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  • Students in the News: Brian Fleurantin

    Brian Fleurantin is not about to stop talking. The URB MA graduate candidate has recently been involved in a number of protests and community actions against his employer, Housing Works, which has been accused of unfair labor practices. Along the way, Brian has been quoted in news articles and interviewed on WBAI radio. Here’s Brian in his own words:…

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  • JEFFERY SUTTLES MAKES MUSIC FOR A MOVEMENT

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      Graduate student. Special education teacher. Digital humanities specialist. Writer. Poet. Musician. Indie artist. Those are only some of the myriad vocations of Jeffery Collin Suttles. To call him enterprising would be an understatement. A candidate for the M.A. in Urban Studies at SLU this semester, Jeffery found new inspiration for his art in a…

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  • News from the SLU Community September 2020

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    For the second year in a row, Dean Gregory Mantsios has been named to City & State New York’s annual “Labor Power 100” list, which recognizes the most influential figures—activists, educators, community leaders and elected officials—in New York labor: Dean Mantsios was specifically lauded for having spent decades building programs in labor studies, which culminated in our School! In addition to…

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  • SLU Student Spotlight: Sima Petilli, LEAP to Teacher

    SLU Student Spotlight: Sima Petilli, LEAP to Teacher

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    Sima Petilli, a special-needs educator and participant in SLU’s LEAP-to-Teacher program who recently earned her master’s degree at Lehman College, was not going to let anything stand in her way of becoming a certified teacher – not even the sudden, mid-semester transition to working, studying, and full-time parenting from home in response to COVID-19, all…

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