Alice E. Ginsberg said: "The whoe idea of women's studies is to make visible what has been invisible and to make conscious what has been overlooked or silenced.
Ginsberg quoted the civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois: "If our work is not in some way threatening to the established order, we're on the wrong track."
2. American uni. students learning experiences
Promoting Engagement for All Students: The Imperative to Look Within—2008 Results, an annual report providing comparative data on student experiences at four-year institutions in the U.S., conducted by the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) revealed a number of promising and disapointing findings (almost 380,000 students in 722 institutions), some of which are particularly worth further explanation and investigation.
a. Nearly two-thirds of first-year students and three-fourths of seniors at least sometimes discussed ideas from their readings or classes with faculty members outside of class. (what about the rest of them?)
b. One out of five first-year students and seniors reported that they frequently came to class without completing readings or assignments. (emphasis mine. Is it not quite serious?)
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