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It was the community that drew Jasmine Buxton to UW Oshkosh earlier this year as the associate vice chancellor for student affairs and dean of students. But it’s that same community she hopes will keep students here. Buxton said she noticed the community at Oshkosh even as she was taking campus tours during the interview...
TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Hasan Jeffries grew up in Brooklyn in the 1980s. His childhood experiences of inequality inspired him to stand up for the rights of all. “The interest is partly personal,” said Jeffries, an associate history professor at Ohio State University, who will host a virtual lecture on the civil rights movement at the Senator John Heinz History Center for Black History Month. “Seeing what was around me, and the levels of differences, I was trying to make sense of it at the time. That eventually led me to explore the civil rights movement and the Black power movement.”
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By Cole Hatcher DELAWARE, Ohio – Three Ohio Wesleyan University students have earned 2020 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. OWU students earning competitive Gilman Scholarships this spring and fall are sophomore Jeremiah Anderson of Dayton, Ohio; senior Miko Harper of Sandy Springs, Georgia; and senior Megha Malik of Dublin, Ohio. The scholarships help to fund study-abroad experiences that foster mutual understanding between peoples of the United States and other countries. The late U.S. Rep. Benjamin Gilman, R-New York, for whom the scholarships are named, has said living and learning abroad provides students “a deeper understanding of their place in the world, encouraging them to be a contributor, rather than a spectator in the international community.”