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Dismantling Global Injustices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

His work has long focused on the intersections among human rights, political economy, collective dissent, and empirical methodology. At URI, he teaches a wide range of classes on human rights, international relations theory, political violence, Black protests, and research methods. That experience proved to be life-altering.

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Dismantling Global Injustices - Dr. Brendan Skip Mark

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

His work has long focused on the intersections among human rights, political economy, collective dissent, and empirical methodology. At URI, he teaches a wide range of classes on human rights, international relations theory, political violence, Black protests, and research methods. That experience proved to be life-altering.

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Doing What’s Right

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She is also the founding chairperson of the department of surgery and the first associate dean for post-graduate medical education at the Aga Khan University in Karachi. In the U.S., I feel really pleased that this is a recognition of this part of the world for the work we are doing here.”

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Remembering Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. (1952-2023)

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was wrongfully arrested at his own house in 2009, the first thing that he said was “Get Tree!” Charles was a tireless advocate for civil rights, equality, human dignity, and social justice. Manning, Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. race riots. Ogletree, Jr. Professor of Law.

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Iran forces dissenters out of universities

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Meanwhile, the government is taking steps to install regime loyalists in the top ranks of academia, recently appointing the ultra-conservative cleric Abdolhossein Khosrowpanah as secretary of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution—the body responsible for appointing university deans and heads of scholarly academies.

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Representation Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Morgan State introduced its program as a minor in 2009 at the behest of Dr. Burney J. Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. and presented it to the department chair who in turn presented it to the dean, Dr. Marshall Stevenson. The dean followed up, and an announcement was made at a faculty senate meeting.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

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Jackson was a 2009 recipient of the Dr. John Hope Franklin Award but was recognized at this year’s American Council on Education (ACE) annual meeting in Washington, D.C. regrettably, the award ceremony was cancelled in 2009. A dean at MIT suggested she look at some industrial research labs. The Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D.