Description: Student Stories of Inclusion and STEM Tutorial Engineering Workshop of Dr. Janice Marie Collins
The United States prides itself on being a home for people from all backgrounds. That means cultural ideas from all over the world are coming together in a country with its own racial history. See our more on racism in America here.
The African-American struggle for both inclusiveness and representation at the University of Illinois has a long-running background, dating back prior to the start of Project 500—a public demand to admit more Afric an-American and Latino students into the university.
An inspirational video Project 500 Then and Now , created by other UIUC students, explicitly shows in what ways this is true.