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Partners for Lifelong Learning NIU P-20 Pre-school to Graduate School

Genocide…
is never inevitable: It is always the result of choice. And surely lives are not interchangeable.
- Roger Smith
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For Middle School and High School Educators

June 15-21, 2008 at N I U, Dekalb, IL
June 22-27, 2008 at American University, Washington D.C.
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Including 4 days in Washington, D.C.

With visits to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian, various national and international government agencies and additional non-government organizations. 

Institute Director:

J.D. Bowers, Assistant Professor,
Northern Illinois University, Department of History

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Sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Center for
Southeast Asian Studies and the Department of History.


For additional information, please contact Liberal Arts
and Sciences External Programming at
(815)753-5200 or via e-mail at LASEP@niu.edu

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