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An Outsider’s View, Self-Worth

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Amara Banks, a current law student at Yale, says that Chua has set an important example in life: “You can do whatever you want as a lawyer, as an academic, and as a woman of color.” “I I think about that all the time, when I see people doing cool things out in the world with backgrounds totally different from mine,” says Banks.

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Higher Education Innovation That Builds Workforce-Ready Graduates: Changing Higher Ed podcast 250 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Alex Hernandez

The Change Leader, Inc.

My first job was for the big bank in New York City and for us, education, was what allowed that jump for our family that opportunity, it changed my life, it changed my kid’s life. It was a classmate of mine. Alex Hernandez: Thank you. So my journey really starts with my dad. He was a farm worker, a manual laborer.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Vann Woodward stopping me in Yale’s Sterling Library and asking what I thought about Clement Eaton’s Freedom of Thought in the Old South , which I awkwardly likened to Woodward’s Strange Career of Jim Crow. They rely on a campus food bank and basic-needs hub to meet their survival needs. I still vividly recall C.

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