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The holiday season might be just around the corner, but there are still plenty of fall events happening on campus. Here are just a few to help fill up your calendar, including cheering on the women’s soccer team. ....
He said there is a very small window for the new administration to become serious about whether they are going to get things accomplished or use excuses. Biden is already grappling with what to do about the country s more than $27 trillion in student loan debt. Not only does the president plan to continue the pause on federal student loan payments amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but Biden officials told USA Today recently they would encourage Congress to pass legislation to erase $10,000 in federal student loan debt per person. That move, however, is likely to draw criticism from activists who have pushed Biden to forgive more debt per person, in some cases up to $50,000, via executive action upon taking office. ....
Why Kamala Harris and âFirstsâ Matter, and Where They Fall Short It makes a difference when the first member of a group rises to a position of power, political science shows, but it requires âwork to sustain it.â Image Kamala Harris in January 2019, the day she announced she was running for president.Credit.Tom Brenner for The New York Times Kamala Harris will forever have âfirstâ attached to her name â the first woman, the first Black American and the first person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president of the United States. If the Biden administrationâs choices for cabinet members and senior officials are approved, many of them will also be firsts â including the first Black, Latino, Native American, female and openly gay and transgender leaders to serve in various positions. ....
Share The news seemed too perfect to be a coincidence: On November 12, less than a week after Howard alum Kamala Harris was elected as the nation’s first female and first Black Vice President, the university announced it had received $1 million to start the Center for Women, Gender and Global Leadership. Surely, the excitement around Harris’s historic win was the catalyst for this donation? Actually, the idea for the center had been percolating in J. Jarpa Dawuni’s head since she arrived at Howard five years ago. The political-science professor has long been focused on women’s rights, first as a law student in Ghana she planned to become a human-rights lawyer and then as an academic after she realized she had a need “to know more,” as she puts it. After moving to the US, Dawuni added a master’s in international development and a PhD in political science to her CV. ....