Unwelcome in Women's Studies

Autor/in	Kamolnick, Paul
Titel	Unwelcome in Women's Studies
Quelle	In: Academic Questions, 20 (2007) 2, S.122-134 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-4852
DOI	10.1007/s12129-007-9004-z
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Higher Education; Womens Studies; Gender Differences; Controversial Issues (Course Content); Females; Criteria; Administrators; Curriculum Implementation; Politics of Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Geschlechterkonflikt; Controversial issues; Kontroverse; Weibliches Geschlecht; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik
Abstract	In this article, the author presents a case of a professor who, in electing to teach a special-topics course on human sex differences, discovers an entire program in the College of Arts and Sciences--Women's Studies (WMST)--whose criteria for course inclusion are in direct violation of several major rules and regulations governing academics at East Tennessee State University (ETSU). He also presents a detailed account of his attempts to have a bona fide academic course in human sex differences recommended to WMST students; his discovery of the non-academic criteria used by WMST in its consideration of courses appropriate to the program; his inability to get the director of the program to answer key questions related to their decision not to recommend his course; his discovery of the existence of what amounts to an unelected central committee that controls the WMST program; his inability to receive assistance from the College dean despite evidence that he had provided, documenting the non-academic criteria and procedures used by the WMST program; and finally, his decision to end his efforts at reform, and the likely consequences thereof. (Contains 41 footnotes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10