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Love Literature, Stop Censorship, Buy a Book, Build a Better World
Comments, emails, and tweets from Wednesday’s post on Arizona banned books have led to very specific opportunities to address this issue, right now. This is one of the easiest ways to make an important difference ever announced, so I hope you’ll … Continue reading
Buy a Banned Book, Read, Build a Better World
The bottom line: Many mind-opening, empathy-inducing, and freedom-enhancing books are effectively banned in the US right now. Let’s buy them, read them, discuss them, and share them. Just click here to do so. As many of you have heard, this … Continue reading
Twitter Roundup: Civic Engagement, Service-Learning, Volunteerism
With an admitted bias toward university civic engagement, Wednesday night I mined the twittersphere for indication of who ‘our’ biggest social media representatives are. And by our I mean those individuals who are compelled by the idea that universities must … Continue reading
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5th Annual Global Service-Learning Institute at Cornell Imminent
In case you’ve missed it, an engaging opportunity for deep thinking and reflection on global service-learning is just around the corner. Here’s the institute announcement from New York Campus Compact: Do you currently teach a global/international service-learning course? Are you … Continue reading
Genius, Vision, Ignorance and Expertise: Invisible Children’s Kony 2012
What is good global civic engagement? What are its assumptions regarding human dignity and emerging global community? How much expertise must global civil society participants exhibit, if any? How do our students’ study abroad experiences relate to their lives at … Continue reading