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Recruitment & Retention
What Will You Do to Embrace Who America Truly is in 2021?
The year 2021 promises to be one of the biggest efforts to recruit diverse talent in history. America’s top companies, nonprofits and schools have the opportunity to not only uproot systemic barriers to advancement, but also leverage diverse perspectives and experiences as a means to innovate, problem solve and provide better products and services.
January 7, 2021
Opinion
Searching for Joy in Struggle
In January 2014, I found myself sitting among a small group of fellow graduate students at the University of Michigan School of Education. We students seemed nervous, because at the end of the table sat Bob Moses — founder of the Algebra Project, educational justice advocate, and one of the key organizers of the Mississippi Freedom Summer voter registration campaign 50 years prior.
October 22, 2020
Opinion
Am I Too Diverse for Academia?
When I turned 7 years old, my friends found it rather strange that my family cooked a pig underground for my backyard birthday party. In high school, my friends were shocked to learn that only one of my parents had a high school diploma. And, in college, I had to explain to friends that it was an endearing greeting when my relatives closely sniffed their cheeks.
October 22, 2020
Opinion
On Who Matters – and Who Doesn’t – in Higher Education
As COVID-19 continues to devastate communities across the U.S., colleges and universities must brace for what is sure to be a hectic Autumn semester, including making difficult decisions that may put many lives on the line.
August 24, 2020
African-American
Calling Asian Americans to Action: Why We Can’t Stay Silent about Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the United States this year, provoked by the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and many others that have not seen full justice. As Asian Americans, we need to assess how we’ve been silent or apathetic to Black issues. It’s time we speak up and do something for Black Lives Matter – because frankly, we haven’t done enough.
July 20, 2020
COVID-19
A Work of Heart: Practicing Critical Compassionate Pedagogy in the Face of Adversity
As a faculty member, my biggest concern was the online (re)creation of a deeply engaged and rich environment, while simultaneously supporting students battling various challenges due to COVID-19 including but not limited to the loss of jobs, mental health conditions, and deaths of family members.
July 17, 2020
Leadership & Policy
‘Dramatic Change Will Require Leadership.’ A Message to the Next Generation of Leaders
This summer we have all been living and learning through an unprecedented crisis: literally the greatest disruption to daily life in the United States since at least World War II, a rapid economic collapse that is approaching and may exceed the scale of the Great Depression, deeply inequitable impacts from the crisis mapped into pre-existing inequalities of race and class, and a death count conservatively estimated at more than 500,000 and rising.
July 7, 2020
Students
How “Different” Will Post-COVID Higher Education Be, Especially for “At-Risk” Students?
How are institutions preparing to deal with access to technology issues? While I can imagine many institutions providing students with laptops, students may encounter barriers to accessing reliable internet or even power for their devices. For residential campuses specifically who will have many students stay home, how do you ensure that your low-income students have access to adequate working space to learn and study?
July 1, 2020
African-American
No Justice, No Peace: How to Come to Terms with Your Own Anti-Blackness
Handcuffed, forcefully pinned down on the asphalt, backed by the heavy weight of a body, knee pressed up against the neck, slowly depriving him of life–George Floyd–gasped for air. Uttering what would become some of his last words, “I can’t move…mama…mama…I can’t breathe.” Floyd was murdered that day at the hands of a white police officer while three others watched. As a nation we witnessed the premature death of yet another Black man at the hands of police.
June 11, 2020
Students
Open Letter to Fortune 1000 CEOs and Corporate Boards
As our nation reels from the death of George Floyd and countless others, youthful protestors of infinite diversity and humanity have taken to the streets, in all corners of America as well as countries abroad, crying out for an end to police brutality, injustice, and systemic racism. As their actions reverberate across society, it is critical that America’s most esteemed and influential leaders from all sectors, including corporate, respond to this new generation’s call to action.
June 11, 2020
Students
A Battle for the Soul of Our Nation
Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a long way from Brunswick, Georgia and Louisville, Kentucky. Yet the three areas are now inextricably linked by the recent tragedies that befell African- American citizens – murdered in those locations by citizen vigilantes or police officers. Each illuminates a teachable moment that we would do well to learn from, and demonstrates that even during a historic pandemic, when we are all supposedly “in this together,” that we still have a long way to go as a society before we truly reach “togetherness.”
June 4, 2020
African-American
The Weaponry of Whiteness, Entitlement, and Privilege
Today, in 2020, African-Americans are sick and tired of not being able to live. African Americans are weary of not being able to breathe, walk, or run. Black men in this country are brutalized, criminalized, demonized, and disproportionately penalized. Black women in this country are stigmatized, sexualized, and labeled as problematic, loud, angry, and unruly. Black men and women are being hunted down and shot like dogs. Black men and women are being killed with their face to the ground and a knee on their neck.
June 1, 2020
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