Education for Action: Undergraduate and Graduate Programs that Focus on Social Change. . - Activism 101 - book review

Whole Earth, Spring, 2002

Joan Powell, ed. 2001; 185 pp. $12.95 Food First Books

If I didn't love Whole Earth's charming office so much, I would drop my keyboard and run off to Wayne State University in Detroit to pursue Labor Studies. I've never been to Michigan, but such is the driving energy behind this book. Peruse the eighty colleges and their 300-plus courses listed here to find the school that best fits your needs. Choices range across Black Press and US History (University North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Battered Women and the Law (Northeastern University School of Law), Island Economics (University of Massachusetts, Lowell), Plant Pathology (University of Maine). With contact information readily available and a well-organized index, Education for Action gives a good starting point for determining where to spend time, energy, and tuition. College is tough, baby. You might as well go for a good reason. --Devon King

"Earlham College's Peace and Global Studies (PAGS) program has gained a national and international reputation in its twenty years of existence. This recognition emerges from Earlham's solid commitment to peace education as it derives from the Quaker identity of the institution, from the presence of a number of faculty with national recognition in the field of peace research, and from the unusual mixture of opportunities provided at the undergraduate and graduate levels through religious studies at the Earlham School of Religion.

"The University of Arizona's Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in American Indian Studies (AISP) seeks to develop, through research and scholarship, a wider scope of understanding of the indigenous peoples of the Americas--their languages, culture, traditions, and sovereignty. The program fosters interaction and supports productive scholarly activities with American Indian communities throughout the country. The master's program offers opportunities for advanced study in the concentrations of American Indian law and policy, American Indian societies and cultures, American Indian languages and literatures, and American Indian education.