{"id":11923,"date":"2020-07-30T16:33:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T16:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11923"},"modified":"2020-07-30T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T16:33:08","slug":"texas-college-offers-new-curriculum-for-social-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11923","title":{"rendered":"Texas college offers new curriculum for social change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Some education experts anticipate that more college and university students will consider learning online as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/em><\/strong> Photo: jagritparajuli99\/Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By ROZ BROWN
<\/strong>Texas News Service<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DALLAS — The death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis two months ago has accelerated the launch of a new learning program by a school in Dallas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Urban Scholars Program was in the works at Paul Quinn College<\/a>, but became more urgent with Floyd’s death, as the historically Black college addresses challenges facing urban communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ben Nelson, CEO and founder Minerva Project, the company that helped design the curriculum, says many high achieving students now have a keen sense of purpose — and they want college to provide them with tools to help them change society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This country needs more than just changing names on football teams and maple syrup, and much more about fixing the problems that we face,” Nelson states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to educational requirements, a big component of the Urban Scholars Program is employment — with students expected to work 15 to 20 hours a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 550 students attend Paul Quinn College each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students who enroll in the program will study how to close the multi-generational wealth gap, end the prison-industrial complex, or provide equitable and affordable health care to all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nelson says many students don’t want four years of lecture halls — and instead, want to earn a degree that engages them in tackling real world problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“To solve, or help ameliorate, some of the great disparities that our society faces around wealth, access to health care, around treatment by the criminal justice system,” he states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nelson say the Urban Scholars Program will offer a fully online 36-month undergraduate degree in business administration and public policy designed to educate a “new generation of change-makers.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Support for this reporting was made possible by Lumina Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By ROZ BROWNTexas News Service DALLAS — The death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis two months ago has accelerated the launch of a new learning program by a school in Dallas. The Urban Scholars Program was in the works at Paul Quinn College, but became more urgent with Floyd’s death, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11924,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11923\/revisions\/11924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}