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THE END OF PROTEST?
American University’s new, draconian policies on campus protests and activism show that DEI, Inc. is a dead-end.
Jeffrey Aaron Snyder is an Associate Professor in the department of Educational Studies at Carleton College. He is a historian of education, whose work examines questions about race, national identity and the purpose of public education in a diverse, democratic society. Snyder is the author of the book, Making Black History: The Color Line, Culture and Race in the Age of Jim Crow. He is a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New Republic, and The Washington Post. Snyder holds a BA from Carleton, an EdM in Learning and Teaching from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a PhD in the History of Education from New York University.
Snyder has a keen interest in issues of academic freedom and free expression, especially as they relate to liberal arts education. He was a Fellow with the University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement during the 2022-2023 academic-year, along with his Carleton colleague Amna Khalid. They focused on threats to academic freedom in Florida, the state at the epicenter of the conservative movement to encourage state intervention in public school classrooms.