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Fearless: Immersion Projects, Center for Public Service 2013 Gettysburg College

Fearless: Immersion Projects, Center For Public Service

SURGE

Students on an Immersion Project in New Orleans are definitely doing some great work this week! The students spent part of the week working with Grow Dat Youth Farm in New Orleans City Park, an organization that hires youth from the city to work at the farm. They sell 60% of their organically grown food at whole food markets and restaurants and they donate the rest to their student workers. The organization strives to teach their volunteers responsibility, team work and commitment. [excerpt]


Fearless: Steph Adamczak, Stephanie K. Adamczak 2013 Gettysburg College

Fearless: Steph Adamczak, Stephanie K. Adamczak

SURGE

Steph Adamczak ’15 has been shaking things up on campus by having some fearless conversations about the current investments Gettysburg College is making in fossil fuels. Steph hopes that by opening these important conversations, the college will consider divesting from these specific investments, especially with increased support from the Gettysburg College student body. [excerpt]


Neighborhood Identity And Sustainability: A Comparison Study Of Two Neighborhoods In Portland, Oregon, Zachary Lawrence Hathaway 2013 Portland State University

Neighborhood Identity And Sustainability: A Comparison Study Of Two Neighborhoods In Portland, Oregon, Zachary Lawrence Hathaway

Dissertations and Theses

Anthropogenic impact on the environment, mainly resource depletion and pollution, is limiting the potential for future generations to have the same resources that previous generations have enjoyed. Perhaps one of the greatest challenges of our time will be curtailing our own personal impacts on the environment. To do this, we must adopt more sustainable lifestyles at home. This research sought to understand how neighborhood identity affects sustainability at the household level. In the summer of 2012, residents of two neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon completed 314 self-report, web-based surveys. The neighborhoods selected for this research were demographically similar, but one projected …


The Rattler (Volume 101, Issue 3, Edition 1), St. Mary's University 2013 St. Mary's University

The Rattler (Volume 101, Issue 3, Edition 1), St. Mary's University

The Rattler (Previous issues)

Founded in 1919, The Rattler is the student voice of St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. The newspaper documents campus life, academic and social issues, student opinion, and local and national events as they relate to the University community. Content typically includes news articles, editorial commentary, arts and culture coverage, sports reporting, and advertisements.


Pushing The Boundaries: What Youth Organizers At Boston's Hyde Square Task Force Have To Teach Us About Civic Engagement, Meredith L. Mira 2013 Harvard Graduate School of Education

Pushing The Boundaries: What Youth Organizers At Boston's Hyde Square Task Force Have To Teach Us About Civic Engagement, Meredith L. Mira

Democracy & Education

Across the United States, researchers and youth workers alike have identified an increasing number of civically engaged youth who are organizing to improve their communities and schools. By taking an action-oriented approach, these youth are speaking back to the notion that they are uninvolved in society. This interview-based study explores the meaning-making experiences of youth organizers at Boston’s Hyde Square Task Force (HSTF) to better understand how they engage. Findings suggest that HSTF is engaging two broad groups of youth by focusing on both their personal development and their sense of community awareness. The study introduces an organizing model of …


Good Neighbors? Relationship Between Colby And The Community Marked By Tensions, Community Service, Mutual Economic Interests, David McKay Wilson 2013 Colby College

Good Neighbors? Relationship Between Colby And The Community Marked By Tensions, Community Service, Mutual Economic Interests, David Mckay Wilson

Colby Magazine

Colby and Waterville navigate a relationship marked by tensions, community service, and mutual interests.


A Better Place: Graduates Follow Their Ideals Into The Expanding World Of Organizations Dedicated To Helping Others, Ruani S. Freeman 2013 Colby College

A Better Place: Graduates Follow Their Ideals Into The Expanding World Of Organizations Dedicated To Helping Others, Ruani S. Freeman

Colby Magazine

From the Congo to New Orleans, Colbians are fanned out across the globe, working with nonprofit organizations that want to leave the world a better place. Read about what they do and why they do it.


An Examination Of The Motivations Of Attendees At Cal Poly's "Change The Status Quo" Conference, James Statton 2013 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

An Examination Of The Motivations Of Attendees At Cal Poly's "Change The Status Quo" Conference, James Statton

Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Administration

The social activism community exists to address the collective responsibility of meeting needs and fighting for the rights of the disadvantaged and/or marginalized populations. The Change the Status Quo conference aims to educate, motivate, and activate attendees. The purpose of this study was to measure the motivations of attendees at the Change the Status Quo conference at Cal Poly to become involved in social activism. The study was conducted through a questionnaire distributed and collected during the final workshop of the conference. The findings from 72 participants indicated that most were female and college students. Most were also frequently involved …


Torch (March 2013), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project 2013 University of Southern Maine

Torch (March 2013), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project

Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Defining Safety For Universities: The Slippery Conceptual Slope, Pam Jenkins 2013 The University of New Orleans

Defining Safety For Universities: The Slippery Conceptual Slope, Pam Jenkins

DRU Workshop 2013 Presentations – Disaster Resistant University Workshop: Linking Mitigation and Resilience

