Tag: Education
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Remarks for Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2023 Good afternoon, distinguished guests, esteemed colleagues, and cherished members of our Western Michigan University community. Today, as we stand together to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I found myself contemplating not just the words I would share but the message on my t-shirt.…
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Julian Vasquez Heilig became Dean of the University of Kentucky College of Education in July 2019. Just before the annual holiday break Dean Heilig agreed to 93.1 at the WUKY studios to share his vision leading a College of Education, which hosts nearly 2,500 students in over 70 graduate and undergraduate programs. He discusses teacher…
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The public discourse about education is full of “zip code should not determine destiny” memes. The reasoning is— if we ignore the giraffe driving down the highway (poverty), it won’t exist or matter. The challenge with treating the symptoms of a disease rather than the causes, is that the outcomes remain inconsistent. For example, if…
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Scholars have considered the status of the African American male in recent years, relating terms such as “crisis,” “disappearing,” and “vanishing” regarding his educational experience (Blake & Darling, 1994; Harper, 2006). Social commentators, such as Illinois Tea Party candidate Al Reynolds— who recently remarked that Black men are more interested in drugs than education (Kacich,…
Cloaking Inequity 
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