and we were trying to see if there
were similar programs at different
universities that would just be
studying class more broadly, and
there weren’t any,” Schandevel
said. “It’s another way to make
sense of the world, and having
a space to study it as its own
minor gives it some credibility.
And,
hopefully,
we’ll
attract
people across the country who
are studying it in their own ways
to come to the University and
have this be a central location for
analyzing those types of things.”
When
Schandevel
started
looking into creating a new
minor, she met with LSA senior
Meaghan Wheat at the end of their
freshman year. They discussed
the idea further that summer,
then began emailing faculty in
different departments to gauge
interest. After talking with people
from various academic fields,
Schandevel said she and Wheat
met with Rosario Ceballo, who
was the Women’s Studies chair in
the 2017 winter term. Schandevel
said Ceballo expressed interest in
housing a program of class studies
as a minor within the department.
From there, Schandevel said
this partnership turned into a
task force comprised of faculty
from
the
Residential
College
and the Sociology Department.
In addition, the task force had
representation
from
different
groups on campus, including the
Program on Intergroup Relations,
First-Generation College Students,
Black-Asian
Student
Coalition,
South Asian Awareness Network
and Native American Student
Association.
The
group
met
monthly to create the proposal for
the minor.
“We found all the people for
the task force: the faculty and the
students,” Wheat said. “We really
had a goal of having students
who have different identities and
different experiences … so that
we weren’t just getting the same
story about social class over and
over and over again. We wanted
to have that diversity and breadth
of experience, and I think that
we did succeed in that in the
best of our ability. It was a lot of
brainstorming among people who
are super passionate, which was
super empowering to be there and
to listen.”
The task force finished its
work at the end of the Winter
2017 term. To get the minor
approved,
it
would
have
to take its proposal to the
Women’s Studies faculty for a
vote and the LSA Curriculum
Committee to be approved.
Schandevel
said
the
proposal almost failed the
full-faculty vote because of
concerns about the curriculum
requirements
from
some
staff members. One of the key
reasons it passed was because
of faculty like Abby Stewart,
a Sandra Schwartz Tangri
distinguished
university
professor of psychology and
women’s studies, who helped
garner faculty support for the
minor.
Stewart worked with the
Women’s Studies faculty and
edited the proposal based on
their input. In October 2018,
the proposal passed the faculty
vote and now awaits a decision
from the LSA Curriculum
Committee.
“The
task
force
asked
Women’s Studies to consider
sponsoring the minor, and the
Department held discussions of it
last spring, and then discussed it
again this fall and voted to sponsor
it,” Stewart wrote in an email. “We
will propose it to LSA this semester
for their consideration, which will
take place on their timeline.”
In April 2018, former LSA
Dean Andrew Martin emailed
department chairs about the LSA
Executive Committee’s decisionto
place a hold on new minors housed
within
LSA.
The
reasoning,
according to the email, was to
halt the production of new minors
and instead focus on reviewing
existing minors. At the time of the
decision, there were 111 minors
available in LSA.
Though
the
Executive
Committee’s
ruling
stands
through
this
semester
—
theoretically barring approval of
the proposal — Schandevel said the
class minor will receive a decision
thanks to help from LSA Associate
Dean Angela Dillard and other
administrators.
Now, Schandevel said what
happens to the minor is mostly
out
of
the
students’
hands.
She said the Women’s Studies
administrators are tweaking the
proposal based off concerns from
faculty. Then, the administrators
themselves will present it to the
LSA
Curriculum
Committee.
Schandevel
said
Dillard
is
advising the administrators on the
presentation.
While the minor would be
housed in LSA if approved, it is
not restricted to students in other
schools.
Schandevel
has
had
interest from students in the Ford
School of Public Policy and Ross
School of Business, in addition
to students pursuing a variety of
majors within LSA.
Schandevel said she and Wheat
are still in disbelief that the minor
is in its final stages. While she has
had support, she said there have
been people who questioned the
necessity of the minor.
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