Rather than simply shutting down these groups, universities need to engage these difficult conversations to support the younger generation to fight together for meaningful social change.
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In defence of the campaign by students and lecturers at Cambridge for the university to take down a promotional video featuring the controversial historian.
Here’s what black student activists were asking for 50 years ago. So, what changed?
I taught at Mizzou from 1996 to 2008. Here’s why the events don’t surprise me.
Black youth are grappling with the question of the meaning of freedom in post-apartheid South Africa. They seek an antidote to their reality wherein blackness continues to be mocked and marginalised.
Students of color are subjected to harsher disciplinary measures. Are schools doing enough to check this practice?
Black students get suspended or expelled at a rate three times greater than white students. The cost: they fall behind in school, and the cycle of poverty and failure is perpetuated.
When people are nudged into noticing their commonalities, instead of remaining focused on their differences, it leads to remarkable results.
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Researcher in Black education, policy, and community development, University of Toronto
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Professor, Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora, York University, Canada
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Professor of Counseling Psychology, Howard University
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Associate Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education, Ontario Institute, University of Toronto
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Senior Lecturer in Accounting, Sheffield Hallam University
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Vice-Chancellor, Birmingham City University
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Lecturer, Maynooth University
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Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Education and Health Law Clinic, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor of Public Policy and Education, Vanderbilt University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in Education, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor, University of Michigan
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DECRA Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Old Dominion University
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Professor of Medieval Literature, University of Cambridge