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Find Your Tribe and You Find Your Health and Success

Those we keep closest to us are a reflection of us and we, in some ways, become like them. Choose to spend the most time with those who mirror the best in you and inspire and encourage you to be better. They are your tribe.

May 3, 2018

False Equivalences Used to Deny Paying College Athletes

I say without equivocation: Enough with the false equivalences. Pay college athletes what they are worth based on the revenues they help generate. In theory, that is how the rest of the world operates, including the sports world.

May 2, 2018

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The Urgency of Supporting the University of Puerto Rico

The economic crisis in Puerto Rico is a humanitarian issue. Puerto Ricans on the island are American citizens. Yet, the struggles of the island and its education system are barely covered in the media.

May 2, 2018

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Predominantly White Institutions, Black Women Grad Students and a Sense of Belonging

While predominantly White institutions should make deliberate efforts to address issues of a lack of sense of belonging among Black women graduate students, there are several strategies that the students themselves can use.

May 1, 2018

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Fix Yo’ Face: Angela Rye, Me, and Cardi B

Over the years, I have heard comments about how I need to control my “emotions” because they are “too expressive,” “offensive” and “disrespectful.” Historical amnesia has stricken the United States regarding women-of-color bodies as objects to be controlled.

May 1, 2018

Cosby Verdict Historic for Women, People of Color, Diversity

When the right verdict was reached in the Bill Cosby trial, it was truly historic. For women, for people of color, for diversity, for anyone who doubts the system to get it right, this is what justice look likes in a changing America.

April 30, 2018

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Bill Cosby Isn’t a Victim

What I did not expect was that we would come to the close of Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month with protracted debates over whether Bill Cosby’s conviction rings hollow because other high-profile perpetrators remain free.

April 29, 2018

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What I Learned (Not) Flying First Class

The problem of privilege, no different than ignorance, is that it need not acknowledge itself. I am as culpable as any of us. Yet for a few, the rank they hold, earned or not, is permanent. The rest of us are aware our situation is but temporary.

April 29, 2018

GlobalMindED: Inclusive Leadership for Education and Lifelong Learning

GlobalMindED represents a unique opportunity for diverse stakeholders to come together to identify collective blind spots and work with people of varying backgrounds so that individual efforts are amplified into an unprecedented impact on eliminating educational equity gaps.

April 26, 2018

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How to Fail: The Lesson We’re Forgetting to Teach Our Students

Our students can learn from small mistakes before they get out into the post-college world and make big one. But, first, we need to allow them the room to make those mistakes — and recover from them.

April 25, 2018

Black Lives Continually Demeaned, Devalued, Dehumanized

Walking while Black. Sitting in a public space while Black. Asking for help while Black. Merely existing while Black. The cold, hard truth is that to be Black in America is to frequently endure an ongoing state of assaults and insults.

April 24, 2018

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Service Learning Could Strengthen Long-Term Student Outcomes

A case study of the early professional success of a former student suggests that service learning holds potential for strengthening long-term outcomes in the journalism discipline.

April 24, 2018

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The Hate U Give

It takes only one person to change the trajectory of youth of color and invest in them when they are at the brink of falling into a system that was designed to disadvantage them.

April 23, 2018

It’s Time to Secure the Vote

In spite of our professed love of voting as one of the most precious and fundamental features of American democracy, the framers crafted a Constitution that doesn’t include an affirmative right to vote.

April 22, 2018

Lessons From Starbucks’ Imperfect Response to Systemic Racism

During our recent time at the American Educational Research Association Conference in New York City, we learned about the now-infamous Starbucks incident and our first reaction was, “Here we go again…”

April 22, 2018

Stress and Overtraining Can Derail Your Workouts

Overtraining is rooted in stress and can sabotage your workouts. To avoid overtraining and get the most out of your workout, you must balance the stress of working out with the other stress in your life.

April 19, 2018

Tension By Choice: Reflecting on Code-Switching and Living Two Lives

Although I recognize that many first-generation students experience code-switching and feeling out of place when visiting home after having gone to college, the tension I feel now is a choice I am making.

April 18, 2018

Supporting the Entry of Older Adult Students into College Classrooms

In 2015, at the age of 99, Doretha Daniels earned her college degree. She is the oldest of a new minority of students who are earning their college degrees much later in life.

April 17, 2018