After student push, Pa.’s state university system adopts strategy to address campus racism
Updated May 05, 2021;
Posted May 05, 2021
State System of Higher Education Chancellor Dan Greenstein delivers his state of the system address, January 15, 2020. Greenstein is the head of a system of 14 state-owned colleges and universities. | Dan Gleiter | dgleiter@pennlive.com
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Story by Colin Deppen of Spotlight PA
HARRISBURG Pennsylvania’s public university system has agreed on a strategy to address racism on its campuses by building a more diverse staff and curriculum after students of color spoke out about feeling unsafe and overlooked.
The 20-member Board of Governors voted April 15 to establish diversity, inclusion, and equity priorities by collecting data on university demographics and establishing resources for change.
A Mother’s Comfort
Scientific American describes my mother to a T.
An article titled The Incredible Importance of Mothers, by social scientist Melanie Tannenbaum, lays out the argument that a mother s comfort - not just meeting basic needs, such as providing food and shelter - is essential to the development and wellbeing of children.
Tannenbaum cites the work of social scientist John Bowlby, who in the 1950s determined that our attachment to parental figures (in particular, he argued, to mothers) plays a huge, critical role in our ability to learn, grow, and develop healthy adult relationships.
She also cites the work of psychologist Harry Harlow, who was strongly influenced by Bowlby s attachment theory. Harlow believed that we humans have a core motivation for love and affection as children and that a mother s comfort is what develops our sense of security - which is the key to living a happy, productive and well-adjusted life.
Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — For the first time, the Pennsylvania legislature’s top leaders are expected to throw their weight behind reining in the
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Angela Couloumbis, Spotlight PA and Brad Bumsted and Sam Janesch, The CaucusMay 4, 2021
In the coming weeks, House Speaker Bryan Cutler and Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman (pictured) plan to unveil a proposed ban on the practice as part of a lobbying reform package. (Commonwealth Media Services)
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For the first time, the Pennsylvania legislature’s top leaders are expected to throw their weight behind reining in the influence of lobbyists who also moonlight as political consultants, blurring the worlds of politics and policy in the Capitol.
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HARRISBURG â For the first time, the Pennsylvania legislatureâs top leaders are expected to throw their weight behind reining in the influence of lobbyists who also moonlight as political consultants, blurring the worlds of politics and policy in the Capitol.
In the coming weeks, House Speaker Bryan Cutler and Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman plan to unveil a proposed ban on the practice as part of a lobbying reform package. The hope, the Republicans have said, is to restore public faith in government.
Yet even as the final details of the plan are being penned, Corman is jetting off to a ritzy fund-raiser organized by one in a trio of companies that has cornered the market on the business practice Cormanâs lobbying reform legislation aims to stop. The Harrisburg-based firms, called the Mavericks, fund-raise for elected officials, run their political campaigns, then lobby them once they are in office.