…they are if you don’t use active learning! From the article:

“Given that active-learning approaches benefit all students, but especially those who are female, minority, low-income and first-generation, shouldn’t all universities be teaching this way?”

Find it here at the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/opinion/sunday/are-college-lectures-unfair.html?_r=0

BTW, I think she’d make a great keynote speaker!