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Subject: Service Learning, Scholarship and the University
From:    "RODNEY COATES" <[log in to unmask]>
Date:    Wed, April 18, 2007 1:53 pm
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 Service Learning, Scholarship and the University *Presentations and
Invitation* When:    Tuesday, April 24, 2007 Time:      6-7:30 p.m.Place:
     339 Upham Hall Rationale:             Can a small group of students
have a significant impact upon a University? Is service learning a
scholarly enterprise sufficient to engage students?  What is the
connection between critical scholarship, civic engagement, and reflective
pedagogy? What is the relationship between black faculty and student
forums, religious organizing in England, environmental degradation, skin
cancer among college athletes, and music?               I would like to
invite you to a series of presentations by students in an upper division
course entitled Social and Political Activism (BWS/SOC 470).  These
presentations ranging from organizing black faculty and students into
proactive forums, connecting religious communities via the Internet,
living green, avoiding skin cancer, and continuing a music tradition. 
Student’s have developed and implemented service learning projects
designed and informed by intellectual perspectives gleaned from two
central texts *Jared Diamond’s How Societies Choose to Succeed or Fail
and Charles Lemert’s Post Modernism It’s Not what You think.  One of the
central goals of the projects was to create sustainability.  Already
these projects have been accomplished, and you are invited to attend the
presentations and judge for yourself.  Therefore it is with great
pleasure that I invite you to these presentations:  Sincerely,  Rodney D.
CoatesProfessor *Funding for these projects were provided by the Office
of Community Engagement and Service, Miami University



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