October, 2013
Students Get Firsthand Look at City Budget Process
By: Bruce Lyons Associate Director of Communications Guttman Community College On October 22 students from Dr. Larian Angelo’s Fall I class, The Politics of New York City, were given a firsthand opportunity to learn the workings of the city’s budgeting process by visiting the City Council Finance Division. Jeff Rodus, First Deputy Director, and […]
Read More...Make A Difference Day @ Sinclair Community College
By: David Bodary Service Learning Coordinator Sinclair Community College Students and faculty Sinclair Community College volunteered time on October 25th and 26th in support of their community as part of the national Make A Difference Day. Working in conjunction with Join Hands Miami Valley members of the Sinclair family worked to address issues of literacy, […]
Read More...Local farmers and Growers
By: Tamarra Coleman-Hill Faculty Coordinator of The Democracy Commitment Moraine Valley Community College Moraine Valley Community College hosted a panel presentation on Wednesday October 23rd to discuss the importance of local and sustainable food systems. Local famers Beth Osmund from Cedar Valley Sustainable Farm in Ottawa, Illinois and Chris Voss of Angelic Organics Farm in […]
Read More...APPLY TODAY - Teaching Community Organizing Boot Camp
Attention all community college faculty committed to teaching for change (and those that know them) - Do you want your students to organize for social change? Do you want to learn techniques to prepare students to be leaders in their communities? Do you want to be a part of a larger, supportive network of educators teaching […]
Read More...Campus Sustainability Day 2013
TODAY is Campus Sustainability Day and many TDC member institutes are celebrating with a bang! This year’s theme, according to CampusSustainabilityDay.org, is “Climate Adaptation: Resilient Campuses & Communities.” In Florida, Miami Dade College along with its Earth Ethics Institute (EEI) and Kendall Campus Sustainability Committee is holding a day long annual gathering with community partners […]
Read More...FOOD: Growing through Dialogue
A TDC member institution, Moraine Valley Community College (MVCC) is hosting an event on “The Politics of Food” and it aims to create a continuous dialogue on the growing need for local, sustainable food and the politics behind that need. As the entire country continues to struggle with the issue of child malnutrition and food […]
Read More...Expanding on the Traditional College student
Community college students are usually considered “non-traditional” compared to their four year undergraduate peers; non-traditional, in the sense that they could be one, two, or all of the following: juggling 2-3 jobs, have kids, married, older, first in their family to pursue higher education, a minority, recent immigrant. (Due to economic changes this label identifying […]
Read More...GUTTMAN Fall 2013 COMMUNITY DAYS
COMMUNITY DAYS are a two-day event of workshops, community-based learning and academic service-learning involving all Guttman students. In conjunction with the Fall semester of the City Seminar course taken by all first-year students, “Sustainability and Climate Change” is the theme of this semesters’ COMMUNITY DAYS. With keynote speakers, workshop options and wrap up sessions all […]
Read More...Taylor L. Willingham Legacy Fund - Grant Applications Now Being Accepted
Grant Applications Now Being Accepted - Taylor L. Willingham Legacy Fund Funding for deliberative forums work. Applications due by November 15, 2013. Applications are now being accepted for grants from the National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI) to enable individuals to develop an understanding of deliberative democracy and to launch one or more deliberative forums in their […]
Read More...TDC Welcomes Shasta College
TDC is happy to welcome Shasta College as a new member institution! Shasta College has been making strides in incorporating civic engagement into their student community as well as through course curriculum. Shasta’s mission statement stating “students are provided opportunities to practice and improve critical thinking, effective communication, quantitative reasoning, information competency, community and global […]
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