In this presentation, we address the issue of the fragility of campus safety. The uniqueness of a college campus creates a context for safety that requires an intentional and specific understanding. Campus life for many is no longer (or perhaps never was) ‘an ivory tower’— a place separated and protected from the rest of the community. However, many still have the attitude that a campus is not like the real world in the United States. And in fact, colleges and universities are often much safer and more open than communities around them. Yet, ask any student affairs director or safety …


Southern Nevada Agency Partnership, Cultural Site Stewardship Program – Steward Retention And Program Transfer: Final Project Report, George Phillips, Margaret N. Rees 2013 University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Southern Nevada Agency Partnership, Cultural Site Stewardship Program – Steward Retention And Program Transfer: Final Project Report, George Phillips, Margaret N. Rees

Cultural Site Stewardship Program

Southern Nevada Agency Partnership, Cultural Site Stewardship Program – Steward Retention and Program Transfer is a Round 11 Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (SNPLMA)-funded project implemented by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Public Lands Institute on behalf of and in cooperation with four Federal agencies. This project resulted in the retention of community members to serve as a voluntary workforce to regularly monitor assigned cultural sites on federal public lands in Clark County, Nevada, and the transfer of the Cultural Site Stewardship Program (CSSP) to the Nevada State Historical Preservation Office.


What Jeronimo Maradiaga Learned: After Immersing Himself In The Arduous And Unsettling World Of Poverty, Watson Fellow Questions The West's Notions Of Success, Gerry Boyle 2013 Colby College

What Jeronimo Maradiaga Learned: After Immersing Himself In The Arduous And Unsettling World Of Poverty, Watson Fellow Questions The West's Notions Of Success, Gerry Boyle

Colby Magazine

Watson Fellow Jeronimo Maradiaga ’09 set out to explore the world of the disadvantaged. It was a life-changing experience, but not for the reasons one might think.


Uncorking The Mommy Market: Phenomenal Facebook Following Has Marilé Borden Contemplating The Future Of Moms Who Need Wine, Ruth Jacobs 2013 Colby College

Uncorking The Mommy Market: Phenomenal Facebook Following Has Marilé Borden Contemplating The Future Of Moms Who Need Wine, Ruth Jacobs

Colby Magazine

Marilé Borden ’94 has hundreds of thousands of people watching her Facebook page Moms Who Need Wine. Now what to do with them?


The Rattler (Volume 101, Issue 2, Edition 1), St. Mary's University 2013 St. Mary's University

The Rattler (Volume 101, Issue 2, Edition 1), St. Mary's University

The Rattler (Previous issues)

Founded in 1919, The Rattler is the student voice of St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. The newspaper documents campus life, academic and social issues, student opinion, and local and national events as they relate to the University community. Content typically includes news articles, editorial commentary, arts and culture coverage, sports reporting, and advertisements.


The Rattler (Volume 101, Issue 1, Edition 1), St. Mary's University 2013 St. Mary's University

The Rattler (Volume 101, Issue 1, Edition 1), St. Mary's University

The Rattler (Previous issues)

Founded in 1919, The Rattler is the student voice of St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. The newspaper documents campus life, academic and social issues, student opinion, and local and national events as they relate to the University community. Content typically includes news articles, editorial commentary, arts and culture coverage, sports reporting, and advertisements.


From Toxic Tours To Growing The Grassroots: Tensions In Critical Pedagogy And Community Development, Celina Su, Isabelle Jagninski 2013 City University of New York

From Toxic Tours To Growing The Grassroots: Tensions In Critical Pedagogy And Community Development, Celina Su, Isabelle Jagninski

Publications and Research

Structural inequalities in American public education are inextricably tied to deep-seated patterns of racial and economic segregation. Children in poor neighborhoods are less likely to have the household resources, neighborhood institutions, or school amenities necessary for a good, challenging education. In response, a growing number of organizations have launched initiatives to simultaneously revitalize neighborhoods and improve public education, emphasizing youth participation as an essential component in their efforts. We draw upon ethnographic data from two such organizations to examine their practice of place-based critical pedagogy in community development. We focus on how they engage marginalized, “hard-to-reach” youth via (1) experiential …


Independent Republic Quarterly, 2013, Vol. 47, No. 1-2, Horry County Historical Society 2013 Coastal Carolina University

Independent Republic Quarterly, 2013, Vol. 47, No. 1-2, Horry County Historical Society

The Independent Republic Quarterly

A journal of the Horry County Historical Society, Conway, S.C. Contains local history articles and information covering the entire county. ISSN:0046-8843.


Independent Republic Quarterly, 2013, Vol. 47, No. 3-4, Horry County Historical Society 2013 Coastal Carolina University

Independent Republic Quarterly, 2013, Vol. 47, No. 3-4, Horry County Historical Society

The Independent Republic Quarterly

A journal of the Horry County Historical Society, Conway, S.C. Contains local history articles and information covering the entire county. ISSN:0046-8843.


Personal Reflections From Eportfolio: Ahrc New York City, Cindy Guerrero 2013 Pace University

Personal Reflections From Eportfolio: Ahrc New York City, Cindy Guerrero

Community Action Forum: Seidenberg School

No abstract provided.


Citizens For Peace Activities & Accomplishments 2012, Ann Abdoo 2013 none

Citizens For Peace Activities & Accomplishments 2012, Ann Abdoo

Citizens for Peace

No abstract provided.


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