What We Read in June 2020

July 7, 2020 | News

Nearly every day, Rosov Consulting team members share articles and blogs of interest on one of our many Slack channels, #RosovReads. We find some of these articles to be so insightful, informative, or even surprising that we want to share them more broadly to help our colleagues and partners. Enjoy some of June’s #RosovReads.

Creating Community in a COVID-19 World
Inside Higher Ed covers how Hillel is finding alternative ways to support students and foster a sense of community despite restrictions on large gatherings and disparate fall reopening plans among colleges.

The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
The Stanford Social Innovation Review has a piece on how “professionalism” has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices, often privileging the values of white and Western employees and leave behind people of color.

A Jewish camp is opening — on the video game Minecraft
JTA features how a Camp Ramah in Canada staffer programmed the camp’s entire campus on the video game Minecraft and has invited campers to “visit” the virtual camp and is leading games on the site.

 

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