Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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Recently, Bob Greenberg, a retired teacher reached out to me about the The Brainwaves Video Anthology. He relayed: I am filming the “best and brightest” minds in education, the thinkers and doers: Noam Chomsky, Elijah Anderson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cornel West, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Molefi Kete Asante, Ken Burns, Bill Ayers, Jonathan Jansen, Eddie Glaude, Jr., Carol Dweck, Elizabeth…
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Many people may not know that my research career began because of the mentorship of Dr. Sylvia Hurtado at the University of Michigan. I was paired with Dr. Hurtado via the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. I remember interviewing for her research team, and she told me I could join as long as I didn’t fall…
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A reader sent me the following blog written by Zahal Turkmani, an Afghan American educator living in Arizona. I was born in Afghanistan. My country garners global headlines because of gruesome, horrific events involving Afghan people. However, three decades of conflict and war created inimical effects on Afghan people, including its educational system. Women, school-aged…
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As the outer bands of what used to be Hurricane Ida bring rain to Lexington, my thoughts and prayers are with those that felt its brute force over the weekend. When I was a child, my favorite song was “This Little Light of Mine” I would sing it with fervor! According to Wikipedia, the song…
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I binged watched #TheChair on @Netflix as #homework The show does accurately cover some of the drama and pain of academia. But there is JOY too! The drama makes for better TV apparently. As academic leaders we must focus on the humanity of our work and lead dialogically.
Cloaking Inequity 