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When Denise Isaac, a Panama-born meteorologist for Miami’s Telemundo 51, moved to the United States for college, she faced an unexpected challenge mingling with her new peers. “When I first got here, people just automatically thought I was a black African-American,” Isaac said as a panelist during an #EIJ15 Saturday session, Off-Color: Navigating Race and Ethnicity as …
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https://youtu.be/Xj9or0YvBFs A gold-painted statue of the Greek goddess Hebe guards the window-lit corridor of the Athens City Water Treatment Plant. “We saved her,” plant manager Shawn Beasley said with a smile, recounting the story of how one worker salvaged the broken pieces of this cupbearing goddess and plastered her back together, entrusting her to the …
Editor’s note: This is the second story in a two-part series about how FERPA affects student privacy and how Ohio University maintains FERPA-protected documents. In an age of electronic security breaches, leaks and hacks, Ohio University has to be careful to protect the information it keeps about students. That information includes social security numbers, grades …
Editor’s note: This is the first story in a two-part series about how FERPA affects student privacy and how Ohio University maintains FERPA-protected documents. The same federal law that’s used to protect students’ private information has also been accused of concealing questionable records from the public eye. The creation of the Family Educational Rights and …
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