The children who live at the Parkville Youth Justice Precinct in Melbourne are in state care. In a way, we are all their parents – we have a duty of care to them. It is our voting power, our voices, our interest and our considerations that determine what happens to them. As it stands, we are failing them. Over the several years of my work in youth justice, including at
Amid undergraduate enrollment declines and harsh criticism from faculty members, Northeastern Illinois University struggles to keep supporting and educating Latino, Black and transfer students. Raising enrollment numbers was Gloria Gibson’s top priority when she became president of Northeastern Illinois University five years ago. “I have to be very clear in saying that our enrollment numbers are not good,” Gibson said in her first State of the University address. “They do not meet my expectations, especially as we look at our enrollments for first-year students.”