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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dear Faculty and Staff,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I was recently asked for advice about how to effectively address microaggressions in the college classroom. Caught unprepared, I subsequently uncovered two works by Shaun Harper (AERA President) that I found informative. The first is:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b>Eight Actions to Reduce Racism in College Classrooms </b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i>When professors are part of the problem.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">By Shaun R. Harper and Charles H. F. Davis III<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="https://www.aaup.org/article/eight-actions-reduce-racism-college-classrooms#.YH9wyS1h3q0">https://www.aaup.org/article/eight-actions-reduce-racism-college-classrooms#.YH9wyS1h3q0</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Another version of this same article was published in
<i>Academe.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="https://web-app.usc.edu/web/rossier/publications/231/Harper%20and%20Davis%20(2016).pdf">https://web-app.usc.edu/web/rossier/publications/231/Harper%20and%20Davis%20(2016).pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I second is an older piece written for the <i>Association of American Colleges and Universities</i>. This piece describes the successful experience of ten students of color attending “white” liberal arts colleges. The students reported
satisfaction with their entire educational experience, ranging from their study abroad term to the research mentoring received from their professors. Their stories, however, are fictitious. Harper effectively uses this literary device for illuminating, “<i>what
is possible</i> when educators and administrators take seriously the responsibility of engaging diverse student populations in educationally purposeful ways.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.aacu.org/publications-research/periodicals/race-conscious-student-engagement-practices-and-equitable">https://www.aacu.org/publications-research/periodicals/race-conscious-student-engagement-practices-and-equitable</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">On the chance that you may be seeking similar readings,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Randy</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">Updates and Upcoming:</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><b>CSWS Women of Color Books In Print Event:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The Division of Equity and Inclusion is hosting an event CSWS Women of Color Project on April 23 at
3:00pm. This event presents a discussion of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Indigenous Children’s Survivance in Public Schools</i>(Routledge, 2020) by our own
<b>Leilani Sabzalian</b>. Guest panelists will include: Meredith McCoy, assistant professor and Anderson Fellow of American Studies and History at Carleton College. Kirby Brown, associate professor of English, Norman H. Brown Faculty Fellow (2019-21), director
of Native American Studies, and author of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Cherokee Writing</i>, 1907-1970 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2018). I encourage you to take this opportunity to learn from Leilani’s teachings
by registering<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/uoregon.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkcumgqjsuHdz27rb2Mdyh7JJUXwqvd46R__;!!C5qS4YX3!RFO6YUtsyDFyJdKK2biu5K0YThc6P-JLFWdrSofOlqABlCWd4WQUWXY_oB4O0iCY$"><span style="color:#954F72">here.</span></a><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Accolades: </span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">
<b>Deanna Linville</b>, contributed <a href="https://theconversation.com/what-former-foster-children-went-through-when-the-covid-19-pandemic-closed-college-campuses-156731">
this article</a><span style="color:windowtext"> to <i>The Conversation</i> on the impact of closing college campuses on former foster children. On the day it went live, it was picked up by more that 20 publications, including the
<i>Houston Chronicle</i> and the <i>Financial Times</i>. Great job, Deanna!</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b>Gina Biancarosa</b>, and the Multiple-Choice Online Casual Comprehension Assessment (MOCCA) team, were funded for their proposal “<i><span style="color:windowtext">Creating a Data-Based Decision-Making and Recommendation Tool for Reading Comprehension Instruction
Using Diagnostic Results from MOCCA</span></i><span style="color:windowtext">”</span> through the
<span style="color:windowtext">U.S. Department of Education’s 2021 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Special Education Program. Congratulations, Gina and team.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b>Jeff Sprague and Hill Walker</b>’s 2<sup>nd</sup> edition of “<i>Safe and Healthy Schools: Practical Prevention Strategies”</i> will be published by Guilford Publicatoins this fall.
<span style="color:windowtext">Well done, Jeff and Hill.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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