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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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The students disappearing fastest from American campuses? Middle-class ones

The Hechinger Report

Related: Colleges provide misleading information about their costs. Instead, she’s getting the middle-class tuition break — “I think that definitely helped me pick UVA” — and is now a double-major there in computer science and global studies of the Middle East and South Asia.

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Refugee students languish in red tape as they seek to resume their educations

The Hechinger Report

One asks for more information about the psychological counseling offered, which covers stress, depression and homesickness. It can’t happen,” said Brenda Tooley, director of global studies at Knox College, which is offering full-tuition scholarships to two Syrian students who will begin in January. It’s not affordable.

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

The Hechinger Report

To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. Several organizations are providing information to help educators teach about Reconstruction.

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From the archives: Already languishing in red tape, refugee students now may be barred altogether from U.S.

The Hechinger Report

One asks for more information about the psychological counseling offered, which covers stress, depression and homesickness. It can’t happen,” said Brenda Tooley, director of global studies at Knox College, which is offering full-tuition scholarships to two Syrian students who will begin in January. It’s not affordable.