Tag: Degree
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MSU Denver launches ‘Mariachi Performance and Culture’ degree program
Metropolitan State University Denver is launching an Individualized Degree Program in Mariachi Performance and Culture this fall — the first of its kind in Colorado. The new program combines a variety of disciplines including music performance, Chicana/o Studies, world Languages and business courses, aiming to inform all areas of what it means to perform or run…
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Blues legend, Otis Taylor, receives honorary diploma 57 years after expulsion for long hair
In 1966 two months before his graduation from Manual High School, blues legend Otis Taylor told school administrators he would not comply with school policy mandating short hair for male students, so he was expelled. After a friend noticed Taylor’s photo in a notable grads display, Taylor began to tell people that he had in…