Category: Latina/os
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Sharing very personal Latinx Heritage month celebrations for University of Kentucky College of Education community and my family. Latinx history is American history. See also Hispanic Heritage Month brings push for National Museum of the American Latino In honor of Latinx history month, I hope you will consider matching my $50 gift to the museum…
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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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Colleen, I want to thank you for this important piece. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/10/21/scholars-talk-about-being-black-campus-2020 I have shared with our UK College of Education faculty, all of our university’s deans, VP of Diversity, Provost and President. We are committed to this work at the UK College of Education. One third of the faculty we hired last year were Black…
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I’m looking forward to the conversation today entitled “Examining Higher Education Approaches to Advancing Teacher Diversity” on zoom sponsored by Education Deans for Justice. Education Deans for Justice and Equity (EDJE) is a nationwide alliance of education deans that advances equity and justice in education. The panelists have promised to not to prepare a lot of…
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I truly believe that our deans and other academic leaders can translate their community-engaged, community-relevant work that they have undertaken as researchers and teachers into higher education leadership roles. I am seeking to do that on a daily basis in my role as dean at the University of Kentucky College of Education. https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/1217243906334609409?s=20 As a…
Cloaking Inequity 