Month: September 2011

UO Doctoral Student Offers PowerPoint Presentation on Educational Reform

Under the current austerity regime forced on school districts by lack of tax revenue, imagining a more equitable school system that respects individuals may seem out of step with the business oriented forces at work in U.S. education policy. But…

River in the Sea: Tina Boscha’s novel now available as an e-book

Tina Boscha, instructor of composition in the University of Oregon Department of English, recently took matters into her own hands and self-published her novel as an e-book. “A few years back, I was a very fortunate recipient of a CSWS…

Identity Complex—a groundbreaking new book by Michael Hames-García

Identity Complex: Making the Case for Multiplicity Michael Hames-García, Professor, University of Oregon Department of Ethnic Studies University of Minnesota Press (August 2011) From the publisher: “Grounded in both theoretical and political practices—in the lived realities of people’s experience—Identity Complex…