March 10, 2021 MACOMB/MOLINE, IL – Going back to its roots as a normal, or teaching, school, Western Illinois University has established the Arlington & Arlene Seymour Center for Rural Education, Advocacy, Policy and Research – the first center of its kind in Illinois and one of a few in the United States – to honor the commitment and dedication of two lifelong educators. In November 2020, the Illinois Board of Higher Education approved WIU as the site for the state s rural education center.
The center, housed within the School of Education in the College of Education and Human Services, is made possible thanks to the generosity of Arlington (Arlie) Seymour, in memory of his late wife, Arlene.
Community leaders: Sedition by a sitting president. Treason by false patriots.
January 10, 2021
President Donald Trump speaks from the South Lawn of the White House on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Over the last four years, we have witnessed grotesque scenes of children torn from the arms of their mothers and fathers at the border or the last breaths of the children who died while in the custody of those who caged them.
Over the last four years, we have witnessed the pleas and tears of our fellow humans begging for asylum because they or their loved ones are callously denied due process and sent back to their deaths.