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A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

The Hechinger Report

In 2015, after the school agreed to remove the state flag with its Confederate emblem from campus, students and alumni formed the Our State Flag Foundation to bring the flag back. One roadblock to opening up more conversations and making black students feel more welcome could be that African-Americans are still a small minority on campus.

History 92
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Careers at Community Colleges: Applying to Jobs at 2-Year Institutions

Political Science Now

Johnson is a tenured Instructor in Political Science, History, and Geography at Minnesota State Community and Technical College in Moorhead, MN. He has served APSA as Chair of the TLC Program Committee (2015), and as co-Editor of the Journal of Political Science Education (2016-2022). in Sociology from Stanford University and a Ph.D.

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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 8

The Hechinger Report

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. Catherine Epstein: This is the 2015-16 catalog. Jon: Sarah Igo chairs the American History Department at Vanderbilt and is an intellectual historian. Kirk: That’s Josipa Roksa. It has 591 pages.