OACS Update

Posted by Eileen Remley on Tuesday, January 31, 2017 in News Blurbs.

Dr. Randy Stoecker, Visiting February 8^th

OACS is very proud to host a presentation and discussion by Randy Stoecker, Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The talk will talk place on February 8^th, 9:30-11:00am, in the Black Cultural Center’s auditorium.

Dr. Stoecker is a highly published scholar in the area of service learning and community engagement, including Research Methods for Community Change: A Project-Based Approach (2005), The Unheard Voices: Community Organizations and Service Learning (2009, co-edited with Elizabeth Tryon), The Landscape of Rural Service Learning, and What It Teaches Us All (2016, co-edited with Nicholas Holton and Charles Ganzert), and dozens of articles on community movements and development, qualitative methods, and social change.

His most recent book and the subject of the talk is Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement (2016), which is a personal and highly critical reflection on the many possibilities and limitations of service learning. In it he expands upon his previous work by sensitively exploring the contradictions of service learning pedagogy, and how when “liberated” from its institutionalized forms, it might help transform higher education and our broader world.

Stories of Apartheid from South Africa to Palestine

GEO Study Abroad and Passport Fair

OACS extends a warm thank to our partners in the Global Education Office for allowing us to table at the Study Abroad and Passport Fair on January 25^th.  At GEO’s Study Abroad & Passport Fair, students meet with program providers, representatives of host universities, faculty directors, GEO study abroad alumni, and GEO’s advising staff to learn more about study abroad options.

International Lens

Wednesday, February 22^nd 7:30pm in Sarratt Cinema

Dr. Clive Mentzel will present Half of a Yellow Sun. This award-winning drama, based on the novel Half of a Yellow Sun be Chimamanda Adichie, is a love story based in Nigeria. Two sisters return home to 1960s Nigeria, where they soon diverge on different paths. Civil war then unites them as they join the fight to establish an independent republic. They become caught up in the astonishing violence of the Nigerian Civil War and deceit threatens their home life. English. Rated R. Blu-Ray. 111 min.

Keegan Traveling Fellowship

The Michael B. Keegan Fellowship enhances the development of future leaders through world travel and experiential learning. The program is designed to allow a graduating senior the opportunity to pursue an idea or an issue, about which the student is impassioned, and to do so in the context of daily life in a global scenario. 11 seniors have applied for this years’ fellowship award. The Keegan Committee met Friday, January 27^th to shortlist applicants, and interviews are scheduled for February 10^th.

National Campaign for Political and Civic Engagement Conference

Olivia Solow-Niederman and Emma Stewart will serve as the 2017 Ambassadors at the annual National Campaign conference. College students from 28 schools across the country will convene at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics’ (IOP) National Campaign for Political and Civic Engagement Conference from February 3-5. The campus representatives will identify what young Americans see as the root causes of national divisiveness and create community-based action plans to reconnect America. Meagan Smith will accompany students and will participate in the conference on behalf of OACS.

http://iop.harvard.edu/get-involved/national-campaign-2017