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Brown Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Celebrates 10 Years

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When Brown University released its landmark 2006 report documenting the institution’s historical involvement in slavery, many of its recommendations were one-time fixes: revising the university’s official history, creating memorials, and the like.

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Fostering Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I think public institutions have a mission to make sure that those in society have access to higher education,” says Alexander, who arrived at UCLA in 2006. Several times, Tajrian asked to meet with Alexander, and despite his busy schedule he made time for her. Coming from such a background drives him. “I

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Revisiting Summer Reads

Purdue University Global

I am in the midst of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall , a wonderful, prize-winning historical novel about Thomas Cromwell, but I am struggling to get through it thanks to my own hectic schedule and the start of my son’s summer vacation. Dale, a 2006 feature title at the National Book Festival, is used by classes and book groups around the country.

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Summer Reads

Purdue University Global

I am in the midst of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall , a wonderful, prize-winning historical novel about Thomas Cromwell, but I am struggling to get through it thanks to my own hectic schedule and the start of my son’s summer vacation. Dale, a 2006 feature title at the National Book Festival, is used by classes and book groups around the country.