Last weekend the BSCU held its 2nd annual team picnic! We had an amazing afternoon enjoying the perfect weather and delicious food with colleagues and family, as well as a sizeable pack of BSCU four-legged friends.
Special shout out to Dr. Tracy Lieu, who joined us with her husband Jim and sweet Labradoodle, Leo. We celebrated her esteemed 12-year tenure as our Kaiser Permanente Division of Research Director, and we are excited to collaborate with her in her next career chapter, as she provides vital support to Kaiser Permanente Northern California Residency and Fellowship Programs!
Coro is such a great program for both the cohort and the employers. Read more about this and other innovative leadership programs at #umsl#ciac#communitydevelopment#ecodevo
The eight fellows in this year’s cohort have been working and learning in placements at the Mayor’s Office, the Treasurer’s Office and the Board of Aldermen President’s Office in the City of St. Louis; the St. Louis Public Schools Foundation; the Missouri Charter Public School Association; BioSTL; the Cortex Innovation District; North County Inc.; and The SoulFisher Ministries, among others, since starting the program last September.
They’re due to contribute roughly 10,000 hours combined working on different high-impact projects throughout their nine months in the program.
Yesterday was my first opportunity to attend the Illinois Education and Career Success Network annual conference. The theme - Awareness to Action - resonated throughout the day and left me feeling even more energized to create more equitable postsecondary pathways for young people. A few thoughts that are sticking with me:
1. “We’re asking students the wrong questions”. In a session focused on leveraging state frameworks like PaCE, I was validated when thinking about how important it is to put the idea of “what/who do you want to be…” in front of students versus leading advising conversations with thoughts simply about what college students want to attend.
2. “We need to shift the burden from the students to the system”. In multiple sessions, this thought came through. Simply by being a part of an unjust system means you have the proximity and power to play a role in fixing that system so that it better supports the students and families it is meant to serve.
All of this has me even more excited to be a part of an organization like OneGoal that is focused on leading the movement to transform postsecondary advising and support. Onward!
Love this picture, because it reminds me of the time Manuel Guerra and Ryan West of Chemeketa Community College breached their Fiduciary Duty by telling me to file suit or complaints with the very parties they’ve close to, such as this one, and the Office for Civil Rights, Department of Education, while providing no avenue to dispute resolution and implying I couldn’t represent myself otherwise, in their investigation which deviated from internal policy. Specifically, Ryan West, Manuel Guerra, and Keith Russell failed to provide a 3rd party independent investigation into my Discrimination and Harassment. If they write their own rules, while justifying the perfect defense against bad behavior, shouldn’t you be aware this was against #504 #IEP#IdeaLaws#ADA#Laws?
Clearly the college doesn’t care about human life when the tactics used to silence my claims are the same tactics used to retain a sexual predator only 4 months later.
Seemingly, the easier solution is to hire people with fake credentials, duping the college in the very thing they’ve made me certified. This while weaponizing their connection with police training to threaten police violence for my advocacy. I’m further amused some administrators are blocking me. For those who have elected themselves to be responsible educators, it seems either seeing or dealing with the truth of what you’ve done to your students is simply too much of a burden to bear on behalf of the very specific people who did this to me, to my face, without remorse and full awareness of the evil they were doing.
Face accountability, stop running and hiding, it’s the worst possible response from an academic institution such as Chemeketa Community College and the CHEMEKETA CLASSIFIED ASSOCIATION who are associated by default.
Sincerely,
NonAdjective
Resistant to change? Us?! In higher education?!
; ) Looking forward to being in conversation with Brian Rosenberg and Mary Dana Hinton about this excellent book and important topic! Hope to see you there!
Visiting Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
I’m pleased to be joining Hollins University President Mary Dana Hinton and my colleagues Francesca Purcell, Liya Escalera, PhD, and Alexis Redding for the 24th annual “Higher Education at Harvard” event at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on Monday, March 25 at 7pm EDT. The topic will be “Navigating Change in Higher Education: Obstacles and Opportunities.” The discussion will be both in-person and live-streamed. Registration information below.
https://lnkd.in/eThDJzaH
Join @InstPegasus and @McGillU this summer for excellent courses on Peace Through Health and Environment and Global Health. Learn more about the 2024 Summer Institute https://lnkd.in/dCsmv5ai
"Over the summer I had the opportunity to do research at Brown University. It's not an exaggeration to say it was the best summer of my life."
If you've wondered what our "Artificial Intelligence for Computational Creativity" NSF Summer REU Site is like (it's a 9-week, fully-funded, summer residential program that brings students to campus to conduct original research with Brown CS faculty and grad students), check out this video from Ezra, one of our alums: https://lnkd.in/ehQpj7dc
To round off #CareersWeek we want to share one of our student's experience of using the Careers Service at St George's, and how they helped him.
Krishen is a penultimate year student, studying Medicine at St George's. Watch this video to find out how the Careers Service helped him with him application for the BMJ's Plague Scholarship.
Learn more about our Careers Service at www.sgul.ac.uk/careers
Sidra Khalid 18G, 40 Under Forty honoree, reflects on her experience as a young college student at Emory, ready to learn what it takes to be successful.
“At 20, I was eager to have everything planned out and to know exactly what I needed to do to be successful. Ultimately, I've learned that life rarely follows a linear path, and it's okay not to have everything figured out when you’re younger.”
Learn more about our honorees here: https://bit.ly/4c8KPOd
As always, I'm getting so much out of this years Aust Fatherhood Research Symposium. Even though I'm only joining online :-(
Some takeaways for me from Day 1:
- paid paternal leave needs to be at least 1 month to have any benefit for dad
- Fathers tend not to take paid parental leave if it's optional (I'm still wrestling with that one!)
- Our systems are all too often set up to exclude fathers. E.g., in postnatal care visits our health systems/hospitals often can't have dads as 'the patient' (mum and baby can be) so dads miss out on screening/assessment of their mental health; Dads needing to pay to be 'boarders' in residential early parenting support settings, but baby and mum are admitted as patients so don't need to pay; Dads sent home from hospital while mums can stay with sick babies. [Obviously there are exceptions to all of this, but these systemic barriers still exist].
and lots more...
🌟 Welcome to Day Two of the Australian Fatherhood Research Symposium #AFRS2024! 🌟 We're thrilled to continue our journey exploring the diverse landscape of fatherhood research. Today's agenda includes a panel discussion, presentations by experts and early career researchers, and a round table discussion. Let's go!
