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Compton College Addresses Student Homelessness and Basic Needs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When you think about our history, were the first community college in the state of California whose accreditation was revoked, and to go from that in 2006 to be where were at now and to be on the cutting edge, that tells you that transformation can happen, but transformation can happen in communities where we look like the students.

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Association of American Law Schools President Speaks on Cooperative Politics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And in 2006, he served as general counsel for Cory Booker’s Newark mayoral election. in architecture from Yale. Bill Bradley’s presidential campaign, a position he held again for Sen. Barack Obama in 2008, he said. Alexander holds a J.D. from Yale University Law School and a B.A.

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Itinerant dimensions of field/work in architecture

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Emma Bush, Master of Architecture fieldtrip to Cadiz, Spain, 2006. – Ewing (2011), in ‘ Architecture and Field/Work’, p.4 The fieldtrip can act as a balance to this alleged weakness, and becomes a place for critical transformation of aspects of architectural knowledge and practice.

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Immersions and encounters: Fieldwork in landscape architecture

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

It is February 2006. The practice of landscape architecture would be purely academic were it not for the field. The landscape architecture programmes at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) are professional programmes. Elinor’s approach to research is enriched by a ‘making with’ approach to landscape architecture design.

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Landscapes of Learning for Unknown Futures: Reflections on the Assemblages Symposium

SRHE

Combining insights from her own investigations of posthuman materialities with critical contributions by Braidotti (2019), Barad (2007), Delanda (2006) and Bennett (2010), Carol moved to trouble normalised and common sense ideas about knowledge-making and space.

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Pursuing Life’s Passion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture, Howard University Tenured: No Age: 39 Education: B.A., architecture and visual studies, University of Pennsylvania; and M.A., When it comes to the study of architecture, often the subject is presented through a Eurocentric lens.

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Freedom of speech and students’ unions

SRHE

At this point, the careful architecture of the authors’ argument starts to crumble, not least because left-wing populists and others (eg the NUS) are in exactly the same ‘gap’, which is really a chasm.”