Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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This reflection began yesterday with a phone conversation between myself and a colleague who once also served as both a provost and a dean. We compared notes gathered over years of leading teams, mentoring rising leaders, and managing the complicated personalities that appear in every institution. The similarities in our experiences were unmistakable. The behaviors,…
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Every so often, a project you believed in early, before the findings, before the charts, before the national attention, comes back into your life with a clarity that reminds you why the work mattered in the first place. That happened last week when I received a message from my colleague and friend Dr. Catherine Millett…
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I remember hearing “This Little Light of Mine” long before I truly understood it. I was a small child in a church in the early 1980s, surrounded by families who carried both joy and heaviness in their voices. The song moved through an upstairs room in a way that felt familiar even before I could…
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Most people in the continental United States do not understand why coloniality remains an urgent issue in Puerto Rico. They recognize the island through images of beaches and Bad Bunny, but they rarely understand its political reality. What is colonially? Puerto Rico remains an unincorporated territory of the United States, a status created by early…
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I am writing this for a student you know or someone you care about who is figuring out school, college, or the bigger question of who they want to become. If someone comes to mind as you read this, I hope you will send it to them, because sometimes the right message reaches someone at…
Cloaking Inequity 