{"id":7215,"date":"2022-05-02T09:48:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T13:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=7215"},"modified":"2025-06-28T21:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T01:02:36","slug":"secrets-of-a-jedi-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2022\/05\/02\/secrets-of-a-jedi-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Secrets of a JEDI Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The secret to becoming a JEDI was finally revealed in one presentation on University Day. Megan Waceken, Ricky Goupille and Abi Davis presented for their HUM 186 class. HUM 186, also known as Becoming a JEDI, explores and examines aspects of diversity, equity and inclusion and how they tie into social justice on a local, regional and global scale. Their group presentation shared their personal journeys to becoming a true JEDI.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Being the first group of students to take the class, Waceken and Goupille shared what they have enjoyed about their overall experience learning how to be a JEDI. \u201cI\u2019ve enjoyed getting to learn about a group that I did not know much about before,\u201d Waceken said. \u201cWe learn about their challenges, successes and their life. It really puts the person back into what was once a stereotype. It brings the person back. I think that\u2019s really important.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Goupille agreed with his classmate and weighed in with his own takeaways. \u201cIt really stretched my perspective on everything,\u201d he said. \u201cThat we\u2019re all equally human and whatever our backgrounds are does not really matter at the end of the day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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From the left: Ricky Goupille, Megan Waceken, and Abi Davis presenting Secrets of the JEDI.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The presentation outlined the individual projects the group has been working on this semester. Their projects involved researching a marginalized group they do not identify with themselves. Waceken, whose older brother has a hearing impairment, chose to research people who have hearing loss or hearing impairments. Goupille, who was inspired by a friend in the military, chose to focus on veterans and the struggles of reintegration after deployment. Davis, whose sibling is an enbie, spent the semester researching the non-binary community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Collectively, it was the group\u2019s first experience presenting at University Day. \u201cIt was cool to present and be a part of the presentation,\u201d Goupille said. Waceken felt the same. \u201cI did have fun presenting,\u201d Waceken said. \u201cThere\u2019s always that small factor of being up in front of everyone and getting a little nervous. But being able to share what we\u2019ve done is so great.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The secret to becoming a JEDI was finally revealed in one presentation on University Day. Megan Waceken, Ricky Goupille and Abi Davis presented for their HUM 186 class. HUM 186, also known as Becoming a JEDI, explores and examines aspects of diversity, equity and inclusion and how they tie into social justice on a local, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8135,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions\/8135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}