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Intersectional Anthropology as an Avenue Toward Praxis, Pedagogy, and New Anthropological Horizons

Anthropology News

I study human skeletal remains of the past, how burial contexts were constructed, and what they revealed about communities. My work sits at the nexus of human biology and archaeology, two disciplines known for being deeply positivist and scientific, valuing numbers, models, and testable hypotheses as a gold standard.

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OPINION: We say we seek diversity — but where are the truly inclusive campuses?

The Hechinger Report

Instead of silos focused on global education — diversity initiatives and community engagement each working separately — we will connect these areas so they can work together, as they should. Leave this field empty if you're human: Our approach is an institutional one. Mississippi Learning.

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A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: Many colleges and universities are grappling with their historical connections to slavery. Many in the Ole Miss community talk about tradition, she said, and often use it as a crutch. “Is Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Case of Hostile Terrain ’94 at the University of Oregon 

Anthropology News

We viewed the opportunity to bring HT94 to a campus museum as a broader opportunity to bring together a campus coalition interested in im/migration studies and border studies, bridging across traditional university silos by uniting staff, faculty, students from across campus around a common objective.

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'As Educators, We Must Tell the Truth'

ED Surge

Our most recent cohort of fellows included educators across a variety of grades and content areas, including a high school principal, an elementary school paraprofessional, a math and computer science teacher, and a school and community engagement manager, to name a few.

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Climate change is a health crisis. Are doctors prepared?

The Hechinger Report

At UCSF, students including Colin Baylen, Karly Hampshire and Nuzhat Islam have formed an interdisciplinary student group called Human Health + Climate Change. the school won points for its planetary health electives and a climate-based fellowship, but did not score well on community engagement. They gave UCSF a ‘B’ grade ?

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OPINION: Higher ed partnerships will help the arts survive Trump’s budget cuts

The Hechinger Report

They’ve endured a number of Republican-led efforts to reduce arts funding since the 1990s, and in keeping with this tradition, President Trump’s budget blueprint, released in March 2017, proposes significant cuts to virtually every agency except Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs.