{"id":16,"date":"2017-03-16T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T23:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/?p=16"},"modified":"2017-03-20T22:38:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T05:38:16","slug":"liberal-arts-education-for-future-change-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/2017\/03\/16\/liberal-arts-education-for-future-change-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Arts Education for A Better Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17\" class=\"wp-image-17 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/SCU_Mission_and_Palm_Trees-1024x308.jpg\" alt=\"Source\" width=\"584\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/SCU_Mission_and_Palm_Trees-1024x308.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/SCU_Mission_and_Palm_Trees-300x90.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/SCU_Mission_and_Palm_Trees-768x231.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doesn&#8217;t this look like paradise? (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:SCU_Mission_and_Palm_Trees.jpg\">Source<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>\u201cUplift our voices!\u201d \u201cDON\u2019T TAKE AWAY OUR VOICES!!\u201d<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students of Santa Clara University raised their voices marching through the middle of campus and the cafeteria on SCU&#8217;s Day of Giving (see video below<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">). The protest came after school administration\u00a0decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/thesantaclara.org\/administration-overrides-asg-approves-tpusa\/#.WM3nTDsrI2w\">overturn SCU\u2019s student senate\u2019s decision to deny TPUSA<\/a>\u2015Turning Point USA, a fiscally conservative economics club\u2015from becoming an official club. Many students raised their voices against the administration&#8217;s decision to override the students&#8217; decision, and for SCU to become a more inclusive campus, on the day the university promoted itself with the hashtag #AllinforSCU.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ips EDD67784 AC3C 412F 8875 AD5342A924DA\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5c5ibeIuh3Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Protests and activism are not new ideas to college campuses. From <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2016\/11\/15\/u-va-students-faculty-deeply-offended-by-university-president-quoting-thomas-jefferson-the-schools-founder\/?utm_term=.09b191292bb6\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">fighting against the founder of the college for having slaves<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (yes they are protesting Thomas Jefferson, the Founding Father) to UC Berkeley being the center of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/gallery\/2014\/nov\/15\/berkeley-a-history-of-disobedience-in-pictures\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">protests in the 60s and 70s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, we have seen many demonstrations\u00a0throughout the decades. Yes, some may seem insignificant, but they certainly have and still do exist, every time bringing some issues to the forefront.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23\" class=\"wp-image-23 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/7d628b93-f8cf-4fc6-a8dc-933806e6d819-2060x1236-1024x614.jpeg\" alt=\"The doors on the buildings at UC Berkeley only have one handle...to prevent protesters from chaining them.\" width=\"584\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/7d628b93-f8cf-4fc6-a8dc-933806e6d819-2060x1236-1024x614.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/7d628b93-f8cf-4fc6-a8dc-933806e6d819-2060x1236-300x180.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/7d628b93-f8cf-4fc6-a8dc-933806e6d819-2060x1236-768x461.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/7d628b93-f8cf-4fc6-a8dc-933806e6d819-2060x1236-500x300.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/7d628b93-f8cf-4fc6-a8dc-933806e6d819-2060x1236.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The doors on the buildings at UC Berkeley only have one handle&#8230;to prevent protesters from chaining them. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/gallery\/2014\/nov\/15\/berkeley-a-history-of-disobedience-in-pictures\">Source<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But now, these displays of activism are more important than ever. The U.S. has arguably never been more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ap.org\/explore\/divided-america\/\">divided <\/a>through the political climate, seen through\u00a0the election and the partisan response to it. People seem to have more hate than love to spread. Instead of listening to the other side, we continue to keep our ears shut and live in the bubble by surrounding ourselves with people who have the same opinions. It seems as if there is no way to escape from the spiral of doom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So what is necessary to fix this large-than-life problem? What can we do to make movements that actually turn people around? How can we spread an idea <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">beyond just a specific group to make an impact on society?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>1, Friends.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0And not just friends, but friends we are really, really close with. We are <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">often receptive of our closest friends; if they ask us to go with them to dinner or join a club, we will at least give them thought and in many instances will do exactly what they say. These connections are the foundations of protests. By spreading ideas through people who really care about each other, we can create a movement that has significant power. Take a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2010\/10\/04\/small-change-malcolm-gladwell\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1960 protest at Greensboro by students at North Carolina A.&amp;.T.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for example. This famous sit-in to fight against racial segregation started just by four African-American students who shared the dream of being treated equal to their White counterparts. If they could do it in the 60s, why can\u2019t we do it now?<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22\" class=\"wp-image-22 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/1154954_630x354.jpg\" alt=\"Actual pictures from the 1960 protest (Source)\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/1154954_630x354.jpg 630w, https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/1154954_630x354-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/1154954_630x354-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actual pictures from the 1960 protest. It was all started by four college friends. (<a href=\"http:\/\/abc13.com\/education\/tsu-students-recreate-first-sit-in-in-houston-in-1960\/1231830\/\">Source<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #ff0000\"><strong>2, A real understanding of the issues<\/strong>.