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Commentary on 1994’s “Poor turnout”

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It’s quite remarkable to note that over 20 years later, our curriculum still lacks any “diversity” requirement, especially when one considers how many times such a requirement has been demanded and come up in conversations around the curriculum. While Connections requires a first year seminar, two semesters of language, and several ambiguous “modes of inquiry,” there is no requirement for students to explicitly study power, oppression, racism etc.

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“Poor turnout plagues EPC General ED open meetings”

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Despite poor student and faculty turnout the second subcommittee of the Educational Planning Committee, focused on the creation of a human...

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Questions of Equity and Inclusion: Voice Profiles New DIEI

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To the College’s fast growing collection of administrative positions, there has been a high profile and long-awaited addition: the Dean...

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What is Normalization, and Why Do We Need to Talk About It?

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Connecticut College, like many college campuses, is a place where student activism can really mean something.  It is a place where student...

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Mass-Produced Online Content Hubs: Exploitative, Not Just Annoying

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As an editor for a small college newspaper, I recognize that it would be virtually impossible for me to critique online mass publications...

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Developing Contentions Over Tenure and Promotion

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The cloud of tenureship hangs over the Connecticut College campus every spring. Who was accepted? Who was denied? And why? Every faculty...

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Welcome to Hamas West: Connecticut College continues to be entangled in polarized Israel – Palestine discourse

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It seems we can’t go very long at Connecticut College without issues of free speech and the “events of last spring” returning to...

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CELS Bridges Academia and Post-Grad

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Though my graduation is three years away, knowing I have to leave Conn makes me worry about eventually suspending my participation in...

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No, This is Not 1934

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The presidential election season is upon us once again! Every four years we experience lively political discourse, televised debates and...

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