Graduation is fast approaching and the perfect way to celebrate is stopping by GradFest to pick up an Alumni glass, eat a paw cookie and enter to win a door prize. GradFest will be held at the Alumni House Monday, November 2 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Wednesday, November 4 from 12-7 p.m..
The discovery of a lifetime
The new Panther Promise Academy is looking to boost retention and graduation rates of minority students by building community. “We want these students to not only stay in college and graduate, but to become leaders along the way,” says director De’Carlos Anderson.
Faculty, staff and students were hard at work this fall to make progress on a number of diversity and inclusion projects. The goal? To make UNI a truly welcoming, inclusive and diverse place.
UNI biology major Catherine Yeoman found her passion working with marine animals. The undergrad has already studied bottlenose dolphins in Florida and helped rehabilitate baby seals in Cape Code.
The value of forgiveness
2020 brought plenty to be angry about. There’s been a global pandemic, a national reckoning with racial injustice, an economic crisis and a presidential election - all of it debated each day on social media. But UNI education professor Suzanne Freedman, who has specialized in forgiveness research over nearly three decades and teaches a course on the subject, said now may be a good time to remember the benefits of forgiveness, empathy and understanding.
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