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Damian Hawley grew up on the Colville Indian Reservation in central Washington, two hours south of Spokane. His reservationâs ancestral lands reached into Idaho, lending him in-state tuition at Idahoâs oldest, land-grant university.
Now an alumnus of the University of Idaho, Hawley earned his double major in business marketing and sales. However, what drew him to the College of Business and Economics was its PGA Golf Management Program.
âI didn’t really care what degrees were going to be offered,â Hawley said. âI was coming for the program itself, so everything that came with it was a bonus.â
HUNTINGTON â When Betty Jane Cleckley graduated from Douglass High School in Huntington, she had to leave the city to further her education because Marshall University was still segregated.
So she left. She earned a bachelorâs degree from Marquette University in 1958 and then a masterâs degree in social work from Smith College. She was awarded a doctorate from Brandeis University and followed that up with a postdoctoral certificate in higher education management from Harvard University.
In 1989, she came home after being hired at the university she could not attend. Shortly after, she worked hard and fought hard to establish the Office of Multicultural Affairs, now called Intercultural Affairs, but is still creating diversity on campus and providing a home away from home for minority students.
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Ever since the mob attack on the Capitol Hill happened, President Donald Trump’s world has come crashing down, at least politically. Social media giant Twitter has permanently banned the commander-in-chief fearing he could pose more risk by inciting violence and now the prestigious Lehigh University has revoked the honorary degree it had given to Trump way back in the 1980s. Wagner College, a private school in Staten Island borough of New York, also voted to rescind the degree awarded to the tycoon-politician in 2004 after Lehigh’s decision.
Lehigh, a premier research institution in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, awarded Trump with the degree in 1988 and had earlier disagreed with calls by the students and faculty to take the degree back, according to the university newspaper The Brown and White. A committee of Lehigh’s board of trustees voted on Thursday, January 7, to strip the degree, according to a statement issued by the school. The decision
Wyoming’s first Black sheriff takes office in troubled times
Albany County Sheriff Aaron Appelhans stands in front of the courthouse in Laramie on Dec. 21, 2020. Appelhans is the first Black sheriff in the state of Wyoming. (Joel Funk/WyoFile)
Albany County Sheriff Aaron Appelhans still has some work to do before his office is set up. The walls are mostly empty as stacks of framed pictures sit on shelves and the floor, paperwork piled high obscures the desktop. Behind it all sits the new sheriff, making sense of the opportunity he’s seized.
“It was a bit of a whirlwind for the first week,” Appelhans said with a laugh. “But it’s been overwhelmingly positive.”
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