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A Curriculum Designed To Teach Elementary-Age Children In Diverse Settings The Kingdom Concept Of Loving One’S Neighbor, Abigail J. Flood

ELAIA

United States Census data from 2020 show that the country is becoming increasingly diverse and urbanized. Other research shows children are aware of race from an early age and can pick up biases and stereotypes by watching the adults around them. However, there are no children’s ministry curricula that specifically address how children should navigate differences from a biblical perspective. To fill this gap, a children’s ministry curriculum was written to model how children can love their neighbors like Jesus did, especially those who look different from themselves. The curriculum is comprised of an introduction for the ministry leader, five …

The Grizzly, February 22, 2024, Marie Sykes, Kathy Logan, Sidney Belleroche, Kate Horan, Andrew J. Perez, Dominic Minicozzi, James Rapp

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Voluntary Retirement Program: Limited Time Offer • Senior Class Celebrated 100 Days Till Graduation • Which Justices are Just? • A Conversation With Esther Akande: Recently-Graduated President of SUN • New Dungeons & Dragons Club: "The Only Limit is Your Imagination!" • Sedona Taphouse's Satisfying Eats • Painting the Postseason Picture • Ursinus Men's LAX on the Attack!

The Latino Cultural Center: Higher Education And The Importance Of Community, Kamilah Mercedes Valentín Díaz

Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement

The Latino Cultural Center (LCC) at Purdue University is 1 of 2 in the state of Indiana, with the other housed at Indiana University. Choosing to pursue higher education has its challenges, but not everyone has access to the same resources or community support that helps make the process easier. The LCC, like the other cultural centers on campus, is vital in distributing resources that aid in student success. They work to create an inclusive environment for the entire campus community by fostering meaningful dialogue and cultural understanding of the Latino/e/x community. They aim to support Latino/e/x faculty and staff …

White Male Privilege, Diversity-As-Deficit, And Tokenism In The North American University: Reflections On Netflix’S The Chair, Annamma Joy

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

Ji-Yoon, an Asian-American woman, is the newly appointed chair of the English department at Pembroke University, a lower-tier Ivy League school. Most of the department’s faculty are older and white and male, but do include a female white professor, Joan Hambling, clearly suffering from marginalization. There is also a young black faculty member named Yasmin McKay, whom Ji-Yoon wants to make the university’s first black tenured professor in the English department. Yaz, as they call her, has published in the top journals and is loved by her students, who flock to take her courses. There are other story dynamics dealing …

A Trauma Responsive Approach To Fostering Resilience, Addressing Equity Issues And Improving Student Wellness And Academic Success, Mark Harrington, Joe Thompson, Kimberly Witeck

National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference

We’ll start with our school’s motto, “Family, Love, Respect,” which is posted in nearly every hallway, office and gathering place in our school. We attempt to provide each student with a strong sense of each. Although ours is an alternative high school, filled with stories of trauma, neglect and despair, our students are resilient! With that in mind we have created a number of programs to encourage resilience, provide a healthy path forward, decrease student discipline, and foster student success. All of these programs, and the stories we share detailing what our students have overcome show just how resilient young …

Diversity Still Matters: School-Level Racial Diversity, Poverty And Performance Of New York City Public Schools, Byunghwa Kim

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

During the last few decades, schools in New York City (NYC) have experienced great demographic changes due to the massive influx of various ethnic and racial groups. Although the race and ethnicity makeup of NYC is 42% white, 29% Hispanic or Latino, 24% Black or African American and 14% Asian, 74% of Black and Hispanic students attend a school with less than 10 percent white students, while 34% of white students attend a school with more than half white peers. Also, more than 60% of Hispanic and Black students are attending schools where more than 75% of peer students experience …

The Grizzly, April 28, 2022, Layla Halterman, Vaughn Dibattista, Chase Portaro, Cici Chagnon, Phoebe Tompkins, John Murray, Morgan Mason, Steven Weissman, Marie Sykes, Ava Compagnoni

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

The New Normal: A Spotlight on Women's Wrestling • A Conversation with the New Division of Inclusion and Community • Note from the News Editor • Dancing the Night Away: UCDC's Spring Concert • That's All, Folks: Goodbye Dr. Throop! • The Man Behind the Grizzly: Doron Taussig • A Note from the Features Editor • Opinions: Bring Back the Old Jazzman's • A Note from the Opinions Editor • A Note from the Sports Editor • D3 Baller to D1 Coach • Ballin' in Europe

The Grizzly, April 21, 2022, Layla Halterman, Chase Portaro, Marie Sykes, Jenna Smith, Erin Corcoran, Cici Chagnon, Steven Weissman, Vaughn Dibattista

