Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Oberlin Used to be An Elite Christian College

Students at Oberlin College are asking the school to put academics on the back burner so they can better turn their attention to activism. More than 1,300 students at the Midwestern liberal arts college have now signed a petition asking that the college get rid of any grade below a C for the semester, and some students are requesting alternatives to the standard written midterm examination, such as a conversation with a professor in lieu of an essay.
The students say that between their activism work and their heavy course load, finding success within the usual grading parameters is increasingly difficult. "A lot of us worked alongside community members in Cleveland who were protesting," Megan Bautista, a co-liaison in Oberlin's student government, said, referring to the protests surrounding the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by a police officer in 2014. "But we needed to organize on campus as well — it wasn't sustainable to keep driving 40 minutes away. A lot of us started suffering academically."

2 comments:

  1. If I was in a position to hire college graduates, I'd surely question one from Oberlin, if not reject them out of hand.

    This is one of those huge "WTF?" moments, what is this world coming to?

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  2. I suppose this is what you get when you are told from birth that you are so "special!"

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