People remember Walt Whitman primarily as America’s national poet, but he was a journalist, too, and much of that work was published anonymously. University of Nebraska–Lincoln researchers are working to lift that anonymity to provide a more complete picture of a man who wrote about issues that still resonate today. Funded by a three-year, nearly [.]
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Johnetta Randolph Haley knew she wanted to be a music educator early on. She broke racial barriers and founded Head Start in East St. Louis. She died at age 97.
Johnetta Randolph Haley, a music teacher who, over the vehement objections of white parents, helped integrate a Kirkwood middle school after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down school segregation in 1954, has died. She was 97.
“Fifteen hundred people signed a petition they didn’t want me or the other three (teachers) only because we were black,” Haley said in a 2018 awards program video. “But after one year, they wanted their kids in my class.”
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Sasso is an author, researcher and professor of higher education and student affairs at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. His research focuses on the college experience, student success and educational equity across cocurricular spaces. He has more than 15 years of professional and teaching experience in postsecondary education, and has written and co-edited seven textbooks, authored approximately 50 scholarly publications, and facilitated over 40 conference presentations. He serves as a reviewer for more than five journals, including the Journal of Student Affairs Research & Practice, and serves as senior coeditor for the text series Identity & Practice in Higher Education-Student Affairs.
“Dr. Sasso is the ideal scholar to advance the Piazza Center’s work in creating safe and successful fraternities and sororities,” said Stevan Veldkamp, executive director for the Piazza Center. “As we are weeks away from students roaring back to in-person edu
The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family
Campus is hosting How Healers Became Killers, Nazi Medical Professionals, to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday, January 27. The program also is the opening event of the new featured exhibit, Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race, which opens January 17 and is slated to run until July 11, 2021.
“We are proud to host this thought-provoking exhibit and opening program which scrutinizes the complicity medical professionals had in the Holocaust,” said Holocaust Memorial Center CEO Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld. “The most important lesson we teach is that history is made through a
series of choices and that every choice has a consequence. By teaching the lessons of the Holocaust, our fervent hope is that each of us will be upstanders, not bystanders, when we witness wrongful actions.”
Kern named tourism bureau intern
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ALTON Ian Kern, a senior at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, is the newest addition to Great Rivers and Routes Tourism Bureau staff as a public relations intern for the Spring semester.
The bureau has been providing opportunities for students for many years and this year, in the spite of the COVID-19 pandemic, is no different. Interns working at the bureau have the opportunity to experience the full working world and gain experience not only in tourism, but public relations, advertising, marketing, and economics.
President and CEO Cory Jobe said the bureau often looks for students who have an interest in writing, communications and public relations.