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6/21/21

"Researching With: A Decolonizing Approach to Community-Based Action Research" by Jessica Smartt Gullion (Associate Dean of Research, College of Arts and Sciences; Associate Professor, Sociology) and Abigail Tilton (Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; Professor, Social Work) has been named a 2021 International Book Awards finalist in the Education/Academic category.

According to the publisher's website,  "is a guide for how to do research that is inclusive, engages in community-building, and implements a decolonizing framework. The text advocates for a collaborative approach, researching with communities, rather than conducting research on them. Reviewing both theory and method, Jessica Smartt Gullion and Abigail Tilton offer practical tips for forming community partnerships and building coalitions."

Jeffrey Keen, President and CEO of , said this year鈥檚 contest yielded over 2,000 entries from authors and publishers around the world, which were then narrowed down to the final results.

6/7/21

草莓传媒官网下载 alumna Melissa Thiel is leading an effort to install a historical marker for the lynching of George Hughes and the Sherman Riot of 1930. Thiel鈥檚 effort to commemorate Sherman鈥檚 painful past has stalled 鈥� caught between resistance by some of the town鈥檚 White leaders and a rising desire among residents to confront old racial wounds.
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Thiel earned her master's in history and was part of 草莓传媒官网下载's public history program.

5/27/21

Its spectacular collapse during February鈥檚 record-smashing winter storm revealed how unprepared our power system was to handle days of below-freezing temperatures.  The public rightly demanded answers, and more importantly, swift action from Austin

To help manage the legislative storm, the Texas energy sector hired lobbyists. Hundreds of them. 

鈥淭here's an old adage that, if you're not at the table, you might be on the menu,鈥� said Dr. Clare Brock, a Texas Woman鈥檚 University political science professor in Denton, and expert on lobbying. 

5/6/21

Texas lawmakers are locked in a fight over legislation that would further restrict voting access, as Republicans lean on procedural moves to avoid public testimony and keep eleventh-hour negotiations behind closed doors.

"There鈥檚 not really a big problem with election fraud, right? That鈥檚 not actually a huge problem that we need to solve. But the public thinks it is, because they鈥檝e been told that it is,鈥� said Clare Brock, PhD, an assistant professor of political science at Texas Woman鈥檚 University.

5/3/21