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The University Of Maine Office Of The President Article On The "Community Message From President And Cabinet Regarding Juneteenth", University Of Maine Jun 2020

The University Of Maine Office Of The President Article On The "Community Message From President And Cabinet Regarding Juneteenth", University Of Maine

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This University of Maine Office of the President article on the "Community Message from President and Cabinet Regarding Juneteenth," posted on June 18, 2020, features the history of Maine's relation with the emancipation proclamation and the communities progress with inclusivity and anti-racism.


Humanizing Higher Education: Disrupting Racial Injustice In Teacher Preparation Through Critically Caring Communities, Melissa M. Boronkas Jun 2020

Humanizing Higher Education: Disrupting Racial Injustice In Teacher Preparation Through Critically Caring Communities, Melissa M. Boronkas

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Institutions of Higher Education have played a foundational role in upholding racial inequities within the teaching profession. Eighty percent of public school teachers in the United States are white and female while more than 50% of the total student population is composed of minoritized students (Boser, 2014; NYSED, 2019a). There is a lack of cultural synchronicity between teachers and students in classrooms which is believed to result in unequal outcomes for minoritized students as compared to their White peers (Ingersoll, May, Collins, 2018). These findings are indicative of an underlying problem: racial and social integration has not been achieved. In …