Category: Wisdom
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Have you ever started imagining a future that didn’t exist yet? I was looking at houses in Honolulu, a city where I did not live. I had not been offered a job there. I was not even sure I would become a finalist for President of the University of Hawaii. Yet somewhere along the way…
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The tears kept coming and they wouldn’t stop. Ten years ago, I stood inside the National Center for Civil and Human Rights holding the hand of my eight-year-old daughter. We had spent the morning moving through exhibits about slavery, segregation, lynching, and the long struggle for civil rights. Then we reached a section of the…
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Have you ever spent months looking forward to something? A vacation. A long-awaited trip. A graduation. A championship game. A reunion with people you love. You think about it constantly. You imagine how it will feel. You count down the days on the calendar. Then suddenly it arrives. Before you know it, the moment has…
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There is an uncomfortable question that creeps into the mind at certain points in a career: Have I already peaked? The internal debate can arrive after a major award. It can arrive after a title change. It can arrive after leaving a high-profile role. Maybe you won a championship. It can arrive at a certain…
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The University of Texas tried to intimidate me as an untenured professor because my research challenged one of Texas’s most politically protected education policies. That is not an exaggeration. It is what happened. Long before today’s escalating political fights over DEI, curriculum bans, and ideological loyalty in higher education, I experienced firsthand how political pressure…
Cloaking Inequity 
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