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Ciara Gazaway and [No Name Given] [No Name Given]
Recorded
March 29, 2022
Archived
March 29, 2022
52:50 minutes
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Id:
ddv001535
Description
One Small Step conversation partners Ciara Gazaway (25) and [No Name Given] [No Name Given] (33) discuss higher education, equity, and state government influence at the University of Tennessee.Subject Log / Time Code
(track 1) Ciara (C) and Anonymous Participant (AP) share why they wanted to participate in One Small Step.
AP shares his experiences in school and academia, and how the challenges he experienced have shaped him as a student and instructor.
C shares how she works to promote equity, inclusion, and justice in the higher education system.
C and AP share who their biggest influences are, with C sharing how her mother shaped her, and AP remembering a math professor who sparked his interest in STEM.
C says her personal political values are centered on equity and removing barriers, and AP says he has socially conservative values and that he most closely politically aligns with anarchism.
C shares how state funding for the University of Tennessee means there’s more government oversight of what happens at the university. She says that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices have been defunded by state legislators.
C and AP talk about the baseball fence meme that shows the difference between equality and equity.
AP wonders why college campuses have become so focused on conversations about DEI.
(track 2) C asks what AP’s ideal society would look like.
AP shares that he has voted in the past, but normally doesn’t.
Participants
- Ciara Gazaway
- [No Name Given] [No Name Given]