Arizona State University (ASU) has written a book that calls on schools to “destroy grading.”
Grading students’ work, especially in the area of writing, is a form of “white supremacy” that must be abolished in order for black students to “achieve” at the same level as white students.
Asao Inoue, who works as associate dean for Academic Affairs, Equity, and Inclusion within the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, contends that merit should not be a consideration when dealing with black students’ academic performance. “Anti-racism,” he says, simply does not allow for it.
In his book
Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom, Inoue attempts to make the case that a student’s efforts, rather than actual performance, are what should be graded.
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Arts Commission Change
Jaime Dempsey is leaving her position as executive director for Arizona Commission on the Arts, a state agency designed to foster the creative and professional development of the arts sector, in June. Dempsey will assume the newly created position of senior vice president for philanthropic initiatives with Arizona Community Foundation, which facilitates philanthropy in many sectors, including arts and culture. As of this writing, the commission had not announced its specific plans for conducting an open search to fill the executive director position.
The Attacca Quartet is schedule to perform at Mesa Arts Center during the 2021/22 season.
Award-winning JMU geographic science program earns NSF support for lightning study
Published Friday, Apr. 9, 2021, 10:48 am
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Front Page » Local/State » Award-winning JMU geographic science program earns NSF support for lightning study
A group of JMU researchers from the geographic science program are getting ready to begin a two-year lightning study supported by nearly $450,000 from the National Science Foundation.
The recognition as the top undergraduate geography program comes from The American Association of Geographers, the preeminent geography organization in the country, said Mace Bentley, a professor in the program and also the lead researcher for the lightning study.