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Tuesday, August 19, 2003

Truth in advertising 

Posted by Hei Lun : 8:57 PM

Erin O'Connor points to a new college that is explicit in advocating progressive causes:

San Francisco's New College of California is offering something for the socially conscious this fall that they'd never get marching in the streets:

a college degree in activism.

For $5,500 to $6,000 a semester, the 32-year-old Mission District school is offering bachelor's and master's humanities degrees with a concentration in "activism and social change." While schools from Vermont to Santa Cruz boast versions of do-gooding curricula, degrees in activism are hard to come by.

"Students can shape their own (activist) program at other schools," said Michael Baer, senior vice president at the American Council on Education and former provost at Northeastern University. "But to have it all together -- the theoretical and the practical -- under one roof and labeled as such is somewhat rare."
While I don't know what value is there in a degree in "activism and social change", at least they're not pretending to be fair and balanced, and parents know what they're paying for. The irony of course is that this college, which is all for the little guys, will end up with mostly rich kids who had never worked a day in their lives, and they'll be getting training to not do real work for the rest of their lives.
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