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Making My Mark,
Year One
Murali Balaji writes about his first year as an assistant professor at a small HBCU and how his background as an Indian-American impacts his interactions with students.
Understanding Identity Politics in a Classroom
When I taught at Penn State and Temple universities, my classrooms were mostly White save for a handful of Black and Brown faces.The toughest thing for me to come to grips with was the fact that I was a person of color teaching students who had rarely interacted with minority
Graduate School A Viable Option For HBCU Students
In June, I became the first member of my family to receive a Ph.D.To clarify, I have aunts and uncles with Ph.D’s, but I was the first to be educated entirely in the United States. In the decade or so since I received my undergraduate degree, I
Learning When to Flip the Code Switch
When I was a teenager, I struggled to fit in with my peers because I always felt like an outsider in a society defined by a Black-White paradigm.I was uncomfortable in my own skin until I was 20 or 21, when I realized that being an Indian-American who could mix
Professor, Academic Adviser, Personal Counselor
One of the biggest challenges I've faced since coming to Lincoln has been the added task of advising students. Many large universities have full-time advisers available within departments while others have advisers who stick with a student for the duration of their college careers. Not so at Lincoln,
Cultivating Cultural Curiosity
I took Monday off to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. This was the first time in my teaching career that there wasn't a campus community that observed Diwali, which has different meanings for followers of Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism and Buddhism. Diwali is celebrated according to the lunar
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Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at the Tribal Nations Conference
Duncan addresses reasons why students struggle and proposes ways to help Native American students, starting at the preschool level.