Over the summer, St. John Fisher hosted the Rochester City School District’s summer program for the second year in a row. Teachers and administrators from RCSD worked with the School of Education to envision and develop the summer school programming for over 250 students that came on campus.
The students were given the opportunity to participate in enrichment courses with Fisher faculty, and many of those faculty members came from the School of Arts and Sciences.
For one of the classes, Dr. Jane Snyder and Professor Fionnuala Regan discussed the recent affirmative action case decided by the Supreme Court. The goal of this particular session was to demonstrate to students the importance of how seeking both sides of an argument is central to law. By looking at both sides of the argument, students would begin to understand the concept of critical thinking to make informed decisions. During the lesson students read an article that presents both sides of affirmative action as well as an excerpt of the case.
