What happens when students form their own inclusive groups based on race or gender or learning ability? Alumna Yasmeen Elayyan shares her strategies to address student-caused school segregation.
When alumna Amani Ghusein asks her 4th graders to draw a picture of a scientist, she receives comic-like mad scientists. Her challenge: help her Latino students see themselves as Latino scientists.
Alumna Alexis Cullerton researched literacy access and needs of undocumented unaccompanied children detained in the United States and found a judicial system failing children.
The College's David Stovall says the school-to-prison pipeline is bolstered by school discipline policies that treat Black and Latino students as perpetrators incapable of solving problems.
Evelyn Gachuz thought math wasn't for her as a youngster. Her volunteer work with young Latinas encouraging their success in math earned her the UIC Chancellor's Student Service Award.
Ramon Gutierrez is the College's newest 100 Hour Undergraduate Research Initiative awardee, studying strategies to build culturally relevant science instruction.
Alumna Gabrielle Lyon created a non-profit providing access to STEM education for Black and Latino teens, including searching for dinosaur fossils in Montana and investigating the wonders of Yellowstone.