#Students

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond - and his response
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So I tried to lay out race and the Coronavirus to my students yesterday and figured it might be helpful for some people to hear. It's imperfect but here goes:
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Looking for something to watch this week? Here are 7 things that are NEW ON NETFLIX this week... BEN PLATT LIVE FROM RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Tony-award winning performer Ben
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What good is a doctor who got an A+ in CHEM110 if they refuse to use best practice guidelines to mitigate the racist beliefs they have about how Māori don’t
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Farmer protests in Punjab about new laws that will destroy what's left of their livelihoodsThis all started with firstly diverting punjab river waters by laws by Indira Gandhi government in
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I don't know which Indonesian University students need to hear this but OSPEK is an Imperialist tradition that for some reason is still being practiced on National/State Universities and Private
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THREAD: I think this piece by @JoshuaMound poses some useful provocations. I also think to some extent he sets up a straw man (specifically @AlecMacGillis). It is possible to both
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Today marks the last day of our project “Educating Future Change Agents”. A 3.5 year journey with great colleagues and PhDs comes to an end. What did we find out
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In this excellent article, @rickperlstein argued that historians had not paid sufficient attention to the more "surreal" dimensions of the history of American conservatism. Today I went down two surreal
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Over the past couple of years, I've had dozens of med student shadows, and they all ask me the same questions about choosing to do surgery, particularly the women... Here's
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Thread: Why are colleges being so bullish about an in-person fall semester? @rkelchen diagnosed some of the likely variables in this piece: https://chroni.cl/315BbtN But I've been wondering if institutional prestige may
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Dear med schools, *now with references*!1. Have you asked the Black communities how best to support their children to become the health professionals at your medical center? Pre-meds in high
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The talk about final straws reminded me that I wanted to talk about something else in that same vein and forgot. The other day one of my very close friends
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THREAD- You might be 1 week into your 8 week term, or starting your 7 week term at the end of your 1 or 2 week half term. However, the
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And the jury found the murderers to be not guilty. Joyce Landers compares the murder of Emmett Till to the murders of “Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice
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Saturday story time: in 2011 I played on the Rochester Mayo High School tennis team that won state in MN (I promise this isn’t a brag story. That would be
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