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(06/17/20 6:17am)
The killing of George Floyd confronts our college and university communities with a longstanding, brutal reality that still undermines our very mission to help students improve their lives. From our idealistic campuses, we see, yet again, the disregard of the life and rights of a Black American, by those sworn never to betray America’s public trust. The dispiriting implication — in this society, an individual on a path to betterment can be repressed or even killed in the street because of systemic racism. We educators aspire to improve the lives of those who come to us, through education and dialogue. We must speak truth about the many injustices still festering in the society beyond our campuses. But how do we find the words?
Atop this most recent tragedy, the pandemic has already separated us, for months, from our campus communities. Many of our interactions have been reduced to tiny avatars on a screen, our voices crackling through the overloaded bandwidth. Even those on campuses are “socially distanced” with our expressions of empathy being masked and our gatherings rendered ill-advised or even illegal. Finding consensus is always a challenge — it is even more so, in this context.
(06/22/17 2:22am)
Young Mr. Warmbier was not one of my students. We never met, in person. I am not even sure whether our paths ever crossed on Grounds. Yet I feel like I knew him quite well, and this is a feeling many of the University community share. Many of us find his adventurous spirit in the young students who begin their life journeys here, at the University.
(09/30/14 5:51am)
A corrupt argument has circulated since the disappearance of our young student, Hannah Graham. The argument is that Graham might have averted the sad fate that we now presume, if only she’d behaved differently. Those who make this argument have their own characteristically narrow notion of how a young person should behave. If a student should take one step — even briefly or unintentionally — beyond that notion of appropriate behavior, then they must accept responsibility for what befalls them.
(12/08/13 9:16pm)
Nelson Mandela, a leader in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, passed away last week at a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa.
(01/31/12 3:58pm)
The college students of today face a number of concerns: