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

Anthropology News

This aspect of our project involved a significant amount of outreach across units and departments at UO, connecting with faculty colleagues who teach courses related to immigration, border and global studies, and inviting them to complete the toe tags in classes in advance of the exhibit installation.

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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

The Hechinger Report

Altering that national mindset can start on campus, but it takes serious effort, said Stephen Angle, director of the Fries Center for Global Studies at Wesleyan, which does not have a language requirement for all majors. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

The Hechinger Report

The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring “American Reconstruction: The Untold Story,” a summer institute for teachers in grades K-12 in July 2018, at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. Related: Can we trace the roots of Charlottesville to school segregation? Twenty-five teachers will be selected to attend.

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