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Editorial: International faculty benefit perspectives on campus

Editorial: International faculty benefit perspectives on campus

By The Ithacan • February 27, 2020
On Feb. 19, Mirit Hadar-Bessire, lecturer in the Ithaca College Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, officially became a U.S. citizen.
Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, professor and chair of the politics department, is the daughter of Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka who promised to leave the United States if Donald Trump was elected president.

Politics chair discusses nobel prize-winning father’s US exodus

By Erin Conway, Staff Writer • February 20, 2017
Wole Soyinka, the father of Ithaca College professor Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, was the first African writer to win a Nobel Prize in literature.
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