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Copied! The Bears will celebrate Black History Month across all official team channels throughout February. Fans are encouraged to follow along and learn more about Bears and Chicago Black history. Feature stories will focus on Bears players past and present who attended Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); Bears players such as Willie Thrower and Eddie Macon who have been Black history pioneers; the involvement of Gale Sayers and Willie Galimore in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s; and former Bears executive Rod Graves, who is currently the director of the Fritz Pollard Alliance. Other scheduled content includes: • A video tour of DuSable Museum of African American History. Former Bears players Jerry Azumah and Rashied Davis will take a tour of the museum led by director of education and programs Dr. Kim Dulaney. The Bears and Bears Care also partnered with DuSable Museum on Juneteenth to raise $19,000 for the museum. The DuSabl ....
When colleges and universities had to send their students home last March as the reality of the pandemic began to sweep the nation, it added financial considerations that universities nationwide had not prepared for. “It’s inserted a great deal of uncertainty,” Mercer’s Executive Vice President for Administration and Finance James Netherton said. “What kind of money are we going to have to spend coping with COVID that we didn’t budget for? … The list just goes on and on and on and on and on.” When Mercer had to send students home, the university had to provide students compensation for unused food and housing, Netherton said. On top of that, the university spent a considerable amount of money preparing to reopen for the 2020-2021 school year in as safe a manner as possible. ....