Dear CASE Family,
Welcome to our very first Brief-CASE Moment Newsletter. Our goal is to provide a brief, yet meaningful, news about our scholars and what great accomplishments they are achieving. Additionally, we want to provide recent information and resources that will be helpful for students, staff, and faculty.
Another semester has approached us and we are looking forward to sharing and celebrating all the success and excellence that is to come. Over the winter break, the CASE staff and I did a two-day retreat. We really evaluated where our program is and where we want to see it grow. One question I refer back to with our team constantly is, “what is our purpose for doing this work?” It is important that we are reminded of the great work that we do each day so we can support our scholars more effectively.
I am thrilled and excited to have this monthly newsletter, highlighting our scholar's great work is a great reminder of why I do what I do. Have a great start to the semester!
Donell Young, JD, MA
Director, Center for Academic Success & Excellence
Undergraduate Studies
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Engagement & Success
MU Division of Inclusion, Diversity & Equity
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A Launchpad to the Future
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By: Nia Martin and Ciara McCaskill
Most college students await anxiously for the day of graduation, not in nervousness of crossing the stage and accepting their diploma, but instead, in fear that nothing waits for them afterwards. Senior Jeanette Greene, Chicago native, Civil Engineering major, and CASE Scholar, wasted no time in preparing and equipping herself with tools that would help her succeed in the future...
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Perseverance and Persistence: CASE 2018 Salute to Excellence Recap
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By: Nia Martin
Perseverance, the continued persistence and resilience to accomplish a goal, course of action, or purpose despite the obstacles one may encounter. A word repeated throughout the evening...
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Pursuit to Excellence Banquet
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By: Ryan Owens - College of Enginnering
The Mizzou Engineering Office of Diversity and Outreach Initiatives and the MU Center for Academic Excellence and Success hosted the second-annual Pursuit of Excellence Banquet on Thursday in Columbia...
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COURSES AVAILABLE FOR STUDENTS IN NEED!
(Dunkley) BLSTU 2604/CARIBBEAN HISTORY AND CULTURE Mon/Wed 1:00 Pm-2:15 Pm, ARTS & SCIENCE 202
This course surveys the historical and cultural development of the Caribbean, along with tracing the gender relations, imperial rivalries, economic dependency, and ultimately nationalism and economic independence by providing critical tools needed to gain a working knowledge of African Diaspora History and Culture from an interdisciplinary perspective. This course meets requirements for the Black Studies major, minor, and A&S Diversity Intensive requirements.
BLSTU 3804/RESISTANCE IN THE BLACK ATLANTIC Mon/Wed 3:00 Pm-4:15 Pm ARTS & SCIENCE 201
This course provides in-depth study of resistance and the Black Atlantic, focusing on the variety of ways that enslaved Black people resisted slavery in the Americas. From everyday forms of resistance to the planning of revolts, enslaved people displayed an unwillingness to yield to slavery, assertions of their freedom built on political, philosophical, and economic concepts about society and the rights of human beings. Resistance in what is known as the black Atlantic can be divided into nonviolent and violent forms, but within each of these categories were scores of activities validating the claim that the enslaved never accepted slavery or lost their sense of freedom as human beings. By focusing on nonviolent, violent, every day and periodic forms of resistance, this course examines how the agency of the enslaved served as a foundation for the culture of freedom in the Americas. Resistance is used to explore the influence of blacks on the historical evolution of the Americas, and the overall aim of this course is to give students an understanding of black resistance as one of the most important sources of the progress of the Atlantic world. This course meets requirements for the Black Studies major, minor, and A&S Diversity Intensive requirements.
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