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Skimming books or getting information from Fox News and CNN is not enough to actually understand the issues. <a href=\"http:\/\/inequality.org\/income-inequality\/\">Inequality<\/a>, for example, is not a matter of\u00a0some people happening to be rich and others were not being as lucky. It is a systemic issue that has evolved over a long period of time, requiring intense research and thought to decipher. Simply put, to start a movement we must know what and how\u00a0to change something, and when we say \u201cI know\u201d that means we need to\u00a0understand it inside out.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25\" class=\"wp-image-25 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/U.S._Income_Shares_of_Top_1_and_0.1_1913-2013.png\" alt=\"Income inequality at a all time high, but why? (Source)\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/U.S._Income_Shares_of_Top_1_and_0.1_1913-2013.png 960w, https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/U.S._Income_Shares_of_Top_1_and_0.1_1913-2013-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/U.S._Income_Shares_of_Top_1_and_0.1_1913-2013-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/U.S._Income_Shares_of_Top_1_and_0.1_1913-2013-400x300.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Income inequality is at an all time high, but why? (<a href=\"http:\/\/eml.berkeley.edu\/~saez\/\">Source<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have the privilege of studying at Santa Clara University, a medium-sized liberal arts university located in California. Here we have close proximity to peers and faculty as we live right on campus and have a low faculty-to-students ratio. In fact, once a professor replied to my email in six minutes. So that checks off <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>R<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>equirement 1<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of having a network of close \u201c<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">friends<\/span>.\u201d SCU also prides itself on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scu.edu\/aboutscu\/jesuit-catholic-tradition\/\">Educating the whole person<\/a>,\u201d necessitating students to take classes outside of their major and indulge in experiential learning. This philosophy is common in all liberal arts schools, whose mission is to educate well-rounded students.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Requirement 2<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, check. Here we have all the tools for reaching a <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">deep understanding of social issues<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everyone should be engaged in the social issues. This can be done by\u00a0keeping up with the news, talking to neighbors, or reading history books. However, to make a movement, to change something, we must take a step further. And who are those in the best position to start a protest which will gain national recognition? <strong>Us. <\/strong>Students<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>at liberal arts universities. We have all the tools, skills, and resources necessary, and it is more a question of our interest and motivation than our ability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We can to take a stand for society. What are we waiting for?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-26 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/time-for-a-change-897441_1920-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"time-for-a-change-897441_1920\" width=\"584\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/time-for-a-change-897441_1920-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/time-for-a-change-897441_1920-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/time-for-a-change-897441_1920-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/time-for-a-change-897441_1920-451x300.jpg 451w, https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/time-for-a-change-897441_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PS: Shout out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100008853584264\/videos\/1646988595606244\/\">Julie Perales<\/a> for letting me use her footage of the march on SCU&#8217;s Day of Giving!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cUplift our voices!\u201d \u201cDON\u2019T TAKE AWAY OUR VOICES!!\u201d &nbsp; Students of Santa Clara University raised their voices marching through the middle of campus and the cafeteria on SCU&#8217;s Day of Giving (see video below). The protest came after school &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/2017\/03\/16\/liberal-arts-education-for-future-change-draft\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1921,"featured_media":17,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"gutentor_comment":0,"qubely_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/SCU_Mission_and_Palm_Trees.jpg",2545,766,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/SCU_Mission_and_Palm_Trees.jpg",1200,361,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/SCU_Mission_and_Palm_Trees.jpg",540,163,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/SCU_Mission_and_Palm_Trees-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/SCU_Mission_and_Palm_Trees-300x90.jpg",300,90,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/SCU_Mission_and_Palm_Trees-768x231.jpg",584,176,true],"large":["https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/SCU_Mission_and_Palm_Trees-1024x308.jpg",584,176,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/SCU_Mission_and_Palm_Trees.jpg",1536,462,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/SCU_Mission_and_Palm_Trees.jpg",2048,616,false],"qubely_landscape":["https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/SCU_Mission_and_Palm_Trees.jpg",1200,361,false],"qubely_portrait":["https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/SCU_Mission_and_Palm_Trees.jpg",540,163,false],"qubely_thumbnail":["https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/SCU_Mission_and_Palm_Trees.jpg",140,42,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/SCU_Mission_and_Palm_Trees-940x198.jpg",940,198,true],"large-feature":["https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/SCU_Mission_and_Palm_Trees.jpg",957,288,false],"small-feature":["https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/files\/2017\/03\/SCU_Mission_and_Palm_Trees.jpg",500,150,false]},"qubely_author":{"display_name":"JJ","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/author\/jburwell\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/category\/education\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Education<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"&nbsp; \u201cUplift our voices!\u201d \u201cDON\u2019T TAKE AWAY OUR VOICES!!\u201d &nbsp; Students of Santa Clara University raised their voices marching through the middle of campus and the cafeteria on SCU&#8217;s Day of Giving (see video below). The protest came after school &hellip; Continue reading &rarr;","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}