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WHY LEADERS SHOULD CONSIDER SIMILARITIES BETWEEN CAMPUS UPRISINGS AND THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK By Ty-Ron M.O. Douglas, author of Campus Uprisings: How Student Activists and Collegiate Leaders Resist Racism and Create Hope. You can reach him on Twitter at @DrTyDouglas While not a campus uprising in the way that most of us traditionally think of uprisings, the Covid-19 outbreak has created unprecedented uncertainty and disequilibrium across...

“Some Place to Call Home”: Foster Care and Child Welfare Often conditions of poverty are confused with conditions of neglect, which may mean their children are going hungry and are malnourished, living in an unhealthy or unsafe mold and rat infested building. Unemployment and poverty weigh down on both the mind and the body. The chronic stress they experience coupled with...

Recommendations for Institutions of Higher Education Edited by Tyrone C. Howard, Jonli Tunstall, and Terry K. Flennaugh Colleges and universities (especially land-grant institutions) have an obligation to increase the pool of those students who are included in the applicant pool and subsequently admitted and who come from underserved and systemically marginalized communities. While previous chapters have outlined a number of action items...

Teachers College Press expresses solidarity with all of those calling for social justice and an end to systemic racism, discrimination, and police violence. We grieve for the senseless murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Rayshard Brooks, and so many of our Black neighbors, friends, and family. Dismantling the white supremacy that is so deeply embedded in our institutions,...