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The Chronicle of Higher Education

Keith Whitfield, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs and a professor of psychology at Wayne State University, will become president of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas on August 24. He will be the university’s first Black president.

The 19th

At a school board meeting in Phoenix earlier this month, parent after parent got up to speak, letting the tensions of a year of uncertainty spill out inside a musty auditorium at the Queen Creek Unified School District.

Las Vegas Sun

As I complete my first full week as president of UNLV, I’ve had the privilege of hearing from many students, faculty, staff and community members who have shared kind words of support as I start my new journey.

This is Reno

The Nevada State Health Response team reported the first case of COVID-19 reinfection in the country during a press conference Friday afternoon.

Las Vegas Sun

Nevada is reporting 609 additional coronavirus cases and 15 deaths.

Self

A post-quarantine pandemic reunion with your partner isn’t always as sweet as you’d imagine. After weeks or months of social distancing in separate places, the coronavirus pandemic still remains. This means that every interaction comes with a somewhat awkward protocol. Instead of jumping into each other’s arms, you might open your door and carefully back out of a tiny hallway to let your lover into your home. You might watch as they take off their mask and wait patiently for them to wash their hands for 20 seconds—humming “Happy Birthday” to yourself. Then, you smile at each other, or, your heart starts pounding so hard that you don’t know what to do.

Parents Magazine

As the U.S. faces a reckoning on racial injustice, people from coast to coast are taking to the streets to protest the killing and injury of unarmed Black people at the hands of police officers. This surge of activism has ignited calls for government to rethink law enforcement in our country. In turn, "defund the police" has quickly become a hot button phrase.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Nevada recorded 554 new cases of COVID-19 and 21 additional deaths over the preceding day, according to data posted by the state on Thursday.

Newswise

Kendra Gage describes implicit bias as the stories we make up about people before we get to know them. It’s a practical and personal definition from an historian who studies what some consider an unlikely, even unpopular, topic for a white professor — the civil rights movement.

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