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Honors College professor sees classroom as empowering space for students hopeful for a more equal world
2021 Exceptional Early Career Teaching Award: Megha Anwer
Nothing could be more noble than the pursuit of a more equal world. And Megha Anwer, clinical assistant professor in the Honors College, sees her classroom as the very space that empowers Purdue students to imagine and collaborate toward that.
A theorist of visual culture, with expertise in global cinema and issues of racial, gender, class and caste equity, Anwer invites her students to engage with the visual and literary cultures of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries by exploring the power dynamics that infuse those cultures. She does this through her courses as varied and topical as the Evolution of Ideas: Photography and Film, Interdisciplinary Writing: James Bond, Hitchcock in the City, Alabama: The Radical South, or Images of Racial Violence.
The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is expanding into the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in an effort to improve ârecruitment, retention and resourcefulnessâ for students, faculty and staff.Â
According to a Wednesday email from the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the expansion will allow the university to fill the needs of the campus community, especially in preparing students for âlives of success, meaning, service and positive impact.â The shift will also help make OU more accessible and attainable, and continue to make the university a place of âbelonging and emotional growthâ for all.Â
More than 20 OU employees and 15 student employees from the Accessibility and Disability Resource Center, the Inclusion Council and the TRIO Programs â which include Project Threshold, McNair Scholars and Upward Bound â will join the team. According to the email, parts of the transition have already begun, with all bu
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WARREN On the heels of a year plagued by a global pandemic, a combative presidential election, rising violence in the form of mass shootings, and an increased awareness of social inequities and injustice, Kent State Trumbull senior English student Valerie Dalrymple decided to do something positive.
In January she began planning “It Starts with You: Promoting Peace and Civil Discourse in Our Lives.”
The free and virtual event will be 2 to 5 pm. Tuesday. Dalrymple chose May 4 because of its historical context for Kent State University.
“In politics, social media, and even our personal lives, people are working to hurt others through humiliation, ostracization, threats, and even physical violence,” Dalrymple said. “May 4 represents a horrible day in our school and national history, but it also reflects a day where we can do something about the hatred and help shift the conversation from one of destruction to one of mutual respect, mutual compassion, and m
In a press release last Thursday, West Virginia University announced it would join 20 other colleges and universities in a national effort to end sexual violence on campus.