Ithaca College
Lewis and Clark College
Rollins College
University of Rochester
Ithaca College is social justice-y. Lewis and Clark College is social-y but not justice-y, Rollins College is social-y and justice-y. I don’t know about the University of Rochester.
Is social justice-y something you WANT or do not want? Are you a junior considering what colleges to apply to or a senior with acceptances in hand deciding which college to attend?
If you are a junior, and if a commitment to social justice is something you want, I would consider schools like
Oberlin
Pitzer
San Francisco State
Mills
UC Berkeley
Smith
Wesleyan
NYU
I’m sure there are many other great schools which fit this description, but these are a few that sprung to mind.
Tufts Bowdoin Hampshire Vassar UVM Brown RISD Sarah Lawrence Bard Barnard
New School BU and parts of a hundred more.
The social justice emphasis is definitely there at Rochester if you want to get involved. But that’s definitely not the only orientation among students there.
Actually I’m looking for a school that isn’t TOO social justice-y. I don’t somewhere conservative but I also don’t want somewhere that everyone is constantly yelling at each other about cultural appropriation.
@mollyamanda Rochester should be fine for you then. Students there are generally pretty laid back. They might raise an eyebrow once in a while and there will posters and an occasional article in the newspaper, but they’re generally not a yell-y bunch from what I’ve seen.
Political activity of any type tends to be lower at commuter-based universities and community colleges, compared to mainly residential universities.
But where there is political activity, some of it (of any alignment) could be intentionally obnoxious to attract attention (though sometimes such attention ends up being opposition, not support).