Faculty members who choose to teach Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) courses often do not receive acknowledgment for their conscious and compassionate choice to support students by providing course materials at no cost. At this year's BMCC Week of Thanks, the Library’s Open Knowledge team aimed to highlight the genuine appreciation of students in ZTC courses.
Land acknowledgments are an invitation to engage in the hard, uncomfortable work of decolonization by making the invisible visible. While a land acknowledgment makes visible settler colonialism and indigenous erasure, decolonization will only happen in partnership with indigenous peoples.
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