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An Exhibition In Student Leadership: The Academic Alternative Spring Break Experience, Elise M. Glidden Ms., Ryan Kilpatrick
An Exhibition In Student Leadership: The Academic Alternative Spring Break Experience, Elise M. Glidden Ms., Ryan Kilpatrick
Senior Honors Projects
An Exhibition in Student Leadership: The Academic Alternative Spring Break Experience
Ryan Kilpatrick and Elise Glidden
Faculty Sponsor: Gail Faris, Women’s Center
The Academic Alternative Spring Break program was founded at URI by Gail Faris six years ago in an effort to introduce students to the ideas of service learning, social justice, and what it means to be a concerned citizen. We were first introduced to this idea in the spring of 2009, when we took the course, Classroom without Borders: Academic Alternative Spring Break. It was about a year later that we both decided that our senior project would …
A Case Study On Perspectives, Whitney Tallarico
A Case Study On Perspectives, Whitney Tallarico
Senior Honors Projects
The Rhode Island Training School becomes a home to juvenile offenders of the law. Home, in so far as it is a place that they sleep, eat, and spend a lot of time in, as well as the atmosphere in which learning and growth occur during the adolescent phase of their lives. There is a very high rate of released inmates who return to the facility for things like running away from group homes, not checking in with their parole officers, or other misdemeanors. It is my belief that this is, at least in part, due to the fact that …