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Exploring Racial Climate on American College Campuses |
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| | COVID on campus | July 29 | The coronavirus pandemic represents the greatest challenge to American higher education in decades. Some small regional colleges that were already struggling won’t survive. Other schools, large and small, are rethinking how to offer an education while keeping people safe. | | Listen |
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A note from Lumina's president | | | | We are pleased to share this podcast series from the education team at American Public Media. Lumina Foundation supported this independent look at the racial climate on college campuses in response to a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. In August 2017, protestors who self-identified as white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and members of other hate groups proudly marched through the University of Virginia campus with torches, bearing weapons and chanting racist and antisemitic slogans. We found the protest unsettling and reprehensible. We are committed to ending systemic inequalities in education that not only weaken the economy but also jeopardize the future of American democracy. And we wanted to better understand how today’s students are encountering race on campus. We invite you to listen and learn. |
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| | Graduation rate for Native students surges at U. of Minnesota | March 26 | Unable to sleep one night, Dustin Marrow scrolled through Facebook, stopping when he saw an ad for an Ojibwe-language program. | | Listen |
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| | Black girl, white college | March 19 | When it was time for me to enroll in a four-year college, I chose North Dakota State, a school that's mostly white, conservative, and insular – everything I wasn't. It was the hardest year of my life. | | Listen |
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| | A conundrum for student advocates: Change their school or change society? | March 12 | Unlike protesters at many universities, activists at Harvard seek social justice reforms beyond campus. | | Listen |
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| | At some HBCUs, enrollment rises from surprising applicants | March 5 | After decades of declining enrollment, HBCUs are seeing an uptick in new applicants, especially among Latino and international students. | | Listen |
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