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Why Mentors Matter

Professor Debi Jenkins’s Faculty Speaker Series presentation focuses on fostering diversity in the workplace      Most large workplaces today have made some efforts toward encouraging diversity: a training session here, an “awareness day” there. But, as Early Childhood Education and Psychology professor Debi Jenkins argued passionately in her winter quarter Faculty Speaker Series presentation,…

Habari Gani? (What’s Happening?)

Prof. Debi Jenkins

Winter quarter Faculty Speaker Series focuses on encouraging diversity in the workforce      In Swahili, the phrase “Habari gani?” means “What’s happening?” It was a question asked by village elders to younger members of the community as a way to gauge how they were doing. The habari gani menta (literally, “the person who asks,…

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