My name is stephen rodriguez. Im a student at the new mayor w americas foundation. Why liberal arts ruled the world and scott and i have known each other for a little while now. H when he first approached me about this, i immediately thought of my freshman year in college when i was deciding what i should major in. I loved history and Political Science but i quickly thought id want to be sure i get a job coming out of college. So i decided to meet the professional world halfway and major in business. But when i talked to him it made sense. Cott abo my career i can any of yours takes the many pivots and turns. I realized no realize now what w then is that int many ways liberal arts or business as the ability in the Technology World for innovation in general. So, with that i want to turn over to scott. I know scott from our time in new york. Hed like myself spend time in the Venture Capital world and v worked with google, facebook and pretty much as has a dream rese and importantly for t
Booktv on cspan2 we are on location at Claremont College in california where were discussing talking with professors also authors. Passing on the right conservative professors from the Progressive University is the coauthor. Professor, a page number one you manage your coauthor right that the conservatives are so scarce. They are. Less than 5 of social scientist self identify as conservatives. About 18 percent are marxist so they are badly outnumbered they are that scarce. To use self identify as a conservative . I do. I a rare and strange creature. So the thought is conservative professors on liberal arts campuses baja are intimidated . Right. The recent conservatives are an Enemy Territory but that is not what we found we interviewed all professors in they tell us that university is much more tolerant and more than write wing critics. What specifically did you hear . Tavis is partly because they are not as politicized as we think they are and conservatives gravitate hough so they oft
But there will be divergence as well. The way the differences tend to be around issues of social welfare policy and by this i mean writ large, education policy, healthcare policy, policies that have to do with children, the elderly, women are more willing to see the government as a positive force in terms of these particular issues more so than men. Women, some parents might it is more sophisticated than that. A more positive attitude towards state involvement providing for healthcare, supporting education, supporting childcare, supporting Maternal Health and other Health Issues as well. The other arena is around issues of Foreign Policy and peace. These are not stereotypical differences between men and women but women are much less, women are more reluctant to see the National Government involve the United States in military conflicts abroad. Women are less likely to support the use of force by the military by the us political system. Women are more likely to be supportive of issues t
Wouldnt be understating the intolerance that exists there. And you know i think the right should not copy the politics of the left by overstating the intolerance that does exist. Host professor, have universities always been largely liberal institutions . Guest yeah for very long time, that certainly the case. We dont have very good survey data prior to the 60s but a lot of the evidence that does exist that University Faculties were quite liberal throughout the 20th century certainly so they have been ripped liberal for very long time. They do seem to have become more liberal in the 60s and 70s the new left and particularly as feminists entered the universities in the 70s. It drifts to the left but its been a broadly liberal institution for a long time. Having said that the political makeup of the university is defined this way so its much more conservative than the Natural Science for example that in the social sciences or the humanities and within the social science its berries as we
Act of justice. They have not engage in some of the Critical Thinking activities about narratives, about deconstructing norms, about understanding where these ideas and its there historical roots of somebodys ideas on why only certain stories get told and not others. What is the process for the storytelling to occur. Wheres the breakdown of . So thinking about all of these components and understanding how others reenact aspects of black femininity which are inconsistent with our existence or which we may find funny in some spaces but are actually demeaning or insulting and others. They have got to be able to differentiate and so i think in a curriculum that you are developing, any ideas for ways of talking to young people about those things are very valuable. The other thing that is important and other programs are doing is teaching girls how to construct their own narrative based on their own experiences how to ask questions that they feel are being asked or if they look at something