The Grizzly, February 18, 2021, 2021 Ursinus College
The Grizzly, February 18, 2021, Simra Mariam, Shelsea Deravil, Layla Halterman, Amelia Kunko, Craig Schrager, Katie Cressman, Morgan Grabowski, Dominic Nattle, Ava Compagnoni, Madison Handwerger
Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present
Ursinus Conducts Additional Campus-wide Testing • Founders' Day • Kids Need More • How Athletes are Navigating the Long Off-Season • Phi Kappa Sigma and Friends Enjoy Super Bowl LV • Opinion: The Home Theater Experience Exposed; West Coast Students: Why Ursinus? • Super Bowl LV, COVID-Style • Coach Mike Does it All
Volume Cxxxix, Number 13, February 12, 2021, 2021 Lawrence University
Volume Cxxxix, Number 13, February 12, 2021, Lawrence University
The Lawrentian
No abstract provided.
The Grizzly, February 11, 2021, 2021 Ursinus College
The Grizzly, February 11, 2021, Simra Mariam, Ashley Mccomeskey, Marie Skyes, Layla Halterman, Ava Compagnoni, Rosalia Murphy
Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present
Letter From a Graduate • PA COVID-19 Vaccine Update for Ursinus Students • Student Success is a Priority to Ursinus Staff • V.IRTU.E Club • "Breaking Invisible Barriers": The Mission for More Empathy • Opinion: Wintertime Socially Distanced Activities • Mental Health Check-in with Students and Staff • Successful Women's Tennis Season Cut Short: What Comes Next?
Volume Cxxxix, Number 12, February 5, 2021, 2021 Lawrence University
Volume Cxxxix, Number 12, February 5, 2021, Lawrence University
The Lawrentian
No abstract provided.
The Grizzly, February 4, 2021, 2021 Ursinus College
The Grizzly, February 4, 2021, Simra Mariam, Ava Compagnoni, Shelsea Deravil, Layla Halterman, Jenni Berrios, Amelia Kunko, Morgan Grabowski, Rosalia Murphy
Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present
Not Just a Regular Wednesday in D.C. • Campus Undergoes an Extra Round of Weekly COVID-19 Testing • UC Television Program Coming to Life • Fun in the Snow at Ursinus! • Shannon Collis: Strata Berman Museum Exhibit • Ursinus Artivism: The Freedom of Speech Wall • Opinion: The Reality of Remote Learning and What it has Taught Me • "What is Your Favorite Starbucks Order?" • Wellness Center Update • UC Swim Works for More
Interview With Patrick J. Powers, 2021 Rollins College
Interview With Patrick J. Powers, Patrick J. Powers, Katrina Jenkins
Oral Histories
Born on September 3, 1939 in Evergreen Park, Illinois, Patrick J. Powers initially grew up on the south side of Chicago through his elementary school years, and then lived in Summit, New Jersey with his family when his father was transferred to New York. Unlike his father, a business executive who had a successful career at the Bell Systems and AT&T, Pat took a strong interest in philosophy and enrolled in Villanova University in Philadelphia, PA for his undergraduate study. However, it was a study abroad experience at Collegio Internatiozale de S. Monica in Roma, Italy in the 1960s that …
Transcending Absence, Transforming Presence: Undocumented Migrants And The Navigation Of Forced And Chosen Space, 2021 The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Transcending Absence, Transforming Presence: Undocumented Migrants And The Navigation Of Forced And Chosen Space, Daniel Bloch
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
By its very nature, undocumented migration challenges the notion of set, static borders, at once rendering them transcend-able while also throwing into stark relief the power and control exercised by the state over undocumented migrants along the arc of their journeys. Two main questions guide my analysis: 1) How are migrants forced to enter and navigate geographic space and zones of exclusion? and 2) How do migrants subvert enforced spaces – often categorized by limbo and uncertainty – both by marking them with their presence and by creating alternative spaces? I consider two compelling examples: In Chapter One, using the …
Volume Cxxxix, Number 11, January 29, 2021, 2021 Lawrence University
Volume Cxxxix, Number 11, January 29, 2021, Lawrence University
The Lawrentian
No abstract provided.
