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Trash Talk as Resistance: It's Nothing New

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ferguson Is an Assistant Professor of Educational leadership and Assistant Dean of Student Affairs And Inclusive Excellence. While we claim and have been directed to become ten times better, this superpower narrative, creates a different "normal" that is impossible to keep up with for any length of time.

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SCOTUS, Affirmative Action, and the Future of University Diversity: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 174 with Host Drumm McNaughton and Guests Thomas Parham and Dilcie Perez

The Change Leader, Inc.

In 1986, he was appointed to the City of Irvine’s Human Relations Committee. After being elected chair of that committee, he helped draft the city’s first human rights ordinance, which was passed by the city council. She was recently recognized with the California State Student Association’s Administrator of the Year award.