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Academic Integration of Career Readiness

Students need to be able to connect what they've learned in the classroom to their future careers. Calling out things you're already doing in the classroom -- such as communication, teamwork, and creative problem-solving -- and relating them to career readiness can help.
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Research Made the Difference: Marina Crowder

First Generation faculty member and UC Davis alumna Marina Crowder recalls her experiences as a first gen college student. The video is part of the FirstGen First Year Seminars series, produced to help college faculty connect with first gen students.
Julie Sze is a professor in and chair of the department of American Studies at UC Davis, and is the founding director of the Environmental Justice Project for UC Davis’ John Muir Institute for the Environment. Her research investigates environmental justice and environmental inequality; culture and environment; race, gender and power; and urban/community health and activism.

Immigrant Families, American Dreams - Julie Sze

 

JULIE SZE grew up in New York City’s Chinatown, where her father worked in the restaurant industry after emigrating from China. She attended a “striving immigrant school” oriented toward success in math and science, and was expected to go to college in preparation for a professional career. “This is very typical for a working class Asian immigrant family– it’s tied to the narrative of the American dream.”

Milmon Harrison is Senior Lecturer in African American and African Studies and Associate Dean for the Division of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies. He earned his BA in Sociology from UC Davis in 1994 with highest honors and a departmental citation. His research and teaching interests include sociology of religion; the Black church in America; American race/ethnic relations; social stratification; and the representation of African Americans in popular culture.

Milmon Harrison

FROM THE principal’s office to a successful dance career to a seven-year college journey, Milmon Harrison’s path to being a professor was full of the unexpected. A New Orleans native, he grew up in Hunter’s Point and the Haight-Ashbury District of San Francisco before moving to Stockton and attending middle and high school in Lodi. “That I would end up being a professor is so weird to me because even though I was a smart kid, I didn’t always do well in school. I was easily bored and would always talk to my friends.

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