Congratulations to the Class of 2023!

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Ed Studies class of '23

On March 24, eight senior Education Studies majors spoke about their research to an audience of more than fifty students, faculty and staff gathered in the Center for Humanistic Inquiry. This two-hour symposium, a requirment for completion of the major, included the following presentations: 

August Bates: Disability in the Elite Liberal Arts College Environment: Challenges and Recommendations for Improvement at Amherst College

Lucheyla Celestino: Impacts of College Level Language Learning Environments: An Examination of How Heritage Speakers and Second Language Learners Experience Spanish at Amherst College and Beyond

E. J. Collins: To Be Young, Conscious, and Black in North Carolina: The Decline of Institutions of Radical Education and the Rise of Neoliberalism in Public Education (1960-1980)

Avery Flynn: Mademoiselle Flynn: A Non-native French Language Teacher, Learner, and Everything in Between

Eugene Lee: The Legacy of Restrictive Language Policies: Question 2

Tessa Levenstein: Ray Fadden and the Akwesasne Mohawk Counselor Organization: How One Youth Organization Inspired a Generation of Indigenous Activism

Masahiro Nishikawa: A Still-alive Tradition of Black Radical Thinking: How Charter Schools Help Counter Neoliberal Ideology

Joy Won: Florence Nightingale: (Data) Feminist?