Tag: education

The Concerned Latins Organization

“And they really—under the umbrella of education, housing, and employment—try to confront a lot of the discrimination and issues that the community has faced in the region.” https://youtu.be/Cu_sVNwrMyU Historian Emiliano Aguilar, doctoral student Northwestern University Transcript for The Concerned Latins...
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Me Coming Home

"...the Mexican-American community in the United States – it wasn't really taught in high school." https://youtu.be/7RlvTsqhRMc Transcript for Me Coming Home That’s another mentality, too. Growing up in East Chicago, everyone wanted to know where you were. And you always...
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Paid Dividends

"I felt, Wow, this is scary because I want to be in there with him...and Can I do that? Am I capable of that?" Welcome Project at Valparaiso University · Paid Dividends Produced by...
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Part 2: All of That Changed for Me

"To go from a school that was predominantly African American to just the complete opposite was a little bit of a culture shock." https://youtu.be/l8UoRD1_2RE Part 2 of an oral history story from an interview with Mayor Jerome Prince, Gary, Indiana....
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The Other Side of Life

"Had it not been for this gentleman here, I would have much easier graduated from reform school than high school." Produced by Rich Elliott with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose...
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Motivating Force

"You can make positives out of situations and we did that as an all-black school in an all-black community." https://youtu.be/Gl4ZSFibOrE Transcript for Motivating Force Today, if any student was going to Gary Roosevelt as I remember Gary Roosevelt and others,...
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Seeing Them Make Those Discoveries

"...because they don’t have access to the language like everybody else does. They don’t get that incidental learning from just overhearing something and pairing that to their experiences." Produced by Rich Elliott Transcript...
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Things Like That, They Happened

"You kind of adjusted… we didn’t like it. We just, we kind of adjusted." https://youtu.be/E9wjSZH8shw Transcript for Things Like That, They Happened We grew up in the neighborhood that was near Pulaski School. And at the time that I went,...
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International Education at Valparaiso University – An Oral History

“The goal was always to get more students here and get more of our students to go abroad.” The following stories, edited by Nick Ladeau, offer a portrait of how international education was established and developed at Valparaiso University. Study...
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