Professional Communication Skills for Higher Education: BLM Report

This report examines the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement's impact on UK universities, prompted by the resurgence after George Floyd's death. It analyzes the responses of UK universities, discussing the challenges of addressing anti-Black racism and the importance of communication. The report outlines possible solutions, including mandatory anti-racism training, and the need for universities to recognize past failings and partner with student organizations. It recommends that universities audit their communication practices, publicly acknowledge past shortcomings, and allocate dedicated resources for anti-racism initiatives. The report also highlights the significance of measuring progress beyond traditional metrics and offers insights into how universities can improve their support for Black students and staff. The report concludes by emphasizing the need to prioritize anti-Black racism and treat the BLM movement as a long-term commitment, urging universities to take action to improve the situation for People of Colour.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1: Brief outline of the possible solutions that could be adopted.................................................3
TASK 2: Detail examination that why I am not recommending at least two possible solutions............4
TASK 3: Explanation to the solutions which I am recommending with proper justifications................6
CONCLUSION.....................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES......................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) development was revived in May 2020 after the
homicide of George Floyd in the US. The account showing his demise because of the police
flowed overall while a huge number of individuals were secured because of the Coronavirus
pandemic. These interesting conditions gave the impetus to a worldwide emission of activism
for Black Lives and drove numerous people and associations to think about freely the duty
they have for testing hostile to Dark prejudice in our general public. Numerous colleges
offered public expressions in May and June 2020 in light of the Black Lives Matter
development to show support. A portion of these assertions were met with solid analysis
(Akinkugbe, 2021). Many accepted that the explanations were empty since hostile to Dark
prejudice is definitely not another wonder throughout the long term, understudies, staff, and
activists have been raising these issues yet it created the impression that lone now colleges
were set up to discuss their help of Black Lives Matter freely. Many People of Black Lives
Matter have been affected and harmed because of prejudice that had recently gone unchecked
inside colleges, and seeing a college unexpectedly show support without pondering their
previous failings has been a wellspring of disappointment for some. The present report
comprises of an understanding about the aspect along with a recommendations and solutions
to the problem.
TASK 1: Brief outline of the possible solutions that could be adopted
Black Lives Matter is an association that began in 2013. It was made in light of
bigotry and against Dark viciousness, mostly as police ruthlessness. It began in the US after
the deadly shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Dark young person, completed by a local
watch volunteer who accordingly didn't get condemned to jail. This occasion prompted the
introduction of the #BlackLivesMatter development via web-based media. Black Lives
Matter, the US association, has sections across the world (Campbell, 2021). Black Lives
Matter UK (UKBLM) is embraced by the US association anyway it isn't yet an authority part.
BLM associations (both authority and informal) talk about police mercilessness and
governmental issues and are seen by some as revolutionary political gatherings. This, close
by the absence of straightforwardness around the Black Lives Matter UK bunch, has
prompted worries by some about supporting the association. All in all, when individuals say
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“Black Lives Matter “it is implied as an articulation, regardless of whether they support an
authority or informal BLM association – this is essential to comprehend.
One needs to have hostile to bigoted people. This should be done through instruction for all,
through preparing. We suggest that enemy of prejudice preparing is obligatory for all staff,
understudies, and understudy officials at UK colleges. This ought to be scattered midway by
offices that handle individual’s improvement and understudy advancement for example
Human resource. The advanced education area needs to restrict its utilization of the term.
Gatherings frequently get lost and we suggest that colleges use 'Dark' while alluding to
Individuals of colour, not 'BAME'. The encounters of Dark English understudies are unique
in relation to Dark global understudies. The encounters of Individuals of colour are not quite
the same as People of colour (Corral, 2020). The encounters of a Dark Trans individual are
not quite the same as a Dark is individual. The encounters of prejudice will be unique. The
intercessions that establishments take need to mirror that Dark is anything but a homogenous
gathering and we suggest UK colleges survey the convergences inside to cook for each
gathering in an ideal manner.
TASK 2: Detail examination that why I am not recommending at least two
possible solutions
While making analysis there are few challenges which I faced due to which I am not
recommending two possible solutions to the problems that are mentioned below:
College and understudies' association staff communicated that they feared saying some
unacceptable thing and stressed over what the results to that would be. A few groups in
positions of authority are not knowledgeable in enemy of bigotry work thus have battled with
discussions and making a move towards it. In certain cases, there has been a distinction
between how the understudy association and the college see the reaction that the
establishment has taken towards the BLM development (Evans, 2020). A few understudies
and understudy officials have felt that their thoughts have not been thought of. Some SU
officials think that it’s hard to work with the college simultaneously as considering them
responsible. Numerous SUs are completing their own effective work to help their Dark
understudies. Because of an absence of monetary help, some SUs have needed to restrict their
work on this issue. In spite of the well-meaning goals behind the explanation to help Dark
understudies and staff, in the event that it has all the earmarks of being something that is
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certainly not a nonstop activity or an abrupt activity then it is hard for understudies and staff
to have faith in it. Additionally, if an establishment has had issues with or chronicled
hazardous connections to prejudice, and has not tended to it and offered reparations, at that
point it has restricted believability with any enemy of bigotry work it might attempt. On the
off chance that explanations don't have substance to them and appear as though a reading
material PR work out, at that point they will not have meaning. A few group have contrasted
prejudice in the UK with that in the US and have communicated that it is "not as terrible
here".
