EXPLAINER: Selecting the next president and provost of UHCL
After the departure of former UHCL President Ira K. Blake, UH System Chancellor Renu Khator is beginning the search for UHCL’s sixth president.
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EXPLAINER: Land acknowledgments begins conversation on local Indigenous history
Both UHCL and the Pearland satellite campus sit on the land of Akokisa, Karankawa, Coachuiltecan and Atakapa-Ishak peoples. The Coachuiltecans span across south Texas and the Tāp Pīlam Coahuiltecan Nation’s headquarters is in San Antonio.
EXPLAINER: Texas faces energy crisis during Winter Storm Uri
Winter Storm Uri affected the United States, northern Mexico and parts of Canada. In Texas, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) implemented rolling blackouts to conserve energy. Some of these blackouts lasted days and caused a…
EXPLAINER: Looking at toxic tropes in women characters and how they are examined
Both modern and classical stories have represented women as either the virtuous virginal figure or the seductive temptress. Now there are more options for women, however many of those options still fall into toxic tropes.
EXPLAINER: Institutional racism persists through textbook design
In an effort to tackle the issues of racism and anti-blackness of the present, educators look to the past for answers. America’s past and the way it is portrayed in textbooks can fall short.
EXPLAINER: The environmental justice movement and the fight against environmental racism
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website states that environmental justice “is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the…
EXPLAINER: Racism built and maintained in America’s food systems
Like healthcare, racial disparities and differences play a part in every organized system across the United States and globally. This includes American food systems from the start of European colonization to present-day inequities.
EXPLAINER: Bostock v. Clayton County
Led by Justice Neil Gorsuch, The Supreme Court came to a 6-3 decision that LGBTQ+ individuals could not be fired by employers based on sexual orientation or gender identity in the landmark case, Bostock v Clayton County.
EXPLAINER: Why Black Americans experience disparities in healthcare
When receiving healthcare people would think this is a time that all people would be treated equally however this is not always the case.
EXPLAINER: Zoom disruptions cause for reevaluation of app usage
Zoom has been one of the go-to apps during the COVID-19 global pandemic. The company, unfortunately, fell short on privacy and security expectations. Users began to experience incidents dubbed as “Zoombombing.”