Oberlin College is hiring Social Justice Education Facilitators, according to an online job posting. The position pays students to indoctrinate their peers through social justice activism and the creation and implementation of social justice curriculum.
The position offers a compensation of $8.15 an hour for implementing the Oberlin Multicultural Resource Center’s “social justice curriculum and education program.”
One of the paramount duties students will be required to do involves conducting various forms of training presumably in order to advance social activism on campus. These trainings include “Power, Privilege, and Oppression Training, Beyond the Binary Training, and Microaggressions Trainings.”
Along with recruiting for and managing other students into a Student Justice Education Facilitator’s directory, students will be mandated to act as an official “campus leader and consultant on social justice curriculum and education.” Additionally, the appointed students will be required to catalog “various resources on anti-oppression work.”
To be eligible for employment as a facilitator, student applicants must be in their 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th year. Students must also be well-informed on “various forms of oppression.” The job posting offers examples such as ability, citizenship, class, gender, race, and sexuality.
The position lasts for two semesters, and the chosen facilitators will be required to work shifts between five and six-and-a-half hours per week.
According to the homepage for the MRC, the center “serves as a gathering place for the collaborative support of historically disenfranchised communities and works on issues of diversity and inclusion within a social justice context at Oberlin College & Conservatory.”
The MRC defines the disenfranchised as students of color, LGBTQ students, international students, first-generation college students, low-income students, DACA/undocumented students, students with disabilities, and more.
Oberlin College is not the only campus to have such a program. According to the College Fix, Texas Tech, Florida State University, and the University of Richmond are also paying students to become social justice advocates.
Isaiah Denby is a college freshman from Tampa Bay, Florida studying economics and political science.
