Asian Americans far from alone in demanding change. PNW AAUP chapter condemns the Keon administration’s “top-down, non-inclusive approach to university governance” and longstanding “insensitivity to diverse cultures within the PNW community.” These glaring absences suggest systemic defi ...
AAASE In a time when the Asian Americans and Pacific Islander community is still healing from the past and continued Asian hate crimes, Chancellor Thomas Keon used a made-up sound as the Asian version of pronunciation to mock the language and Asian people, https://www.nbcnews.com/video/chan ...
December 23, 2022 An Open Letter to the Purdue University Board of Trustees This is in response to your recent public statement that said: “Each member of the Purdue Board of Trustees has had the opportunity to review the entirety of the Dec. 10 ...
Purdue Trustees just declared that Keon is their "Proud Boy" ! Between MLK's dream and Keon's job, Purdue Trustees had no problem to choose the latter. "Leaders should absolutely be held to a very high standard." Do these Trustees know that ? McW wrote a shallow piece! ...
Column: Graduation or commencement? Why the PNW chancellor's words matterBy XIANG ZHOU Contributor As a former international student and English-as-a-second-language speaker, I remember my confusion about the English language. Why use a word that means the beginning of something to ...
Illustration by Sam Whitney/The New York Times; photograph by Jeffrey Coolidge, via Getty Images There would seem to be a sincere commitment across America these days to try to listen to one another across divides. To engage nuance rather than pretending that everything is, as it were, bl ...