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Like I said, I joined the Black Student Union really early on, because one of the things that I was really afraid of was that if I got too much education, that I would stop being black enough, right?…
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So to me advice around being successful, especially here at a university campus, would be things like: being curious, going outside your comfort zone, trying to find for yourself a balance where you…
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Teachers. Student: Teachers. Daniel: Yeah, I don’t think my parents, I think, I think my dad, I think my mom supported in her own way but she didn’t understand. My mom barely, you know,…
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Oh yeah. It's called “code switching”, right, so in some ways--- So a couple of things before I get to code switching. I think that so like, when I’m with my family, they see…
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You know academically, I was really lucky that I had gone to a pretty good high school, where I was able to take a lot of the hard classes and so I think that academically I felt like I was pretty…
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Well, I was a commuter because I went to school like I said at the local college and it was for town people; it was just assumed that you would commute, that you'd live at home and that…
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There has always been times when I first got to Canada that I always felt like a minority because Canada is a very white place. So being in a white place as a man of color or a boy of color growing…
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Student: Did you ever feel really out of place, and if so, do you think it was because you were a first generation student or just became it’s a common college student feeling? Allison: An…
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As a college freshman, I went to UC Davis, which is the University of California Davis, in Davis, CA. So my major was Community and Regional Development and minor was in Education, and that is what I…
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Well, right out of high school, I went to a local college called Chipola College. And, after that, because there was a break in graduation, I actually stepped out and I joined the military, and I did…
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Wow, okay. So I grew up in a very rural area, small schools, I think we talked about that. Grade school was two grades in a classroom with an eighth grade class of only 13, we were huge. So, that…
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Well let's see Karl, things got tough…I think I always harken back to, and then again this is going to sound kind of strange, to my ancestors. So, I never had anybody in my family who…
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I think we bring about a unique perspective, and this goes back to what I was saying in terms of the challenge, right, if our challenge is how do we balance all these competing expectations, between…
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I think a lot of, a lot of sort of new ways of thinking, new sort of experiences, again, because we know that college education is sort of, is tracks along economic and whatever lines that it's…
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I think they add a toughness, you know, I mean I think that there is, there is an attribute that comes with having survived struggle that brings to an organization a kind a heart that it…
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Well I think it's like any degree of diversity, you know, what does anybody bring to the bargain? I think all of us are unique individuals. You're as different from me as we are from each…
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Date: May 17, 2016 Location: OSU Native American Longhouse Eena Haws More Information: http://wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu/oregon-multicultural-archives/2016/05/17/celebrating-first/
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