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Cook-Sather, Alison; Cohen, Jody; Alter, Zanny – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2010
In this article we present two programs we have developed at Bryn Mawr College designed to effect socially just change on our campus and beyond. Both programs create forums for dialogue across differently positioned community members and ensure that students assume leadership roles in these efforts. In our discussion we describe the programs,…
Descriptors: College Programs, Social Justice, College Students, Social Change
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McGonigal, Kathryn; Galliher, John F. – American Sociologist, 2008
Sociologist Mabel Agnes Elliott was elected the fourth president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems in 1956-1957 and was the first woman to hold this position. She was an anti-war activist, a feminist and a creative and diligent writer. Yet she experienced many challenges. The Federal Bureau of Investigation kept an active file on…
Descriptors: Females, Sociology, Social Scientists, Biographies
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1908
Volume I begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction of the 1908 report. Chapter I is on current topics and discusses education relations, including professor, teacher and student exchanges. International congresses are discussed, including the first international congress of mothers, parents' national education union, universal…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Peer Relationship, Conferences (Gatherings), Mothers