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TikTok Challenge- a place for students and administrators to show off their personalities and talents in TikTok video challenges. ? Free Food- a channel where campus community members can post about free or leftover food on campus. This will help to prevent waste and provide food to those who are in need.
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in Higher Education and StudentAffairs from the University of South Carolina; Ph.D. in higher education and studentaffairs. For Ford, that sit-down also typifies the kind of concern for underrepresented students that is direly needed at colleges and universities in the U.S. I can grow food.
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