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Ten Americans Discuss How the Pandemic Shaped Life in the U S
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One Year of Covid Has Changed Life in the U S Forever
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The Pandemic Has Transformed The English Language
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Curiosity Desk | March 10, 2021
When a big news story happens, Peter Sokolowski can usually tell. One of his duties as editor at large for Meriam-Webster is to keep an eye on traffic to their online dictionary. He learned years ago that when a story is big enough, certain words will capture the attention of thousands upon thousands simultaneously, and lookups of those words in their dictionary will spike dramatically.
“Normally you see a few of the words from the headlines that rise to the top,” said Sokolowski.
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Pia Araneta on the Short- and Long-Term Effects of a Plague on Language
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In Ann Arbor, Michigan, a man and his wife take their daily walk around the neighborhood, pointing out things that weren’t there yesterday. They spot newly bloomed flowers, Black Lives Matter signage, and an oversized Costco stuffed bear in front of one of the houses. They’ve seen the bear dressed up in different costumes and in at least half a dozen positions on a chair outside.
In Grand Mere State Park, Michigan, a woman grabs a spot on the beach, a place she’s frequented growing up. In the last two years, the beachfront has eroded, destroying the shoreline and bringing the boats in closer and closer. Usually, she wouldn’t be able to get a spot on the weekends because of overcrowding tourists, but today, there are few people, and the waves are calm around her.
Enact Our Commitment to Equity
The second principle of our 2020 Contingency Plan is to continue to enact our commitment to equity. Over the past several years, the College has implemented several initiatives to improve faculty recruitment and retention rates. We have overhauled procedures to align with equitable search best practices and hired 9 BIPOC faculty (5 African American) over the past three years or 32% of all tenure-stream hires (9/28) and 50% (4/8) in AY 19-20. We have developed proactive retention policies, both College leadership fellows and mentoring fellows’ programs, and continue work on an equitable policies review at the College and Department/Center levels. Over the past two years, we have successfully retained all tenure-stream African American faculty in the College and hired two new Black faculty in the new Department of African American and African Studies, including a new inaugural chair, Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown, who was recently appointed as an MSU Foundatio
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