While some experience using a comuter is desirable, it is not necessary. He is a former Community Council Chair and has sat on two committees of the Board of Trustees. Interests include alternative education, macroeconomics, college hockey and community building. Erik Hopp is a third year student concentrating in education and sociology. He is very involved in the campus community and is interested in alternative education, radical politics, and true democracy.
Cooperatives are worker and consumer owned companies that are democratically managed.
The class will briefly review existing cooperatives in other industries as well as other non-cooperative alternative models already used in higher education outside of Hampshire. Readings will include exerpts from texts on cooperatives as well as alternative education. The ideas generated from these readings will provide material for a new way of thinking about education at Hampshire. The course will be conducted as a group workshop designing alternative models for Hampshire and evaluating them based on their desirability and feasability. She has spent time on the road and enjoys writing about her life and experiences.