{"id":15320,"date":"2024-10-21T14:21:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T18:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/?p=15320"},"modified":"2024-10-21T14:21:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T18:21:31","slug":"we-are-our-ancestors-wildest-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/we-are-our-ancestors-wildest-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We are our ancestors\u2019 wildest dreams\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Constance Pruitt, assistant professor of political science and international affairs at UMES.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

When Dr. Constance Pruitt<\/strong> joined the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in August as an assistant professor of political science and international affairs in the Department of Social Sciences, the two-time Howard University graduate came on a mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere were a few reasons why I absolutely wanted to join the Hawk family,\u201d said Pruitt, who brings her Howard bachelor\u2019s and doctoral degrees along with teaching experience from several institutions including, James Madison University, Trinity Washington University, and her alma mater. \u201cOne is the fact that I really loved my experience as an HBCU alum myself and I wanted to be back at a historically Black college and university give back to the community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This semester, Pruitt will teach introductory classes on American government and logic. The logic class will focus on how students can use the Socratic method to make sound arguments and apply them to the world of politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With much of the student population eligible to vote in their first-ever general election this November, Pruitt said she is looking forward to helping them understand the importance of their right to vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne thing I\u2019d like the students to know is that we are literally our ancestors\u2019 wildest dreams,\u201d she said. \u201cSo, to take all of the effort that they have put into voting and just to kind of discard it, that’s a huge disservice to our community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of Pruitt\u2019s goals at UMES is to bring in more information about politics to the campus and its impact on every aspect of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt doesn’t matter what students are studying,\u201d she said. \u201cPolitics is everywhere, and I want to make sure that, at least for my students and students on campus, even if they don’t take classes from me, that they are able to make well-informed political decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Dr. Constance Pruitt joined the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in August as an assistant professor of political science and international affairs in the Department of Social Sciences, the two-time Howard University graduate came on a mission. \u201cThere were a few reasons why I absolutely wanted to join the Hawk family,\u201d said Pruitt, who…Read more \u2018We are our ancestors\u2019 wildest dreams\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1559,"featured_media":15321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-15320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15320"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=15320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}