Universities are developing innovative ways to engage with their communities. At Wright State University, community engagement is central to our identity and part of what made the university an attractive place to teach. This is reflected in the strong programs in public health, family practice medicine, public administration, education, psychology, theater, and many other [...]
Posts Tagged ‘civic engagement’
Quest for Community
Posted in civic engagement, tagged civic engagement, Quest for Community, STEM school, Wright State University on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Should a blog be like a magazine?
Posted in Education, civic engagement, cultural heritage, history, place, tagged And Did Those Feet, blogs, civic engagement on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kevin Flude wonders if his blog, And Did Those Feet: Cultural Heritage Resources Blog “is too diverse – a bit like my working life. Not connected enough?” Kevin considers splitting his blog into three: London, museums, and archaeology. I’ve been blogging long enough to get a feel for what I might in fact [...]
DaytonCREATE launches website
Posted in Dayton, civic engagement, tagged civic engagement, Dayton, daytoncreatives, richard florida, soche on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
PRESS RELEASE
March 27, 2008
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Stephanie Yenn
Communications Chair
DaytonCREATE
(937) 226-8256
DaytonCREATE launches website
Dayton, OH – 3/27/08 – www.DaytonCREATE.org is the umbrella organization for initiatives created by 32 community Catalysts, after participating in a two-day research, training and brainstorming seminar facilitated by the Florida Creativity Group. The [...]
“We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For”
Posted in Dayton, Education, civic engagement, narrative, oral history, scholarship, tagged civic engagement, civil rights, democratic citizenship, Harry Boyte, June Jordan, Kettering Foundation, Obama, peer-review, scholarship of service, service learning on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Harry Boyte, from the University of Minnesota, shared with us the history of the Obama campaign phrase, “we are the ones we have been waiting for.” In a column for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, he took Maureen Dowd to task for suggesting Maria Shriver was the source of the quote. Instead, Boyte recalls the [...]
Deliberative Democracy and Higher Education
Posted in Education, civic engagement, history, scholarship, tagged civic engagement, democratic citizenship, Harry Boyte, Kettering Foundation on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In preparation for the plenary session, the Kettering Foundation sent the following texts along with the framing statement and the David Mathews’ essay discussed earlier:
Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy and John Puckett, Dewey’s Dream: Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform (Temple University Press, 2007)–this publication addresses a theme that would be repeated [...]
Civic Learning
Posted in Cityfolk, Education, civic engagement, history, narrative, oral history, tagged "Uprising of '34", civic engagement, civic learning, Judith Helfand, Kettering Foundation, NERCHE on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The film “Uprising of ‘34” tells the story of the General Strike that impacted textile mills and mill towns across the American South. Defiant mill workers confronted the control of mill owners. The Uprising brings into relief relationships of class, race, gender, power, and autonomy. The filmmakers entered communities and stirred up the painful [...]
