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Integrating Arts as a Healing Force

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Louisville native Dr. Jabani Bennett is an interdisciplinary visual artist, yoga instructor, community-engaged educator, leadership consultant, dancer, and mama. She is also the first Black and openly queer director in the University of Louisville Women’s Center’s 30-year history. The Women’s Center at the University of Louisville (UofL) was founded in 1991 and continues to serve as a resource and space of belonging for women, femmes, and gender-expansive individuals within and outside the UofL

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Farewell, Ucas personal statements: I won’t miss your hackneyed, cliche-ridden prose | Max Fletcher

The Guardian Higher Education

These hated essays are going to be scrapped. It’s good news for those who can’t afford private tutors – and for those who had to read them Every autumn, as the fruit fills with ripeness to the core and the small gnats mourn among the river sallows, my inbox fills with requests for help from parents whose children have been tasked with writing an essay of 4,000 characters in which they explain to their prospective universities why they want to study a given subject.

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Florentine First Steps

ISA Journal

Quick, get the camera! She’s taken her first steps in Italy! Okay sorry, that was a little corny. But I’ve made it to my home for the next several weeks: Florence, Italy!

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