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Black Student Union Demands: A Response To Racially Hostile Campus Climates, Beleqsa Tamaami May 2016

Black Student Union Demands: A Response To Racially Hostile Campus Climates, Beleqsa Tamaami

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This paper looks at how college campuses across the globe foster racially hostile climates that negatively impact Black students’ college experience both in and outside the classroom. I use Critical Race Theory (CRT) as an analytical framework to examine Black college students demands in response to their experiences with racism on campus. For this thesis, colleges include community colleges, four-year institutions, and universities. In my findings I break down my analysis of the list of Black Student Union (BSU) Demands by looking at how Black college students challenge and respond to a racial climate in both Academic and Student Affairs. …


The Value Of Technology Grants In Schools: A Case Study On The Connected Initiative In An Inner City Los Angeles Primary School, Kathryn J. Drohman Apr 2016

The Value Of Technology Grants In Schools: A Case Study On The Connected Initiative In An Inner City Los Angeles Primary School, Kathryn J. Drohman

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As entities from governmental and nongovernmental sectors search for means of developing underserved localities, public-private partnerships have been built to provide education technology to primary schools. In the current neoliberal, digital age, information and communication technology (ICT) is widely perceived as a value-implicit differentiator because of the information it can access and construct for its users. To further understand the implications of public-private partnerships in ICT initiatives occurring in American elementary schools, this thesis reports a study of the initial implementation of the U.S. White House ConnectED Initiative’s grant in an inner city Los Angeles school, sponsored by Apple Incorporated. …