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

A Look Into Ursinus's "Quest" for an Inclusive Campus • Contact Without a Trace! • Get to Know Dr. Carol Dole • Meet Eva Wright! • Opinions: Club Sports Should Have Athletic Trainers • Trophy Brophy • The Get-Back: Ursinus Softball

The Grizzly, March 24, 2022, Layla Halterman, Marie Sykes, Chase Portaro, Erin Corcoran, Vaughn Dibattista, Abigail Coachi, Simbarashe Kanjanda, Nikole Lizeth, Fandino Pachon, Brooke Hurley, James Schuld, Ro Murphy

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

A Conversation With Incoming President Hannigan • Art for Visibility • Kappa Alpha Psi: Seeking Achievement • Opinions: The Inconvenience of Main Street Sidewalk Construction • Men's Basketball Closes Season • Swim CCC Recap

The Grizzly, March 3, 2022, Layla Halterman, Chase Portaro, Alena Deantonellis, Marie Sykes, Madison Handwerger, Vaughn Dibattista

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Wismer Finally Steps Up Its Game • Meet Dr. Amoroso-O'Connor • Test Your Ursinus Knowledge • Opinions: Black History Month at Ursinus • Wrestling Closes a Standout Season • A Solo Senior

The Grizzly, February 11, 2021, Simra Mariam, Ashley Mccomeskey, Marie Skyes, Layla Halterman, Ava Compagnoni, Rosalia Murphy

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Letter From a Graduate • PA COVID-19 Vaccine Update for Ursinus Students • Student Success is a Priority to Ursinus Staff • V.IRTU.E Club • "Breaking Invisible Barriers": The Mission for More Empathy • Opinion: Wintertime Socially Distanced Activities • Mental Health Check-in with Students and Staff • Successful Women's Tennis Season Cut Short: What Comes Next?

Implicit Bias Training For Woke Faculty, Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt

Faculty Publications

Dr. Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt pens a satirical memo from higher education administrators to faculty regarding implicit bias training.

This essay originally appeared as part of Conditionally Accepted, a career advice blog for Inside Higher Ed providing news, information, personal stories, and resources for scholars who are, at best, conditionally accepted in academe. Conditionally Accepted is an anti-racist, pro-feminist, pro-queer, anti-transphobic, anti-fatphobic, anti-ableist, anti-ageist, anti-classist, and anti-xenophobic online community.

A Case Study Of The Experiences Of Black Female Faculty At Research-Intensive Schools Of Social Work, Lashawnda N. Fields

Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Representation has improved over the past 40 years among Black female faculty members in social work schools; however, low academic rank and distribution of this demographic across institutions is one way in which predominately White institutions (PWI) of higher education perpetuate racial inequalities. Higher education, in general, continues to result in negative experiences and poor outcomes for Black female faculty members such as time to tenure, low academic rank, and feelings of isolation. However, little is known about the experiences of this demographic in schools of social work, particularly those identified as research-intensive (R-1) Carnegie-designated institutions of higher education. This …

The Grizzly, March 5, 2020, Kevin Leon, Gillian Mccomeskey, Luke Robles, Kim Corona, Abigail Peabody, Lillian Vila Licht, Madison Rodak, Daniel Walker, Jake Supran, Ellie Lafountain

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Musical "9 to 5" Sells Out Lenfest Theater • UC Mourns the Loss of Carol Williams • Calling for Nominations for Faculty Awards • Talk on the Role of Women in Campaign Funding • Weekly Lunches Encourage Conversation • Everything to Know About UC UNICEF • Opinion: On Bloomberg and the Boys in Blue • Men's Lax Can Count on Bobby McClure Scoring Goals • Ursinus Baseball is Ready for the New Season

The Grizzly, September 12, 2019, Kevin Leon, Katherine Chicano, Kim Corona, Rosalia Murphy, Madison Rodak, Colleen Murphy, Jenni Berrios, Daniel Walker, Lauren Viola, Gabriela Howell

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

The Commons is Coming • Ursinus Celebrates its 150th Birthday • High Expectations for Women's Field Hockey • Proposal Submission Deadline for Ursinus' Inclusive Community Grants is Approaching • Berman Exhibit Lands on Campus • Who ya Gonna Call? Campus Safety • Opinions: Is Climate Anxiety the New Nuclear Anxiety?; Meatless Options: A Positive Trend • A Promising Start for Ursinus Men's Soccer • Senior Spotlight: Tom Garlick

The Case For Heterodoxy, Betsy Greenleaf Yarrison

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Despite being originally designed to educate men, honors programs are not very attractive to male students in general and to male students of color in particular. Because access to honors programs is limited by a credentialing process that favors white men, many members of minority groups find them inhospitable and are significantly underrepresented. This essay suggests three concepts to be used to reimagine honors programs to be more welcoming of minority students: radical hospitality, asset-based thinking, and heterodoxy.

