University of Kentucky College of Education Dean Julian Vasquez Heilig is the 2023 Linda C. Tillman Social and Racial Justice Award recipient. This top honor from the University Council for Educational Administration recognizes Vasquez Heilig’s dynamic voice for equity in education in the U.S. and around the world, while honoring its namesake, Linda C. Tillman, for her work to diversify educational leadership and mentor students and faculty of color.
Beneath a shower of fireworks punctuating the usual pomp and circumstance of a University of Kentucky commencement ceremony, Xavier Douglas, college student, became Mr. Douglas, social studies teacher and change-maker.
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Candice Hargons, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology, says Black students need to be heard and responded to with empathy as they process the pain of racial injustice.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 12, 2021) As anniversaries of the tragedies that sparked nationwide protests against systemic racism approach, faculty members with the Education and Civil Rights Initiative in collaboration with the NAACP, based in the University of Kentucky College of Education, are sharing information to aid school personnel in helping students process racial trauma and feel supported when speaking out on the journey for racial equity.
“It is important for schools to embrace students during painful events, to acknowledge their potential pain and stress and provide ways to help process traumas. As more school districts return to in-person learning, including in Louisville where Breonna Taylor was murdered on March 13 last year, some students and
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 1, 2021) The University of Kentucky’s Martin Luther King Center, in collaboration with units across campus, will host a variety of events and programming, most of which will be virtual, to celebrate Black History Month this February.
While this year’s observance looks different than past year’s due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the observation of Black History Month will, nonetheless, allow the history and culture of Black Americans to be centered in recognition of past and present challenges, struggles and achievements.
“Since the late 60s and officially in 1976, Black History Month has been a long-awaited time for the corporate celebration of Black culture, Black stories and Black people,” said Chandler Frierson, UK senior and programming intern at the MLK Center. “With that narrative, this year’s Black History Month is a special month. People across the world have witnessed firsthand a year that has further proven the enduranc