University paying students to promote social justice

The University of Kansas is recruiting a “Student Social Justice Educator” to help administrators create “an inclusive campus community through social justice.” According to the job listing, the school is seeking at least one student to serve as an “ambassador, facilitator, and educator” to its Office of Multicultural Affairs, offering $9.00 per hour in exchange for spending 6-8 hours per week assisting the office with “its overall mission of creating an inclusive campus community through social justice.” Specifically, the university explains that the social justice educator will create and facilitate diversity education and social justice programs, including “social justice training, workshops, and/or presentations to student organizations, classes, and/or units or groups on campus.” The student will also be expected to “engage with fellow peer educators to create workshops concerning issues about diversity education and social justice” and “collaborate with fellow peer educators” to promote those projects. (Read more)