Taking On The Challenges Of Diversity And Visibility: Thoughts From A Small Honors Program, Kathryn M. Macdonald

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The Monroe College Honors Program, located in New York, enjoys an extremely diverse student body, which can be attributed to its location within and proximity to New York City. Data about the Monroe College Honors Program are presented. More importantly, this essay presents the strategies that the honors program uses to meet the needs of a diverse student body. Our students face many challenges, including difficult family situations and economic hardship, and so the honors program has created a rigorous but flexible curriculum and co-curriculum to meet their needs. The approaches used to serve this population focus on getting to …

Congregational Honors: A Model For Inclusive Excellence, Naomi Yavneh Klos

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

This essay proposes a conception of honors programs and colleges as sacred communities that acknowledge and embrace the unique human dignity of each of their members. Drawing on Ron Wolfson’s congregational model articulated in Relational Judaism, McMillan and Chavis’s definition of “sense of community,” and the pedagogy of educators such as Paolo Freire and bell hooks, I argue that to create a true culture of inclusive excellence, an honors program or college should not be constructed as a checklist of “exceptional experiences for exceptional students” but rather as a “community of relationships.” Leading with a student-centered, holistic focus that …

The Power Of Creation: Critical Imagination In The Honors Classroom, Jennie Woodard

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The article examines how to incorporate issues of social justice and diversity in the honors classroom through critical imagination. Inclusion and diversity are among the five strategic pillars of honors education, but the challenge is to create space for social justice as an academic inquiry. This article describes an honors project where students were tasked to come up with their own concept for a television show, using their imagination to bridge gaps in representations on television. Critical imagination allowed the students to move beyond analyzing television in its current state and conceptualize what more inclusive television could look like in …

Being Honors Worthy: Lessons In Supporting Transfer Students, Carolyn Thomas, Eddy A. Ruiz, Heidi Van Beek, J. David Furlow, Jennifer Sedell

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In the ever-growing discussion of how to build and support honors programs that reflect the diverse communities our institutions serve, the recruitment of transfer students has only recently been identified as a key avenue to enacting more equitable programs. Reflecting on four years of recruiting, enrolling, and graduating transfer students in the University Honors Program at the University of California, Davis, we push the conversation beyond how to welcome transfer students in honors to how to meaningfully support them. We present the initial findings of our ongoing self-assessment to stimulate discussion about the unique challenges and opportunities transfer students experience …

The Grizzly, March 28, 2019, Courtney A. Duchene, Skylar Haas, Shelsea Deravil, Rosalia Murphy, Sienna Coleman, Johnny Myers, Daniel Walker, David Mendelsohn, Peter Desimone, Zack Muredda

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Alumni Award Winners Announced • Diversity Monologues: A Night of Sharing • Ursinus Honors Dr. Crigler's Legacy • Changing Comic Books One Superhero at a Time • Tess Beck '20 Embracing Aussie • Ursinus Students Building Houses in South Carolina • Opinions: College Admissions Scandal is Shocking, but not Surprising; Backlash Against Rep. Omar Underlines Weakness in Democratic Leadership • The "Off to an Historic Start" Award: Dom Fiorentino • Women's Lacrosse Travels to Nashville and Earns First Win of the Season • UC Baseball Picking up Steam as Season Gets Into Full Swing

Law School News: Roger Williams University Announces 11th President 02-13-2019, Ed Fitzpatrick

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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The Grizzly, February 7, 2019, Courtney A. Duchene, Jen Joseph, Sam Rosenthal, Shelsea Deravil, Johnny Myers, Sienna Coleman, Kevin Leon, William Wehrs, Mark Leduc, Gabriela Howell

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Dean Nolan Recalls her 33 Year Career at Ursinus • Berman Exhibits Spotlight Opioid Crisis, Patriarchy • Senior Alumni Award: Its History and Value • Rhiannon Giddens to be 2019 Commencement Speaker • Inclusive Community Grant Awardees Announced • Externship Profile: Christopher Karmilowicz Explores the World of Finance • Opinions: U.S. Should Keep its Hands Off Venezuela; The Opioid Crisis: Widespread and Institutional • Men's Hoops Upsets #10 Swarthmore; Williams Jr. Earns CC Player of the Week • Konstanzer Joins 1,000 Point Club

Flipping The Jane Austen Classroom, Lynda A. Hall

English Faculty Articles and Research

The contemporary Austen classroom might appreciate cultural and racial diversity, examine popular culture’s distortions of the original texts, and consider multimodal ways of reading. This paper reflects on a course that “flipped” the research process in order to “find” Austen and her works in the popular culture and to evaluate our understanding in the twenty-first century. Students discovered the commodification and distortion of “Jane Austen” and conducted research for creative projects to learn more about the social, cultural, and historical contexts of the written texts.

