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America’s food culture is at a turning point. Pandemic-related shutdowns proved just how fragile the restaurant ecosystem has always been, while last summer’s protests put a spotlight on the work still needed to dismantle white supremacy in all aspects of American life, especially in an industry built on a history of racism and inequity. And addressing hunger, an everyday reality for millions of Americans, became even more urgent as food banks struggled to keep up with the overwhelming need due to the pandemic’s devastation of the economy.
AGB Search Seeks Leaders for a Range of Key Higher Education Slots
March 15, 2021 – As the pandemic slowly begins to subside in the U.S. and organizations collectively begin to get back on their feet, colleges and universities across the country are opening searches that, if all goes to plan, will allow high-profile leaders to take them into a new era of fundraising, digitalization, sports and, increasingly the case, globalization – not to mention a pandemic and post-pandemic era. One national recruiting outfit, Washington, D.C.-based AGB Search, has become a magnet for such assignments recently launching a variety of top leadership searches for the University of South Dakota, Nevada State College, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Cleveland State University and Texas Southern University, among others. For this search firm and a raft of others the remainder of 2021 looks to be busy, even while the academic sector is being hit from all angles as a result of the current crisis.
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From the Editor: Everything you missed in food news last week
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Photo illustration by Brittany Holloway-Brown, inspired by the design of MOFAD’s exhibit
This post originally appeared on February 27, 2020 in Amanda Kludt’s newsletter “From the Editor,” a roundup of the most vital news and stories in the food world each week.
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This week, I’d love to highlight a collaboration we just published with the Museum of Food and Drink, a collection of stories we’re calling The African/American Table.
Last March, the museum was on the verge of debuting its latest exhibition, African/American: The Making of the Nation’s Table at the Africa Center in Harlem when the pandemic hit. We started talking to them this past summer about publishing a package tied to the themes and ideas of the exhibit when they were finally ready to open. As it became clear this fall that we’d be waiting a long time for t