Category: Higher Education
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Grief at the loss of Affirmative Action
I am so saddened today to hear that affirmative action is gone. This program gave so much hope to my students in diverse schools. I have read of the lament of an acquaintance, a Black man, who is a college career and success specialist at a local high school–the hopelessness is palpable, and the only…
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What if things were different? On Self-Care.
I’m reading a really, really good book right now: Who is Wellness For? by Fariha Roisin. She writes with a decolonial mindset, but was raised in Australia, lived in Canada for a while, lived in NYC and now lives in LA. This means that she has an international decoloniality to her. She is Muslim, South…
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I’m Terrified to Go to the Career Counselor!
This is a post about emotional and affective accessibility on college campuses and their career centers. My growing concern is that students are going to college and taking all of these general education classes, switching majors all the time, and then dropping out before they get their degree. Then they have debt and are lacking…
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Returning to Seminary, with God
I just wrote about leaving seminary, and indeed I had. I wrote that I was losing my connection with God, that it was making me passive about racial justice because we were reading so much about it, and that it was also causing me to invest too much in my teachers, their work and their…
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Leaving Seminary with Najwa Zebian
I support Christian higher education. I have been a student at two and the last school NNU (Northwest Nazarene University) for two years. A record since the other time I was only enrolled for 2 quarters (Seattle Pacific University). I liked both of these schools but dropped out from both. In this post I write…