From manski at greens.org Wed Feb 21 21:18:12 2007 From: manski at greens.org (Ben Manski) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:18:12 -0600 Subject: [Corporations] New Release: Campus Organizer's Guide to Democratizing Education Message-ID: <45DCFD64.1000701@greens.org> Campus Organizer's Guide to Democratizing Education February 22, 2007 Liberty Tree's Democratizing Education Program is pleased to release the Campus Organizer's Guide to Democratizing Education , 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 . -- 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 -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.corporations.org/pipermail/corporations_corporations.org/attachments/20070221/f8f2de40/attachment.html