[Corporations] New Release: Campus Organizer's Guide to Democratizing Education

[Ben Manski]

      Campus Organizer's Guide to Democratizing Education

February 22, 2007 


Liberty Tree's Democratizing Education Program 
<http://www.libertytreefdr.org/democratizingEducation.php> is pleased to 
release the Campus Organizer's Guide to Democratizing Education 
<http://www.libertytreefdr.org/files_public/DEN%20Guide%20to%20Campus%20Organizing.pdf>, 
authored by our Associate, Eric Prindle, a recent graduate of NYU Law. 
Prindle wrote the guide for students, faculty, staff, and community 
members interested in promoting democracy in higher education, and a 
higher education system in service to a democratic, inclusive, society.

 >From the introduction to the guide . . .

As students, faculty, and staff at campuses around the country organize 
around issues like tuition reform, affirmative action, and labor rights, 
very often they find themselves coming up against a deficit of democracy 
on their campuses. Although universities and colleges are supposed to be 
structured to serve the needs of students and the interests of the 
general public, they are usually controlled by a small group of 
administrators who increasingly tend to have a corporate mindset that 
excludes democratic participation by their "employees" and "customers."

. . . .

Other guides, handbooks, manuals, etc. are out there to teach you about 
"organizing" or more specifically "grassroots organizing" as general 
subjects. This guide is less of a how-to manual than most of those. It 
is less about skill sharing and more about experience sharing. As new 
generations of students, staff, and faculty deal with the question of 
democracy on their campuses, many of the same issues come up over and 
over again. The purpose of this guide is to look at what these issues 
are and what we can learn from what's worked and what hasn't in the past.


*Additional Information:*
Please download this pdf-format guide by clicking here 
<http://www.libertytreefdr.org/files_public/DEN%20Guide%20to%20Campus%20Organizing.pdf>.


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Ben Manski

LIBERTY TREE
Foundation for the
Democratic Revolution

http://www.LibertyTreeFDR.org/

"If ye love wealth better than liberty . . . may your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."  ~ Samuel Adams 


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Ben Manski

Co-Secretary, Four Lakes Green Party of Dane County
http://www.FourLakesGreenParty.org

"We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable'."  ~ Petra Kelly


See also:

Wisconsin Green Party
http://www.WisconsinGreenParty.org

Green Party of the United States
http://www.GP.org

Liberty Tree
http://www.LibertyTreeFDR.org


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