by Dana Harris | Apr 19, 2019 | Blog, THOUGHTS FROM THE TEAM
by Amy Curran, Oklahoma Executive Director The United States faces a challenge to fill workforce development gaps as a result of the shift from the industrial age to the knowledge age. The need for a post-secondary degree or certification has become more important...
by Dana Harris | Apr 4, 2019 | Blog, THOUGHTS FROM THE TEAM
by Hannah Bigbee a Generation Citizen’s Student Leadership Board member Like many college campuses, the University of Oklahoma is seen as its own community by the students. Many students live, work, attend classes, and eat all of their meals while on campus. Because...
by Dana Harris | Mar 13, 2019 | Blog, THOUGHTS FROM THE TEAM
By Ishrat Jahan, Student at Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science My name is Ishrat Jahan and I am a Junior at Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women in Brooklyn, New York. In our Generation Citizen class, my classmates and I chose...
by Dana Harris | Feb 28, 2019 | Blog, THOUGHTS FROM THE TEAM
By Elizabeth Sidler, Oklahoma Senior Program Associate Driving south on Old Highway 81 toward Ninnekah, Oklahoma, my colleague and I pass rolling hills, retention ponds, phone line maintenance, and cows. Just a few miles north is a Walmart and a Chinese...
by Dana Harris | Feb 21, 2019 | Blog, THOUGHTS FROM THE TEAM, Uncategorized
by Nivetha Nagarajan, Development Associate I was seven years old, in my second grade class, and we were voting on which book to read as a complement to our unit on democracy, citizenship, and American identity. I abstained from voting because I already knew I wasn’t...
by Bandon Klugman | Feb 7, 2019 | Blog, THOUGHTS FROM THE TEAM
By Dana Harris, Advocacy Director There are few things that we, as an American population, nearly universally agree on. Yet, one of them is that civics education is a good thing. Prior to the 2016 elections, most people would call it an important subject but would...
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