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Putting the “act” in activist

By Benji Cohen , Jonathan D. Cohen and Cecilia Marquez | October 22, 2014

Just because the University’s mission statement stresses its commitment to diversity, the institution does not get a free pass from actively fostering and financing a racially and socioeconomically diverse student body.

COHEN: Celebrating mediocrity

By Benji Cohen | September 19, 2013

On September 13, UVA Today ran a laudatory article about U.Va.’s place as a “top 10” Teach for America (TFA) corps contributor. The celebratory article gave me pause, as it continued to stoke the heroic one-dimensional narrative of TFA as the cure-all to urban public education in the United States. TFA is not a solution and U.Va. should exercise caution when trumpeting a program that has had such mediocre results.

Benji Cohen

Putting the “act” in activist

COHEN: Celebrating mediocrity

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