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Thomas Christie calls his small office, buried deep in the Lincoln Public Schools' administrative building, his museum. Now, he'll have to make room on the wall for a national award honoring the district's multicultural education program. The National Association for Multicultural Education each year honors innovative programs for their outstanding contributions. This year, it chose a program that can trace its beginnings back 37 years - 20 years before Nebraska legislators passed a law requiring all districts to have multicultural education. It grew and changed during that time, when the nation passed Title IX and the district created an equity...

The Women’s Center hasn’t closed its doors. A scholarship recognizing contributions to Native heritage remains available. And an on-campus summit focused on empowering black men will go on as planned next month. Two and a half weeks after a judge upheld a new state law banning race- and gender-based affirmative action at public institutions, University of Nebraska-Lincoln leaders are finding the worst-case outcomes they once feared haven’t come to fruition. To be sure, the campus has had to make some adjustments: UNL has added two essay questions to its admissions application inviting students to write about their contributions to diversity,...