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An Incomplete City, September 2019. Collective student work by G Braunstein, C Brundege, A Elkafas, A Galloway, D Groves, T Jean-Louis, H Levin, Z Lynch, J McVicker, A Shenk, A Treadwel.. Workshop led by Prof. Adams and Santoyo-Orozco.
This spring, the first year of classes came to a close at a new undergraduate program in architecture at Bard College, a 2,000-student liberal arts school in rural Annandale, New York. According to the co-directors, Professors Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco and Ross Exo Adams, designing Bard Architecture’s new curriculum has been an opportunity to rethink architectural education by asking: “What is architecture in the first place?”
Two colleges in the US will be offering courses that are centered around teaching students Marxist “black political and feminist theories” that will assist them in activism to abolish the police.
The classes, “#Abolishthepolice” and “Abolishing Prisons and the Police,” will be taught at Davidson College in North Carolina and Bard College in New York, respectively.
DAVIDSON COLLEGE
The “critical black studies” class at Davidson teaches students that non-whites and LGBT people are disproportionately targeted, causing them to be “routinely” surveilled, arrested, incarcerated, and sexually assaulted by police officers. They intend to use radical “social and political philosophies” to decry policing in all forms, including what they define as “police militarization.”
Soros-Funded Bard College Course: ‘Abolishing Prisons and the Police’
8 Jul 2021
A small private college that received a $500 million donation from leftist billionaire George Soros is featuring a course this fall that aims to teach students how to “sell” abolishing prisons and the police.
Bard College, located in Annandale-on-Hudson in Dutchess County, New York, lists “Abolishing Prisons and the Police” as a course for the coming fall semester.
Kwame Holmes is scheduled to teach the course, which has the following description:
This course explores what’s to be gained, lost and what we can’t imagine about a world without prisons. Through the figure of abolition (a phenomenon we will explore via movements to end slavery, the death penalty, abortion, gay conversion therapy and more) we will explore how and why groups of Americans have sought to bring an absolute end to sources of human suffering. In turn, we will explore a history of the punitive impulse in American