#Students#Universities#HigherEd#Neoliberalism#Capitalism#EffectiveAltruism: "Some faculty see the influence of effective altruism among this generation: In the last five years, Roosevelt Montás, a senior lecturer at Columbia University and the former director of its Center for the Core Curriculum, has noticed a new trend when he asks students in his American Political Thought classes to consider their future.
“Almost every discussion, someone will come in and say, ‘Well, I can go and make a lot of money and do more good with that money than I could by doing some kind of charitable or service profession,’” Mr. Montás said. “It’s there constantly — a way of justifying a career that is organized around making money.”
Mr. Desai said all of this logic goes, “‘Make the bag so you can do good in the world, make the bag so you can go into retirement, make the bag so you can then go do what you really want to do.’”
But this “really underestimates how important work is to people’s lives,” he said. “What it gets wrong is, you spend 15 years at the hedge fund, you’re going to be a different person. You don’t just go work and make a lot of money, you go work and you become a different person.”"
Michael Schill, President of Northwestern, defends his treatment of student protesters. Finally, someone pushes back against Elise Stefanik and her likes. Gender, race, ethnicity and expertise are not irrelevant factors. It helps that the president is male, white, Jewish and a legal scholar of free speech. #students#protest
How Residents in a Rural #Alabama County Are Confronting the Lasting Harm of #Segregation Academies
In Wilcox County, Alabama, many people say they want to bridge racial divides created by their segregated #schools. But they must face a long and painful history.