EN 123: College Composition

The article offers information on effectiveness of test optional policies for universities enrolling for standardized testing. Topics discussed include information on decline in underrepresented minority students enrollment; impact on impact student diversity from test optional policies; and underscore of college entrance exams like the Standard Assessment Tasks by minority students.

Climate change and environmental problems will force or induce millions of people to migrate.

The author reflects on transnationalism and citizenship. She talks about her own transnational citizenship with Great Britain, New Zealand, and Sierra Leone and comments how her Sierra Leona passport was temporarily withdrawn in the early 1970s by the autocratic government and restored after the civil war in Sierra Leone. She mentions how nationality is not high on the list of answering someone how they identify themselves. She considers how transnationalism is changing in the 21st century.

How do students from privileged communities respond to educational efforts encouraging them to become justice-oriented citizens?

David Ramsay, a South Carolina congressman and early theorist of US citizenship, believed that American citizens "transmitted" their citizenship to their children "by inheritance." Before long, judges and legislators had extended this potent principle of hereditary citizenship to include any white person born to US citizens abroad and to white people born to noncitizens on American soil. Baltimore was a center of these efforts by free African Americans to assert their inborn right to US citizenship, and Jones focuses her narrative on their story.