BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org
PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:Indybay-18648056
SEQUENCE:18716475
CREATED:20100516T193800Z
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Matisons will deliver a talk: “Left to Our Own Devices: Gender 
 and Higher Education in the Contemporary United States.”  \nAfter 
 returning to Sacramento from a one-year sojourn to Miami, Florida where she 
 tutored mostly immigrant children in the city's failing schools, Michelle 
 Matisons now teaches general education courses at the Institute of 
 Technology in Roseville. Her transitions from Sacramento State University 
 professor to elementary/middle school tutor to vocational college 
 instructor have kept education issues at the forefront of her 
 thinking.\nThis talk will compare and contrast discourses about gender and 
 race/class standpoints in higher education.  While women are graduating 
 from college at higher rates than men, they still suffer widespread gender 
 based income disparities.  Meanwhile, we are faced with a crisis in higher 
 education regarding admission and retention of men of color; this is 
 largely due to the "New Jim Crow" racism of the prison industrial complex.  
 Matisons will examine these social dynamics and discuss potential 
 implications for social movement organizing today.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/16/18648056.php
SUMMARY:Left to Our Own Devices: Gender and Higher Education in the Contemporary United States
LOCATION:Sierra 2 Center, Garden Room, 2791 24th St., Sacramento
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/16/18648056.php
DTSTART:20100521T020000Z
DTEND:20100521T040000Z
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR