Rebuilding the canon: Columbia professors push for diversity in their syllabi Brenda Huang / Senior Staff Illustrator As racial tensions in the United States rise, educators at Columbia are inspecting and restructuring their syllabi to form more diverse canons. By Irie Sentner | February 15, 2021, 9:03 PM
In honor of Black History Month, Spectator is publishing a series on notable Black alumni, scholars, activists, leaders, students, and more whose stories we wish to honor.
As conversations around the persistence of anti-Blackness in American institutions continue to grip the country, some professors at Columbia are seeking to address the lack of diverse representation in their respective fields. Questions regarding which scholars belong in academic canons have long been prevalent at Columbia, especially as they relate to Columbia College’s Core Curriculum. Additionally, Columbia and many of its peer institutions have separated diverse scholarship from established depar
UNSW
AMCDP Statement in Support of Constitutional Democracy in Myanmar
We the undersigned members of the Australia-Myanmar Constitutional Democracy Project (AMCDP), write to condemn the recent coup and arrests of political and community leaders in Myanmar. We support the people of Myanmar as they peacefully resist the military’s constitutionally improper and wilfully undemocratic imposition of a state of emergency.
The AMCDP is a consortium of legal scholars from a range of universities, formed in 2013. Since then, we have conducted a series of workshops in different centres around Myanmar with lawyers, judges, politicians, journalists, students, activists from civil society, ethnic leaders, and interested members of the public . The aim of the workshops has been to foster discussion of the fundamental principles informing constitutional democracy, departing from the premise that constitutional democracy cannot be sustained unless it is built from the bottom up by the people the
Dünya çapında 3 bin 317 düşünür, akademisyen ve öğrenciden Boğaziçi ne destek samanyoluhaber.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from samanyoluhaber.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.