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Credit: Salzburg Global Seminar/Ela Grieshaber
October 11 to 16, 2014
One of the fundamental responsibilities of higher education is to provide open and equal opportunities for students to learn, succeed, and positively contribute to their local, national, and global societies. Great strides are being made in increasing educational access, retention completion, and success, yet there is still work to be done particularly for students from disadvantaged or marginalized groups. Unprecedented shifts in migration patterns are causing demographic changes around the world. Additionally, governments, societies, and higher education institutions are increasingly recognizing the need and responsibility to create legal and institutional frameworks for providing more and better opportunities for people from historically marginalized groups to gain access and achieve success at the university level.
From South Africa’s “Historically Disadvantaged Institutions,” to Brazil’s “Law of Social Quotas,” and a long tradition of “Minority Serving Institutions” in the United States, just to name a few, higher education institutions committed to providing educational opportunities for local communities marginalized along ethnic, racial, religious or other lines can be found on every continent. What’s more, in light of shifting demographics and the growing focus on educational opportunity and access, increasing numbers of colleges and universities will be serving students from marginalized groups. For too long, institutions serving students at the margins have operated in a vacuum, failing to collaborate across institutional types and across nations. This Salzburg session will bring together leaders from institutions serving marginalized populations with policy makers and researchers to develop a platform for finding solutions to these institutions’ common challenges and capitalizing on their strengths.
This program is being designed and implemented in partnership with the recently launched Center for Minority Serving Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education and with Educational Testing Service. From 2010 to 2012, Salzburg Global and Educational Testing Service collaborated on a series of sessions on “Optimizing Talent: Closing Educational and Social Mobility Gaps Worldwide.”
U.S. Congressman Thomas Massie speaking with attendees at the Free & Equal Elections Presidential Debate at the 2024 FreedomFest at Caesars Forum Conference Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Equal Pay Day Fachtagung am 19. Oktober 2016 im BMFSFJ in Berlin. Fotografien: (c) Frank Nürnberger. www.franknuernberger.de - 0172.1013456.
More than 200 lawyers, judges, and others representing the legal profession in Maryland gathered on June 2, 2015, at Camden Yards in downtown Baltimore for the Equal Justice Council’s 18th Annual Awards and Recognition Breakfast to celebrate those law firms and members of the bar whose donations help drive Maryland Legal Aid in its ongoing mission to provide free civil legal services to low-income Marylanders. This year Equal Justice Council Honorees include:
- ANDREW JAY GRAHAM and BENJAMIN ROSENBERG, Exemplars of Equal Justice
- PAUL M. NUSSBAUM, Champion of Justice
- GOODELL DeVRIES and SAUL EWING LLP, Pacesetters
- DLA PIPER and VENABLE LLP, Trailblazers
- SAYRA MEYERHOFF, Executive Director’s Award
Created in 1997, the Equal Justice Council serves as the fundraising arm of the Maryland Legal Aid Bureau, securing donations from private attorneys across the state in support of Legal Aid’s mission to provide free civil legal assistance to low-income state residents.
PICTURED (left to right): Guest speaker Roy L. Austin, Jr., Director of the Office of Urban Affairs, Justice, and Opportunity and Member of the White House Domestic Policy Council; Martin S. Himeles, Jr., Co-Chair, Equal Justice Council; Lee H. Ogburn; Warren S. Oliveri, Jr., President, Maryland Legal Aid Board of Directors; Maryland Legal Aid Executive Director Wilhelm H. Joseph, Jr.
I formerly lived in a house with two other roommates, both boys, who I happened to be friends with for a number of years. Three other friends, all girls, from the same group in high school also got a house together in Los Angeles. When I was told of the comparison between the two households, I found it to be a good idea for a series. Destiny is Michael, Sara is Albert and Jamie is me.
I presented the three of them with the notion that they are us and that they, to the best of their abilities, were to present their interpretations of us in dress, pose and place, all in the context of their own house.
Eyewitness
Christianity and bloodshed on the Isle of Wight, 686
The Isle of Wight was known to the Romans as Vectis, from which its modern name is derived. After the fall of Roman Britain, the island was invaded by the pagan Jutes.
Two-hundred years later, however, the Christian Saxons of Wessex took possession, bringing religion and the sword in equal measure.
The Northumbrian scholar and monk Bede (673 - 735) never travelled as far south as the Isle of Wight, but made great efforts in his history of England to check his facts and sources.
This account is from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England.
Christianity arrives on the Isle of Wight, 686AD
CHAP. XVI. How the Isle of Wight received Christian inhabitants, and two royal youths of that island were killed immediately after Baptism. [686 AD] .
After Caedwalla had obtained possession of the kingdom of the Gewissae [later Wessex], he took also the Isle of Wight, which till then was entirely given over to idolatry, and by merciless slaughter endeavoured to destroy all the inhabitants thereof, and to place in their stead people from his own province; binding himself by a vow, though it is said that he was not yet regenerated in Christ, to give the fourth part of the land and of the spoil to the Lord, if he took the island. He fulfilled this vow by giving the same for the service of the Lord to Bishop Wilfrid, who happened at the time to have come thither from his own people. The measure of that island, according to the computation of the English, is of twelve hundred families, wherefore an estate of three hundred families was given to the Bishop. The part which he received, he committed to one of his clerks called Bernwin, who was his sister's son, assigning to him a priest, whose name was Hiddila, to administer the Word and layer of life to all that would be saved.
Here I think it ought not to be omitted that, as the first fruits of those of that island who believed and were saved, two royal boys, brothers to Arwald, king of the island, were crowned with the special grace of God. For when the enemy approached, they made their escape out of the island, and crossed over into the neighbouring province of the Jutes. Coming to the place called At the Stone, they thought to be concealed from the victorious king, but they were betrayed and ordered to be killed. This being made known to a certain abbot and priest, whose name was Cynibert, who had a monastery not far from there, at a place called Hreutford, [Redbridge] that is, the Ford of Reeds, he came to the king, who then lay in concealment in those parts to be cured of the wounds which he had received whilst he was fighting in the Isle of Wight, and begged of him, that if the boys must needs be killed, he might be allowed first to instruct them in the mysteries of the Christian faith. The king consented, and the bishop having taught them the Word of truth, and cleansed them in the font of salvation, assured to them their entrance into the kingdom of Heaven . Then the executioner came, and they joyfully underwent the temporal death, through which they did not doubt they were to pass to the life of the soul, which is everlasting. Thus, after this manner, when all the provinces of Britain had received the faith of Christ, the Isle of Wight also received the same; yet because it was suffering under the affliction of foreign subjection, no man there received the office or see of a bishop, before Daniel, who is now bishop of the West Saxons .
The island is situated opposite the borders of the South Saxons and the Gewissae, being separated from it by a sea, three miles wide, which is called Solvente [the Solent ]. In this sea, the two tides of the ocean, which break upon Britain all round its coasts from the boundless northern ocean, daily meet in conflict beyond the mouth of the river Homelea [The Hamble], which runs into the aforesaid sea, through the lands of the Jutes, belonging to the country of the Gewissae; and after this struggle of the tides, they fall back and return into the ocean whence they come.
Source: Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England, a revised translation with introduction, life and notes by A M Sellar (George Bell and Sons, 1907).
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