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My dissertation is just about done, and I’ve begun circulating it to folks for comment. This morning, one erudite friend dropped me a line to tell me something I probably should have known.
A new addition to the blogroll: Black On Campus.
It’s a great blog, with all sorts of material on black students, black faculty, and other issues relating to African-American higher education past and present. Just a really rich resource. I’ve already spent a chunk of the morning over there, and it’s going to be a regular read for me from now on.
The student government of Ottawa’s Carelton University has apologized for passing a resolution withdrawing its support for cystic fibrosis fundraising.
As we noted over the weekend, the Carleton student government had announced that it was dropping cystic fibrosis research as a beneficiary of its fundraising efforts because it had learned that the disease “only affect[ed] white people, and primarily men.” Neither of those statements turned out to be true.
At a packed public meeting on Monday, the president of the student government personally apologized for the resolution. The student government then went on to unanimously pass a resolution of apology, as well as a separate resolution pledging to increase campus cystic fibrosis fundraising going forward.
The author of the original resolution has resigned his position in student government.
For Student Power has a meaty new post up on tactics and strategies for organizing around campus budgeting issues in this time of economic crisis. Check it out.
An IT administrator at Amherst College has posted a Harper’s Index style list of facts about the incoming class. Some fascinating stuff there with relevance for student organizing.
The relationship of college students to the internet has been transformed in the last few years. In 2003, 33% of Amherst applicants applied online. This year, 89% did. Of 438 first-year students this fall, just 14 brought desktop computers with them, and only 5 have landline phone service. (That’s five students, not five percent.)
On the other hand, the class of 2012 Facebook group has 432 members.
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