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Black alumni reflect on how Ohio State prepared them for success

Ohio State University alumni who are now educators themselves returned to the Columbus campus Sept. 30-Oct. 1 for the College of Education and Human Ecology’s (EHE) Black Alumni Reunion weekend.

During a Sept. 30 panel discussion at the Faculty Club, alumni who are professors and administrators at public school systems and institutions of higher learning around the country shared how attending Ohio State prepared them for career success. They also spoke about how they promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in education.

Ohio State professor curates ‘Beyond Guilt’ exhibition

As she worked on the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center’s “Beyond Guilt” exhibition, curator Jennifer Suchland came to understand multiple meanings for the title.

The first, said Suchland, also an associate professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University, is a legal interpretation. It refers to the lawyers, the judges and the parole boards, all of whom need to see beyond an individual’s guilt to ensure excessive punishment – which includes over-sentencing and over-punishment – does not occur.