Radicalizing the Liberal Arts: Race and Racism at Small Liberal Arts Colleges

According to this policy, students had to be sure that all sexual interactions were consensual and were expected to check with partners before initiating various kinds of sexual activity. [...]despite a variety of mostly successful efforts to diversify California Lutheran's faculty and student body (they increased Latinx student representation to such an extent that they were designated a Hispanic-Serving Institution by the federal government), students and faculty of color report feeling isolated and lonely, and that the culture of the college does not encourage cross-racial dialogue or meaningful analysis of white supremacy. Strikingly, one side effect of student activism was increased connection between students and faculty. [...]in sharing an activist agenda, both groups worked to counter the power differential between them. [...]students were not able to establish a CGES concentration and their efforts were further undermined by an administrator-founded Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Human Rights, in which students and faculty had minimal input.