Crystal Borde posted this on April 5th, 2010
From coverage of Cornell University’s response to six students’ deaths by suicide to reports of entertainer Marie Osmond’s teenage son’s death by suicide, recently reporters are writing and talking a lot about suicide.
While it’s great that news coverage is driving public dialogue about this often taboo topic, the news coverage does not utilize linguistically competent [...]
Crystal Borde posted this on January 29th, 2010
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Understanding how best to communicate with and support refugee communities living in the United States can be a daunting challenge. In 2008, more than 60,000 refugees immigrated to the United States from all around the world. For refugee families, their arrival in America is not the end of their journey, [...]
Brenda Foster posted this on January 25th, 2010
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The Washington Post reports that 20 percent of people may not participate in the 2010 census, even though they are legally obligated to do so. According to a new poll from the Pew Research Center, many respondents said they are too busy or uninterested to fill out [...]