Social Justice Teaching

From Inside Higher Ed:

By Thomas R. Tritton
What does a college president do after leaving the high intensity rigors of the job? One likely calling is the classroom, whence many of us came in the first place. So after a decade as president of Haverford College, I returned to the classroom at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

Professor Judy McLaughlin � she one of the world�s experts on college presidents � created the unique position at Harvard of �President-in-Residence�. Each year Judy invites one of the newly departed to join the faculty, participate in a seminar on the broad topic of higher education, and teach a course of one�s own design. The usual courses a former president might teach � Theories of Leadership, Fundraising 101, Navigating Campus Politics � seemed too easy and too obvious. I decided instead to angle a different approach, an idea which morphed into: A710f: Social Justice in the Undergraduate Experience. You�ll find it right there in the Harvard catalogue. . . .

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