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14 / Not Just Test Scores: A New Model for Public Education “It’s a very frustrating time to be in education because it seems like policies are being driven by external considerations, with professional educators left out of the loop. We’re trying to develop leaders who can lead in eff ective ways, and I think we’re doing a pretty good job of that.”


18 / Enough’s Enough “Everybody has worth, and we should help get that worth out. Discrimination gets in the way. Discrimination is formed in the fi elds of ignorance.”


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21 / Humor, Hope and Health Care “One way to raise the standard of health care in a country is to educate nurses. In Bangladesh, many people are poor— but poverty doesn’t equal stupidity. Poverty equals poverty. When you can build a school of nursing and educate a nurse, you are providing health care for thousands of people.”


DEPARTMENTS 4 / Editor’s Note 5 / From the President


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6 – 13 / Around Campus Science Complex addition is unveiled / Baseball team makes a diff erence as Big Brothers / Historic Preservation students help battle site earn national park status / A conversation with diversity expert Reggie Barnes


28 – 43 / Class Notes Teaching Excellence Awards / Volleyball player follows in mother’s footsteps / “Marathon Man” takes up running at age 70


44-45 / Photo Gallery 40 Cover Illustration by Stacy Innerst


24 / Worldly View Two Eastern Michigan University graduates say they spent the best year of their lives studying abroad as Fulbright scholars. These life-changing international experiences were 57 years apart.


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