Volume Cxxxix, Number 10, January 22, 2021, 2021 Lawrence University
Volume Cxxxix, Number 10, January 22, 2021, Lawrence University
The Lawrentian
No abstract provided.
Volume Cxxxix, Number 9, January 15, 2021, 2021 Lawrence University
Volume Cxxxix, Number 9, January 15, 2021, Lawrence University
The Lawrentian
No abstract provided.
Place, Self, Community: City As Text™ In The Twenty-First Century, 2021 Long Island University - Brooklyn Campus
Place, Self, Community: City As Text™ In The Twenty-First Century, Bernice Braid
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
Students and faculty who have designed or participated in City as Text™ (CAT) know well that every place they have explored has organized itself into areas, events, and interactions that either immediately or eventually make sense out of contradictory bits of information. This realization might be more self-evident in urban walkabouts but has bubbled up to consciousness in rural settings, forests, jungles, neighborhoods, and even a shopping mall explored at a National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) conference.
What lies beneath the surface, we tell our explorers, is what we want to expose to our gaze and unmask for our deeper …
Learning From The Land: Creating Authentic Experience-Based Learning That Fosters Sustained Civic Engagement, 2021 Northern Arizona University
Learning From The Land: Creating Authentic Experience-Based Learning That Fosters Sustained Civic Engagement, Ted Martinez, Kevin Gustafson
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
Grand Canyon Semester (GCS) presents an excellent test case for exploring the success of Honors Semesters in meeting the goals articulated in this contribution to the NCHC Monograph Series: the transferability of skills and the interrelation of integrated learning, experiential education, and civic engagement. GCS began in 1978 as a partnership of Northern Arizona University (NAU), Grand Canyon National Park (GCNP), and the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) that would offer a place-based, experiential, immersive Honors Semester program. Students came from across the country to live onsite at Grand Canyon and NAU and to take interdisciplinary courses taught by NAU …
Lost In Learning: Mapping The Position Of Teacher In The Classroom And Beyond, 2021 Fort Lewis College
Lost In Learning: Mapping The Position Of Teacher In The Classroom And Beyond, Susan M. Cannata, Jesse Peters, Alix Dowling Fink, Edward L. Kinman, Joellen Pederson, Phillip L. Poplin, Jessi B. Znosko
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
Over the last thirty years or so, conversations about teaching pedagogy have consistently focused on the benefits of experiential learning and interdisciplinary connections. In order for students to learn in an optimal way, to develop their critical thinking skills while simultaneously mastering content, they must engage with multiple ways of seeing and knowing. They should learn to acknowledge complexity, to evaluate information, and to challenge their own positionality and self-assuredness. Put succinctly, they must become comfortable with being uncomfortable. These practices provide students with the skills they need to be successful in whatever paths they choose: adaptability, creativity, innovation, the …
Engaging With The World: Integrating Reflections And Agency, 2021 Littleton High School, Littleton, CO
Engaging With The World: Integrating Reflections And Agency, Will Daniel
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
And you may find yourself in another part of the world . . . And you may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?” —Talking Heads,1980
I have been wrestling with that question since I was first asked how a National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) Honors Semester led me into public high school education and how I use that Semester’s experience in my life and work. When I first participated in the NCHC United Nations Semester in the fall of 1984, I did not imagine myself anywhere near a public school classroom. I was focused on changing the world …
Reflections On The 1978 United Nations Semester, 2021 Attorney, International Rule of Law Development
Reflections On The 1978 United Nations Semester, Dawn Schock
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
Over forty years have passed since I attended the National Collegiate Honors Council’s 1978 United Nations Semester (UNS) in New York. I have since served as a resident director of the 1980 UNS, practiced law, and taught as an adjunct law professor. Since 2008, I have spent half of my professional time consulting on international rule of law development projects. I have worked with teams of legal professionals to support the constitutional transition in Tunisia; trained law students and lawyers in the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East and North Africa region; and evaluated the impact of …
