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Kapurura and Wachsmuth: Equity, Transparency, and Accountability
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Kapurura and Wachsmuth: Equity, Transparency, and Accountability

“A lot of people are on the margins for a lot of different reasons,” she said. “That could be [that] your sexual orientation is not societally accepted, or you’re lower income, or you battle with depression or anxiety, or you don’t have the resources you need as an LGBTQ+ student. Those students need to be heard and served, and oftentimes, they are left underserved as the majority benefits.”

Schroffner Compiles New Book from Song Compositions
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Schroffner Compiles New Book from Song Compositions

“I used to write things in a book and on a little piece of paper, but I would call them Chiemi fragments,” Schroffner said. “And I would kind of pull them out every so often like, ‘Oh yeah, I forgot about this phrase, that could be a bridge somewhere. I have to figure out where it fits. Where does that concept fit?’”

Groome Evaluates the Essence of Catholic Education in Recent Book
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Groome Evaluates the Essence of Catholic Education in Recent Book

“We’ve always taught that there are just two ways to teach a religion,” he said. “One is to teach it objectively, … not attempting in any way to influence people’s lives or their values. The other is to teach it in such a way that people embrace it and become it. But there’s a middle ground between the objective teaching and the catechizing.”

Coburn Converts BC Entrepreneurship Into ‘Golden Data’ With Jebbit
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Coburn Converts BC Entrepreneurship Into ‘Golden Data’ With Jebbit

“Jebbit is a platform that lets big brands create interactive experiences without needing to have any coding knowledge or design experience,” Coburn said. “You might go to L’Oréal’s website and see a quiz to find the right product for you … all of these quizzes and other interactive experiences are built on [Jebbit], and you can put them anywhere you want.”

Braun Named Recipient of Educational Research Award
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Braun Named Recipient of Educational Research Award

“One of the initiatives in our department … is rethinking how we teach in light of the spotlight that we have on systemic structural racism,” Braun said. “However beneath the surface it might be, to what extent is that part of the way in which we teach quantitative methods when we think that well, quantitative methods are racist? … And so, [we’re] rethinking in a rigorous way our assumptions about what’s worth studying, how we study it, how we interact with different communities, and how we interpret and communicate those results.”

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