TASK 3: Explanation to the solutions which I am recommending with
proper justifications
It is suggested that colleges audit their administration and interchanges practices to
guarantee that they treat understudies' associations as accomplices and basic companions. The
colleges freely recognize past failings in managing prejudice and framework their
arrangements and schedule to offer peace. The colleges convey their enemy of bigotry
movement obviously to understudies, staff, and the more extensive public, distributing their
enemy of prejudice explanations online appropriately. Race balance is viewed as a significant
issue; notwithstanding, numerous college chiefs have communicated that they have had
different issues that apparently was seriously squeezing and should have been managed
earnestly (Hou and et. al., 2020). Surely, the capacity of colleges to react during this time will
have been influenced because of the gigantic pressing factors welcomed on by Coronavirus,
and this has restricted their capacity to commit time and assets. Reacting to Coronavirus
doesn't imply that enemy of bigotry can't be centred around. This pandemic has exacerbated
imbalances, so it is much more basic for against bigotry work to be finished. Hostile to
prejudice and Coronavirus reactions are interlaced. Colleges control their own financial
plans; they can choose whether assets are designated towards hostile to prejudice and whether
they consider it to be a fundamental territory for speculation. I suggest that colleges
incorporate enemy of prejudice subsidizing as a component of their yearly budgetary audit
and put away committed assets for hostile to bigotry movement. Notwithstanding the
standard ways that achievement is estimated (like the Dark Granting Hole), take a gander at
alternate approaches to screen progress. A proportion of achievement that colleges might not
have considered is estimating the number of Dark understudies consistently run for chose
positions in their SU. On the off chance that there is a poisonous culture in colleges for ethnic
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minorities, they may not run for administrative roles. In the event that they made some awful
memories with bigotry, they most likely will not have any desire to be positive
representatives for the college (Rinfrette, 2021). I prescribe colleges distinguish extra
approaches to gauge and screen accomplishment against hostile to bigotry. That colleges and
understudies' associations perceive that prejudice exists in both the college and understudies'
association structures and that it gets standard to audit bigotry as a feature of existing college
and SU administration survey rehearses.
CONCLUSION
Since May 2020, there has been a recognizable change in open ability to all the more
likely help People of colour. Notwithstanding, months on, progress is fluctuated and appears
to be delayed in numerous spots. From directing this exploration project, we can see that
understudy chiefs and college senior initiative groups have been attempting to all the more
likely help People of colour. Many mean well and are energetic about improving. Some have
been acceptable at conveying that to their staff, understudies, and people in general, yet many
have bombed on that front. This makes it appear as though no work is being finished.
Genuine inquiries should be posed of the entire area. People of colour Matter ought not to be
treated as a passing pattern; it should be digging in for the long haul. Right now is an ideal
opportunity to put hostile to Dark bigotry at the highest point of the plan. It supports
everything. In the event that one piece of your staff or understudy partner isn't getting proper
help, beside it being ethically off-base, you are bamboozling them; however you are denying
your college of opened ability and potential. Going above and beyond, Individuals of colour
may even blacklist customary colleges through and through for new instructive offers. What
happened for this present year ought to be taken as a notice to college senior authority; take
this risk to improve the situation for People of colour now, before it is past the point of no
return.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Akinkugbe, O.D., 2021. Olga Martin-Ortega and Claire Methven O’Brien (eds.), Public
Procurement and Human Rights: Opportunities, Risks and Dilemmas for the State as
Buyer (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019), ISBN
1788116305. Business and Human Rights Journal. 6(1). pp.174-177.
Campbell, D., 2021. Paul Laurence Dunbar:“When Malindy Sings,” The Sport of the Gods,
and Black Lives Matter. American Literary Realism. 53(2). pp.106-111.
Corral, Á.J., 2020. Allies, Antagonists, or Ambivalent? Exploring Latino Attitudes about the
Black Lives Matter Movement. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. 42(4).
pp.431-454.
Dahlin, E.L., 2021. How Brand Activism Affects Consumer Attitude: A study on Swedish
consumers’ attitudes towards companies using brand activism, with the Black Lives
Matter movement as context (Doctoral dissertation, Uppsala University).
Evans, R., 2020. Inquest reveals systemic cruelty: Black lives matter. Green Left Weekly,
(1287), p.20.
Hou and et. al., 2020. The Journal of Law & Equality's Letter of Solidarity with Black Lives
Matter. Journal of Law & Equality.
Rinfrette, E.S., 2021. Adolescents, COVID19, and Black Lives Matter. Journal of Social
Work Practice in the Addictions, pp.1-5.
Schneider, N., 2020. Black Lives Matter: The (Trans) local Movement for Black Lives in
Germany. Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte. 33(1). pp.72-88.
Van Hout, M.C. and Wazaify, M., 2021. Parallel discourses: leveraging the Black Lives
Matter movement to fight colorism and skin bleaching practices. Public Health, 192,
pp.1-2.
Wade, C.L., 2020. I’ll Probably Die with Promises: A Study of American Rap Artists in the
Context of Black Lives Matter (Doctoral dissertation, Campbellsville University).
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