The entire purpose of the society was to honor Miccosukee culture and preserve it while honoring the greatest leaders and change-makers in our academic community. Calling the society’s traditions “exoticizing of native culture” and racist is a complete denial of concrete fact.

At the time, I felt like my Blackness and my queerness couldn’t exist in the same space on campus.

During our election time, I encourage you all to be open-minded, be willing to hear perspectives, and think critically about what is being said and why.

Although this time of year is important to your academic career, I wanted to take a moment to remind everyone to take care of themselves and those around them.

There is very little support from the university when it comes to online classes.

We urge Representative Shalala to introduce to Congress new legislation to support global health system strengthening.

We live a precarious financial existence which forces us to supplement our income with other work or to depend on a spouse, parent or sibling throughout our career.

I was a young girl when I endured my abortion. That sentence is still hard for me to swallow. Although, I have healed from this traumatic experience over time, I am on a journey of life-long healing.

In 1964, nearly 1,500 volunteers— primarily university students— engaged in a novel campaign to bring democratic government to Mississippi. Their goal was to help black residents of the state exercise a basic right of citizenship: the vote. The campaign was known as “Freedom Summer,” or the “Mississippi Summer Project.”

30% of Americans leave their prescriptions unfilled because they are just too expensive. Meanwhile, pharmaceutical companies maintain the highest profits of any industry nationwide.