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, proactive approach to improving students’ sense of belonging, particularly those who have felt marginalized in the past. “It’s not something we’re whispering about anymore,” Hambrick said. Widespread participation is key, Hambrick added. Issues of inequity, such as the use of microaggressions, aren’t just for marginalized people to bear. Privileged people created systems of injustice, she stressed, and therefore they need to be actively involved in tearing them down. “The default is always for people of

to going to social-work school, which was helpful because social work largely focused on systems and policies, rather than the individual. I have to say that my ethics came largely from my undergraduate experience, as that was the time when I began to think critically about ethical concerns and how I would approach them. Psychology also gave me a “leg up” in graduate school because I already had the foundation for many of the theoretical concepts of the therapies I now use on a daily basis. How

educations, diversity training(s), immersions, or degrees/certificates in cultures|experiences outside their own etc…can unintentional diminish, alienate and undermine the same populations for which they espouse support. Sometimes we have to face our worst self, actively face down stereotypes, challenge our inner circle of voices (family, belief systems, etc), really listen to appreciate voices/experiences that are foreign, unfamiliar or even uncomfortable to us. What cost are we willing to pay to earn

important for our civic health.” She said that fact clearly illustrates the need to address the achievement gap through better public policies and educational support systems at every stage in the pipeline. “It’s inequitable practices in education that lead to a lack of achievement for groups of people,” she said. “If we can’t fulfill our potential because we just don’t have a way to do it, then we aren’t getting to the realization of human dignity.” Underrepresentation by the numbers Maria Chavez cited

Jewish Center Annual Alumni Journal (Winter 2017) Democratizing International Law-Making, in Olufemi Elias, and Charles Jalloh, eds., Shielding Humanity: Essays in International Law in Honor of Judge Abdul G. Koroma, (Utrecht, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Brill, 2014). Nigeria, in Dinah Shelton, ed., International Law And Domestic Legal Systems: Incorporation, Transformation And Persuasion (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)   Human Rights & State Collapse in Africa,  Utrecht

of PLU’s computing and information resources, consist of the following elements: General Use Network Use Policy Anti-Virus Software Policy Administrative Systems Use Policy Web Policy Residential Networking Policy Help Desk staff members are available to answer questions regarding computer and network use. Feel free to contact them at 253-535-7525 or helpdesk@plu.edu. Violations and Consequences The University will take reasonable and necessary steps to preserve the security of its computer and

and Cultural Criticism This course examines the role of media in producing systems of meanings and artifacts that shape popular culture and ideology. Students learn to use critical perspectives as lenses for studying texts of popular culture and for writing cultural criticism for popular and specialized audiences. (4) COMA 303 : Gender and Communication - IT This class provides an overview of how gender and communication relate in social and cultural contexts. Focusing on contemporary American

, authors, academics and hands-on practitioners, the symposium is designed to stimulate serious thinking on a single global challenge. If one is at all in doubt about this being a different world, consider that there are now 193 counties following a labyrinth of political systems and economic models, and a global population that now exceeds 7 billion.   Just as the symposium reaches out to challenge the assumptions and understanding of the PLU campus community, so too is it intended to reach out to the

Studies major. The tutorial was an introduction to the concepts, ideas, and approaches to studying food security. I learned of the principles and sustainability of food production, the stakeholders involved in food systems and their roles in mediating food access at a range of scales from individual levels, to international levels. Selected bibliography: Carolan, Michael S. Reclaiming Food Security. 1st ed. London: Tayler & Francis, 2013. Print. Cribb, Julian. The Coming Famine. 1st ed. Collingwood

with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. In order to maximize treatment gains, he worked closely with families and schools to ensure these systems were addressing issues related to his clients’ symptoms. Additionally, he remains Co-Primary Investigator of a risk and protective factors research study designed to look at correlates associated with anxiety symptoms in youth. While at UIC, Dr. Simpson was the Program Evaluator for the Urban Youth Trauma Center (UYTC), a Treatment Services Adaptation Center