The Grizzly, September 20, 2018, Johnny Myers, Madison Rodak, Kim Corona, Linda Mcintyre, Shelsea Deravil, Samantha Zubler, Kevin Leon, Gabriela Howell, Sam Rosenthal, David Mendelsohn, Courtney A. Duchene

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Changes to Faculty Parking Disgruntle Students • Berman Opens Two New Exhibits for the Fall Semester • Inclusive Community Fellowships and Grants • Healing Hurt People at the Parlee Center • Two-Legged Dog Runs Away Then Finally Finds Forever Home: Meet Deuce, Professor Scudera's Newest Dog • Help Wanted: UCARE Fall Volunteering Opportunities • Opinions: Greek Life at Ursinus is Dying; Anonymous New York Times Op-Ed is Cowardly • Football Dominates in First Three Games • UC Gymnastics has New Coach in Valenti

The Grizzly, April 19, 2018, Valerie Osborne, Kevin Leon, Julie Krasutsky, Paige Szmodis, Sarah Hojsak, Xichang Wu, Sophia Dibattista, Kim Corona, Robin Gow, David Mendelsohn, Taylor Schaeffer

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

U-Imagine Center Announces Winners of Innovation Competition • Ursinus Receives Grant for IDC • Intersex Activist Pidgeon Pagonis Screens Short Film • Class Offers Alumni and Parents a Taste of the Philadelphia (Theater) Experience • Ursinus LGBTQ Athletes Speak Out • Ursinus College Dance Company Welcomes Spring • Opinions: Ursinus Needs More Diverse Speakers Like Reyna Grande; Male Toplessness Exposes Gender Politics of Body Policing • Golf Squads Dominating Their Spring Schedules • UC Pitching Staff Weighs in on MLB's Pace-of-Play Proposals

The Grizzly, March 29, 2018, Valerie Osborne, Naseem Syed, Kim Corona, Laura Johnson, Paige Szmodis, Sophia Dibattista, Kevin Leon, Julie Krasutsky, Johnny Cope, Gabriela Howell

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Local Antiques Warehouse Closes its Doors • Cultivating Resistance Through Conversations Across Difference • International Perspective: "Good Day, Sunshine" • Kings, Queens and Everything in Between • Eat Your Way Through Edible Books • Opinions: Focus on Bomber's Mental Health Reflects White Privilege; Housing Games: Ursinus Can do Better Than Randomized Lottery • Bears are Back on Track Following California Trip • Comfort Continues Dominant Streak

The Grizzly, March 15, 2018, Valerie Osborne, Ana Dersimonian, Julie Krasutsky, Sophia Dibattista, Kim Corona, Solana Warner, David Mendelsohn

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Ursinus Evacuates Main Street Houses as Winter Storm Cuts Collegeville Power • Blomberg Hires New Special Assistant • Student Government Holds Elections This Week • SASA to Host Philly Lion Dancers • "Clybourne Park" Comes to Ursinus • Opinions: Diversity Monologues Reflect Lack of Racial Diversity; Students Should Use Art as a Form of Political Protest • Softball Wins Seven Straight in Florida • Champions: Women's Swimming 5-peats

The Grizzly, February 8, 2018, Valerie Osborne, Sophia Dibattista, Kevin Leon, Ana Dersimonian, Emily Jolly, Johnny Myers, Danielle Jordan, Gabriela Howell

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

CNN News Anchor Speaks on National Security • SUN Shines on Black History Month • Diversity Monologues Now Accepting Submissions • Breakaway Seeking Student One-Acts • Major Setback Requires Minor Improvisation • In Remembrance of Gary Hodgson • Opinions: "Get Out" is Still the Most Deserving Film of 2017; Women in Music Don't Need to "Step Up" to Earn Grammys • Bermudez Makes UC Proud at Super Bowl LII • Suler Out for Season with Knee Injury

Gvsu Honors College: A More Distinctive Experience, Alexis Ellis, Darius Youngblood, Lynn Doherty, Marissa Kahnt, Pierce Henderson,, Taylor Kooy

Undergraduate Research

In the later summer of 2017, our team was assembled from six individuals in the HNR 313 Design Thinking class at Grand Valley State University. In time, we would learn each other’s names, personalities, assign roles for the task ahead, and come to share life experiences. Alexis Ellis became our team writing lead, Darius Youngblood became the team leader, Lynn Doherty volunteered to be the scribe and recorder, Marisa Kahnt became a co-reporter and manager of human resources, Pierce Henderson became co-reporter and researcher, and Taylor Kooy became co-presenter and task manager.

With our team finalized, we were able to …