"I support the students who are still camping out and fighting for racial justice on campus," said Elisa Glick, an associate professor.
There are positive effects of this pursuit of justice on campus.
Students need to show solidarity with our professors in their struggles for justice on campus.
"It reflects faculty support for student activism over the past several years around issues of inclusion, social justice, and campus climate," professor Coffey explains.
Campus-based presenters inspired participants to consider what it means to be social justice leaders on campus, including standing firmly against sexual violence; with specific strategies explored for intervening in everyday situations reeking patriarchy, ranging from lewd comments and gestures directed at women to rape and domestic violence.
"We, the concerned faculty of the University of Missouri, stand in solidarity with the Mizzou student activists who are advocating for racial justice on our campus and urge all MU faculty to demonstrate their support by walking out on Monday November 9 and Tuesday November 10, 2015 along with other allies such as the Forum on Graduate Rights," a statement from the Concerned Faculty group said.
While criminal justice and the campus disciplinary process are two distinct ways of determining someone's responsibility for a wrong, there is of course yet another, a substitute justice system in social and public life, in which the presumption of innocence is not an aspiration.
The "Stanford rape case" became the latest, controversial episode in an ongoing debate sweeping the US about rape culture, privilege in the criminal justice system, and campus safety.
As anyone who's ever attended a conference of the Association for Student Conduct Administrators -- an umbrella group of university administrators involved in campus justice -- already knows, campuses are terrified of such OCR investigations as they are notoriously heavy-handed, onerous, and damaging to a university's reputation.
I go to a great school, I get good grades, I'm very active in social justice movements on campus, yet I have thought about hurting myself many, many times.
