Faculty heard two proposals from professors in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Wednesday's virtual meeting of the Arts and Sciences Council, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences' faculty governance body.
The inclusive language section of ASU's diversity training shows the importance of including minority groups in conversations about their inclusion.
As Trump Leaves Office, Duke Experts Warn of White Supremacists Lasting Threat
A promotion for one of two recent panel discussions
In response to a coup attempt on behalf of Donald Trump, Duke University experts have participated in a series of virtual discussions about the threats of white supremacy, threat of insurrection, and domestic terrorism.
âAnytime you have a mob willing to overpower and injure people to get inside the Capitol to overwhelm and harm Congressional representatives, American democracy has a problem,â said Duke historian Adriane Lentz-Smith, who participated in the January 13 discussion entitled âInsurrection, Policing and Democracy.â
Noting reports of ongoing investigations to determine if members of Congressâalong with retired and active police and military officersâmay have had a hand in the violence âis incredibly worrying,â she added.
Why remote learning has been a headache for some Spanish speaking families in NC
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Why remote learning has been a headache for some Spanish speaking families in NC
This story is part of The Lost Year, an occasional series on how the pandemic is affecting education across North Carolina.
Like other families, Patricia Obregon and her 8-year-old son, Gael, find virtual classes and test-taking to be a constant pain.
It doesn t help that most of their school district s online systems are in English.
Gael is one of about 9,300 students in Durham Public Schools whose home language is Spanish. At 33.2%, DPS has the largest proportion of Hispanic students of any school district in the Triangle, according to district data.