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Tag: Center for Black Studies

LaVerne Gyant shares U.S. perspective in global webinar on Black Lives Matter

July 13, 2020 Mark McGowan Uncategorized

LaVerne Gyant shared her view on Black Lives Matter with an international audience. A professor in the Department of Counseling and Higher Education and former director of the NIU Center for Black Studies, she was invited to serve as the keynote speaker

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Grad students modify Chicago research to address host site’s COVID-19 concerns

April 19, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, ETRA, LEPF

During this strange era of COVID-19, the adage about “the best-laid plans” has proven itself more than a cliché. For Dean Laurie Elish-Piper and Laura Ruth Johnson, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment, their work that

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Community Learning Series explores concepts, challenges of social justice

April 16, 2019 Mark McGowan CAHE, CI, enewsletter

Jocelyn Santana remembers going to protests and picket lines with her mother, a public school teacher, even though she was too young to understand what was happening. She remembers sitting among “brown and black bodies” in a remedial math classroom at her

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Community Learning Series will explore social justice during April 11 discussion

March 26, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Joe Flynn grew up with a clear sense of his primary role and duty in society. “I was always raised to think about where other people are coming from, and what struggles folks have, and that oftentimes the things that people have

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