diversity at the school. It all started when a English teacher was denied tenured just because of being queer.  What they wanted more was to including increased diversity, residential space, curriculum, and to meet the needs of students of color.  Furthermore when the faculty is 73 percent white and 73 percent white male, how can at time they feel or even know what we go through everyday.  I feel that one of the best moves a school can make it to make it divers. Second thing is that the faculty should some how resemble our culture here in the valley. To gain some perspective democracy now interviewed LaDoris Cordell, a retired superior court judge. She says that when she attended school that there were no professors of color in our law school. Also she was the only black female in our class at that time.  So to sum this short article up, it's all about having more diversity at all the universities and making changes to the curriculum.

 

            This article just shows how social movement can make a difference if we all get together as one. Second thing is that we should not be discouraged because in the end the change will come, it might not be now or today but it will come. Also it show how the African-Americas have been discriminated and inadequately to racist.  It seems to me that when there are social movements it's all about the demands that we want and to see how far we will go to achieve this.  What really caught my attention is what Brittany Gardner said " with their skin and texture of their hair or their ancestry is why our nation is in a state of uprising.

 

democracynow.org/2015/11/13/in_nationwide_student_revolt_over_campus

democracynow.org/2016/4/14/whos_teaching_us_stanford_students_demand