BY CHELSEY SAUNDERS “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela Jump to Section: So What? | Why Are You – We – Here? | Overcoming the Apartheid of TC | The First Step is Student Voice | Next Steps My first experience with a standardized… Read More Long Walk to #OneTC
BY TOMÁS ROCHA LAPES stands for the Latin American Philosophy of Education Society. The organization publishes an annual journal, Lápiz. The following timeline highlights LAPES’ past, present, and future activities and events: The diversity of populations in Latin America, as well as the region’s political, cultural, and economic achievements and challenges, have all uniquely shaped… Read More Welcome to LAPES
BY ALLISON BALDWIN When I attended the Newark campus of Rutgers University in New Jersey during my undergraduate career, every September the Office of Student Life and Leadership would host a Student Organization Symposium. This event, which usually happened during the first three weeks of the year, allowed representatives of the 30 plus organizations to… Read More Teachers College Needs Greater Student Organization Presence
BY SAM LIM In the fall of 2013, the Department Representatives to the TC Student Senate for Education Policy and Social Analysis (EPSA), Sam Lim and Tamara Sacks, sat down with EPSA Department Chair, Professor Jeff Henig, to discuss potential ideas to build greater community within the department. Among the ideas discussed was an intriguing… Read More Fisrt Student Advisory Council Formed
BY BARRY GOLDENBERG This month, the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) of the Columbia University Senate—a University-wide legislature and policy-making body representing faculty, students, and other constituencies across all 20 school and affiliates—released the inaugural Quality of Life Report (QoL) to the public. As Teachers College’s sole student representative on SAC and the University Senate, I… Read More Quality of Life at TC
BY DANIEL SOULESLES One of the first interviews the Institutional Affairs Committee of the Student Senate did in its effort to interview everyone who has a budget line at Teachers College was with a senior administrator. It was a nice, friendly conversation. We talked about the administrator’s office, all the things it did, the office’s… Read More Admin Empowered, Faculty and Students Less So, Report Finds
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