“Education at its best rescues us from ignorance and bias. Many of the nation’s 17 million undergraduates study racism, sexism, homophobia, ethnic and religious hostility, and other types of prejudice. Now more and more faculty members, reasoning that we are not just gendered and racialized by culture but also assaulted by age discrimination, are including the study of age and ageism.”
http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-to-Rescue-17-Million/241162?cid=wcontentgrid_40_2