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Among Dee’s friends, talking about money is considered impolite. But that’s not really what stops her. “Most of my peers are white,” she says, “and I get very angry about the systemic inequality evident in our situations, and their seeming obliviousness to it.”
Dee’s family has been middle-class and college-educated going back three generations, “since Black people reasonably could be,” she says. Her maternal grandparents were the children of sharecroppers in the South, migrated north as adults, got graduate degrees, and, unlike millions of Black Americans who were unable to secure mortgages at the time due to racist housing covenants and lending practices, bought a home.
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Carlos Acosta’s fall semester at the University of Southern California was a lot more grueling than he expected and it wasn’t just because of the Zoom classes.
In an effort to minimize travel during the coronavirus pandemic, the university shortened the semester so it ended before Thanksgiving, and didn’t include any multi-day breaks. But the condensed schedule, Acosta said, came with consequences.
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Carlos Acosta’s fall semester at the University of Southern California was a lot more grueling than he expected and it wasn’t just because of the Zoom classes.
Claremont Colleges, which along with Pitzer includes four other undergraduate colleges and two graduate schools, announced Thursday that the first acceptance letters for the Inside-Out Pathway-to-BA program had been sent.
The program, part of the intercollegiate Justice Education Initiative, is touted as the first of its kind nationwide. Inside-Out Pathway-to-BA is at the heart of the college s educational objectives and core values, particularly social and racial justice, social responsibility and the ethical implications of knowledge and action, Pitzer President Melvin Oliver said. Our Claremont students and faculty get the experience of a unique academic environment, and it provides inside students a path to a better future.
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