Episode notes
“As I was reading Hooks and Freire, a colleague recommended Adrian Rich's essay "Teaching Language in Open Admissions." It was in that essay that I first read about her experiences teaching at CUNY during open admissions, learning that she taught alongside June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Toni Cade Bambara. Eventually, that essay led me to their archival teaching materials. I was really excited because I found in those materials concrete teaching methods, things they were doing in their own classrooms that I then started trying in my classrooms as well. I also really liked their educational philosophies, thinking about what it means for college to be free and the fact that they were teaching during this revolutionary era. What would that look like today? What would it mean? What could free college bring to our society? What does free college make po ...
Keywords
Danica Savonick, Open Admissions, SEEK Program, CUNY, City College, Free College, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Toni Cade Bambara, Black Arts Movement, Pedagogy, Feminism, Neoliberalism, Student Activism, Educational Equity, Community Orga