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Retracing the Route of Freedom: Notre Dame group rides a bus to civil rights landmarks across the South

Published: May 04, 2020

Goose pimples broke out on a student’s skin in the pitch-black cellar of a Tennessee stop on the Underground Railroad. A visceral sadness seeped into a faculty member in the Memphis hotel room where Martin Luther King was shot on the balcony. The physical presence of the souls of black leaders overwhelmed…

Women’s judiciary panel and 19th Amendment exhibit to be held at ND Law School

Published: January 13, 2020

Denise Wager

Notre Dame Law School will host a panel discussion, How Women Have Shaped the Judiciary, to commemorate the 19th Amendment centennial of women’s right to vote on Friday, January 24 at 4 p.m. in McCartan Courtroom.

English as a New Language (ENL) classes for staff

Published: January 01, 2020

Anna McKeever

Improve your written and spoken English with free English as a New Language (ENL) classes for Notre Dame staff. Courses are taught on Notre Dame’s campus by South Bend Community School Corporation instructors.

Notre Dame leaders to reduce their salaries to support a Student Emergency Relief Fund

Published: May 04, 2020

Paul Browne

The savings will be deposited in a special Student Emergency Relief Fund, composed of senior employee donations and other private benefaction. It has been established to assist deserving students whose families face unemployment and other hardships stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.

Notre Dame’s wide-ranging Irish studies programming to expand

Published: January 07, 2020

Dennis Brown

The University will expand its study of the Irish with the creation of a center to study modern Ireland, made possible by a leadership gift from Brian and Deidre Clingen.

Amid coronavirus, story time moves online for Robinson Center youth

Published: May 01, 2020

Erin Blasko

Established in 2011, the RCLC’s English as a new language (ENL) preschool program is a companion to its adult ENL program, exposing the children of students in that program to music, literature, computers, art and outdoor play on a daily basis.

I am ND: Paloma Garcia-Lopez

Published: January 06, 2020

Christina Clark, for NDWorks

Paloma Garcia-Lopez partners with students, manages the Institute for Latino Studies merit scholarship and works with faculty to increase the understanding of Latinos as part of the social fabric of America.

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