Welcome to the Rope Teams Faculty Champions Program! Designed to support your curricular, instructional and assessment efforts as well as to encourage and facilitate your engagement in our career and identity/allyship rope teams, the Faculty Champions program is a shared opportunity to enhance the student experience. This program is led jointly by the Excelsior University Career Readiness Center and the Center for Social Justice to provide you with the resources, connections and support to ensure together our students’ personal, academic, career and intercultural development and success.
Excelsior University was founded in 1971 to make the transformative power of education accessible to all. This was our mission then. It remains our mission now.
We have taken note of several actions and headlines that may seem to call …
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The United States of America is currently experiencing significant changes in its government, politics, and culture. A number of focus areas of this transition are controversial, and many of them could impact or are already beginning to affect members of …
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The Center for Social Justice and the Civic Engagement Rope Team hosted Dr. Ngonidzashe Munemo, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Hamilton College, for A Conversation on Inclusive Dialogue on Wednesday, Jan. 29.
Dr. Munemo discussed …
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Hanukkah is the eight-day Jewish celebration that commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. According to Jewish scholars, Hanukkah is one of the few Jewish holidays not found in the Torah, but the story of how Hanukkah came …
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History of Kwanzaa
In 1966, Dr. Maulana Karenga professor and chairman of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach created Kwanzaa after the Watts riots. In an effort to bring African Americans together as a community, he combined aspects …
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