Integrating Dynamic Systems Theory And City As Text™ Framework: In-Depth Reflections On ‘Lens’, 2021 Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Integrating Dynamic Systems Theory And City As Text™ Framework: In-Depth Reflections On ‘Lens’, Ron Weerheijm, Patricia Vuijk, Bernice Braid
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
City as Text™ provides a semi-structured learning environment in which small groups of people are challenged to examine parts of a city through “mapping, observing, interpreting, analyzing, reflecting.” In 2014, I (Ron Weerheijm) attended a City as Text (CAT) Faculty Institute in Lyon. During an early session on the hills overlooking the eastern part of Lyon, our group observed a Basilique, the Notre Dame de Fourvière (1872–1884; interior finished 1964). Having a degree in architecture, I looked at this church from architectural and historical viewpoints. I was puzzled. In a quick scan, many different styles competed for my attention, hurting …
Reading The Local In The New Now: Mapping Hidden Opportunities For Civic Engagement In The First Virtual City As Text™ Faculty Institute, 2021 Bemidji State University
Reading The Local In The New Now: Mapping Hidden Opportunities For Civic Engagement In The First Virtual City As Text™ Faculty Institute, Season Ellison, Leslie Heaphy, Amaris Ketcham, Toni Lefton, Andrew Martino, Sara Quay
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
In spring 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic in full force, the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) Place as Text (PAT) Committee reimagined its longstanding City as Text™ (CAT) Faculty Institute model as an experimental virtual training titled “Reading the Local in the New Now” (RLNN). With the cancellation of two scheduled CAT Faculty Institutes because of the pandemic, the committee quickly shifted gears to develop and offer a fully online version of the program. Shorter in length, with participants joining from their homes across the country, the Institute was designed with key CAT principles as its foundation (Braid and Long; …
Connecting To Place: A City As Text™ Assignment Sequence, 2021 Endicott College
Connecting To Place: A City As Text™ Assignment Sequence, Sara Quay
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
Educators need to ‘begin again,’ to put aside old assumptions and look at themselves and their world with new eyes. They need to achieve the freedom to redefine civic opportunities and responsibilities. City as Text provides a preparation, format, and philosophy for accomplishing this exciting and formidable task. —Gladys Palma de Schrynemakers, 2014
If, as Gladys Palma de Schrynemakers asserts, City as Text™ (CAT) has the power to “redefine civic opportunities and responsibilities” (99), then the heart of that work lies in CAT pedagogy’s carefully crafted link between site-specific observations and written reflections. Schrynemakers goes on to claim that civic …
The Merits Of Applied Learning, 2021 Long Island University Brooklyn
The Merits Of Applied Learning, Michael Rossi
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
In the fall semester of my senior year in 1998, twenty-two years before the time of this writing, I participated in the National Collegiate Honors Council’s Honors Semester in Thessaloniki, Greece. I still remember this experience as vividly as if it were yesterday: a four-month long study at Aristotle University in which half our time was spent walking through Thessaloniki’s medieval streets and modern boulevards; interacting with the people on a daily basis in the limited (but workable) Greek we knew; and making a number of weekend excursions—beginning on Wednesday evenings for us—to surrounding areas: Athens, Pelion, the beaches of …
Committee As Text, 2021 University of Maine
Committee As Text, Mimi Killinger
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
I mistakenly joined the Place as Text (PAT) Committee in 2017. Perusing a list of prospective standing committees to join on the NCHC website, I had clicked on “Semesters Committee” (now “Place as Text”), having seen NCHC flyers advertising their adventurous institutes, which sounded fascinating though I had never attended one myself. Shortly thereafter I received an invitation to the committee’s June working meeting in Brooklyn that likewise sounded promising. Had I been well versed in the City as Text™ (CAT) pedagogy that undergirds PAT, I might have then done some reading, finding out more about the group and perhaps …