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Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! Today we celebrate and honor our Indigenous students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community partners in CLA.

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Indigenous Peoples' Day 2025
Honoring our Indigenous students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community partners.
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October 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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AI raises big questions. The liberal arts help answer them.

See how #UMNCLA scholars are exploring what it means to live, learn, and create in an AI-driven world.

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AI and the Liberal Arts
Artificial intelligence raises big questions, CLA scholars at the University of Minnesota are finding the answers.
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October 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Today marks the beginning of Latinx Heritage Month. We honor the scholarship, creative expression, and community contributions of our Chicanx and Latinx students, alumni, faculty, staff, and partners.

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Latinx Heritage Month 2025
Honoring our Chicanx and Latinx students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community partners.
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September 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Traditional census data is a static snapshot. But what if we could see how cities truly function? New research from Asst. Prof Di Zhu (Geography, Environment & Society) used mobile data to create a dynamic "visitor census."

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#research #census #demographics
New map brings census data to life
New research from the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts analyzed U.S. Census and mobile phone data to understand how people interact in their communities.
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September 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Happy first day of class, #UMNCLA students! ⭐
September 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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#UMNCLA nationally recognized music therapy program trains future Board-Certified Music Therapists to use evidence-based, individualized approaches that support healing, communication, memory, and more.

🎵 Learn how music therapy is changing the future of healthcare: cla.umn.edu/music/news-e...
Inside UMN’s Music Therapy Program
Take a look inside the School of Music's innovative music therapy program.
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August 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Minnesota’s healthcare future just got more inclusive. The college’s new medical Spanish minor equips students with the language skills to provide better care for Spanish-speaking communities.

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Speaking the Language of Care: Introducing the New Medical Spanish Minor
The medical Spanish minor equips future healthcare professionals to provide empathetic and culturally appropriate care to more members of our community.
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August 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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#UMNCLA Scholar of the College Michael Esposito is busting myths and exposing how systems, from redlining to infrastructure, actively produce inequality in American health outcomes.

🧠 Read how he’s reshaping the conversation: cla.umn.edu/news-events/...
Mythbusting with Michael Esposito
How one sociologist is unraveling persistent falsehoods about racial health disparities and reimagining the solutions we need.
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August 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Planning your fall 2025 schedule? Start with your health.

From medical ethics to music therapy, global health to neurodiversity—these #UMNCLA classes help you understand how we care for ourselves and others.

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Fall 2025 CLA Courses: Health in the Arts and Sciences
From music classes to anthropology to global sciences and journalism, CLA offers a wide variety of classes to learn about the different aspects of health and medicine.
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August 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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#UMNCLA sophomores Claire Reinke and Izaan Rana are shaping the future of healthcare—through speech pathology, medicine, and a commitment to culturally aware care.

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Preparing the next generation of healthcare providers
The liberal arts are increasingly a destination for careers in healthcare, and the University of Minnesota’s College of Liberal Arts offers guidance and support for pre-health students on their pathwa...
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July 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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First post alert! 📣

In #UMNCLA, we believe history, culture, language, ethics, and human connection shape who gets to be well.

Learn how our students and scholars are building a healthier world: cla.umn.edu/news-events/...

#LiberalArts #HealthEquity #PublicHealth #Wellbeing #CLAChangeMakers
How the Liberal Arts Improve Health and Well-being
What do Spanish, sociology, and music have to do with health? Everything.
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July 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM