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Past, Present, & Future: A History Of Bipoc Student Support & Student-Led Protests At Uvm, Nelizabeth Diaz, Logan Henrique De Melo, Maria Del Sol Nava

The Vermont Connection

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University Leadership to have people in their corner that support students, representation and care for students at the university in higher level positions that could create change. There needs to be more Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) representation on this campus as a whole. Before making decisions, the institution must consult the populations that will be most affected and ask itself: are we doing more damage than helping? The goal was to look at how BIPOC students at UVM have been supported …

An Open Letter To The Marginalized Academic: Divesting From Colonial Indoctrination, Dr. Khadija Boyd

The Vermont Connection

Paulo Freire (1970) stated, "In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit, but as a limiting situation which they can transform." Academia has historically been evoked by a white, male, hetero-normative framework that has limited the space for opposing identities to be marginalized through policies, organizational culture, and social imagery. Although liberation is not a notion employed in academia, assimilation, obedience, and domination serve as the protagonist embedded in the optics within these institutions, often …