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Faculty Opportunity Fund Congrats to Wilkinson Faculty Recipients

June 16, 2020 by | News

Congratulations to the four faculty opportunity award recipients from Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences! Chapman University’s Faculty Opportunity Fund is a competitive merit-based internal funding opportunity for faculty to apply for up to $15,000 to conduct research or creative activity. These projects are intended to support Chapman University faculty in the development

#BlackoutTuesday An Analysis of the Hashtag

June 9, 2020 by Muhammad Karkoutli | News

By Muhammad Karkoutli (’20), Babbie Center Research Fellow On Tuesday, June 2, you may have noticed that social media was awash with black squares tagged with the hashtag #BlackoutTuesday – a response to the brutal murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th. Although these black squares expressed a range of messages, the #BlackoutTuesday

Letter from the Dean of Wilkinson College June 4, 2020

June 4, 2020 by | News

Exhausted, frustrated, heart-broken, angry – these were the feelings expressed by Chapman students, staff, and faculty who have gathered over the past week to collectively grieve the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbrey, and Breonna Taylor. The rise of white supremacy, ongoing police brutality, Covid-19, systemic institutionalized racism, black and brown lives lost – racial injustice

Folklore in the Digital Imagination Sam Risak Wins Graduate Student Research Showcase Award

May 22, 2020 by | Wilkinson College

In 2019, “the Momo Challenge,” swept the internet.  The viral hoax and internet urban legend was shared on messaging services like WhatsApp, goading children and adolescents  into acts of extreme violence and horror. Authorities worldwide have not confirmed that any physical harm resulted, yet still school administrations on several continents have issued warnings about the

Faculty Books: Documenting the World A Q&A with Professor Tom Zoellner

May 22, 2020 by | News

The dream of being a journalist came true for Professor Tom Zoellner (English), who wrote for a succession of daily newspapers across the country before coming to Chapman University. “It was a terrific career for about ten years until the Internet took its toll, the zest started going out of the business, and newspapers shrank

Career Corner Why the Liberal Arts Matter More Than Ever

May 21, 2020 by | Wilkinson College

What difference can liberal arts make during this unprecedented global pandemic? Liberal arts are about intellectual freedom and creative, critical, and collaborative inquiry. While the class of 2020 is graduating, and most thought they were entering one of the best job markets, there are many questions and thoughts about the liberal arts jobs that they

Visualizing Wilkinson Through Art Escalette Collection's New Plan

May 20, 2020 by | News

As a museum without walls, the Escalette Collection of Art is an expert at turning hallways into art galleries. Wilkinson College and the Escalette Collection are excited to announce plans for a new initiative to develop college-relevant art installations for Roosevelt Hall and Smith Hall – the buildings which house the Dean’s suite and humanities

Wilkinson Students Shine 12th Annual Campus Leadership Awards Announced

May 20, 2020 by | Events

To cap off the spring 2020 semester, the Office of Student Engagement held an extraordinary version of the annual Campus Leadership Awards. Over the course of an hour, the @lifeatcu Instagram account built suspense by slowly releasing videos of Dean of Students Jerry Price revealing the award recipients. It had members of the entire Chapman

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