Today is #ShutDownAcademia #ShutDownSTEM #Strike4BlackLives Day. A day for White and nonBlack persons of color to take time to reflect on racist ideas, activities, and environments in their institutions that have and continue to perpetuate racism against Black students, faculty, and staff in the academy. It also is a day and time for Black students, faculty, and staff to attend to their own needs. ... Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused faculty, Departments, and Universities to in as short as a week’s notice change their normal operating procedures to move to a virtual and safe place for teaching and research. Online courses for undergraduate and graduate students. Zoom-based preliminary and candidacy exams and even independent research proposal and dissertation defenses. Cancelled trips for ... Read More

Let’s call this blog Commencement 2020 Edition. For those of you that would have shown up to participate in your second commencement ceremony around this timeframe, many of us are so disappointed (as are you) that you have to postpone or forgo altogether a physical commencement. Commencement brings closure to an important milestone if your life.  Commencement gives you a momentous occasion to ... Read More