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Sunday, November 5th, 2023

The SHECP Internship: A Conversation Between Three Interns

In the most recent SHECP Talks episode, summer 2023 intern Dora Kreitzer ’25 interviewed two other Bucknell SHECP interns, Da’Mirah Vinson ’26 and Lissandro Alvarado ’25 about their experiences with the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) internship program. Both Vinson and Alvarado interned at Foundation Communities in Austin, Texas, a non-profit which provides affordable homes, free on-site support services, and community resources such as college application assistance, tax advice, healthcare, and housing. Alvarado was an intern there in 2022, Vinson in 2023. In the summer of 2023, Alvarado was one of three participants in SHECP’s Policy & Nonprofit […]

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Posted by on November 5, 2023

Wednesday, April 5th, 2023

Academic Engagement at SCI Coal Township: Physics Professor Tom Solomon

Dr. Tom Solomon, Presidential Professor of Physics, is currently teaching UNIV 232, Science Technology and Society, a Community-Engaged Learning course that explores the effects science and those that study it have on society. What makes this course so special is that it is an Inside-Out course, which means that the course is taught in a correctional facility. Solomon travels to the State Correctional Institution (SCI) in Coal Township with 12 Bucknell students, here referred to as outside students, to teach them and 12 incarcerated students, referred to as inside students. As of this semester, the inside students will receive course […]

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Posted by on April 5, 2023

Saturday, March 25th, 2023

A Reflection from Baltimore: The Value of Community

The following is a TA reflection from the half-credit CEL course Food, Faith, and Justice.
What a week it has been! I am so glad that I have had the opportunity to come to Baltimore for Food, Faith, and Justice a second time. This week was filled with meaningful conversation, learning, connection, joy, and laughter.

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Posted by on March 25, 2023

Sunday, February 26th, 2023

An Update to the Community Based and Engaged Learning Courses Language

The biggest change in the language is the addition of points 5 and 6 in the CBL course definition and points 6 and 7 in the CEL course definition. These additions come from the work of the anti-racist pedagogy group, run through the TLC, which met in Fall 2022. The group recognized that the definitions were missing any anti-racism focus and goals, which is a key part of community engaged learning. As a result, members of the TLC course drafted a definition, then took suggestions from current CEL/CBL practicioners as well as members of the Engaged Bucknell Coordinating Council (EBCC).

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Posted by on February 26, 2023

Friday, February 17th, 2023

Academic Engagement into Performance: Theatre Professor cfrancis blackchild

cfrancis blackchild is a Bucknell theatre professor who “directs, performs, teaches, and writes for and about theatre”, according to her personal website. In her theatre work and scholarship, blackchild focuses on the social functions and impacts of theatre. She has a focus in her practice on Theatre and Social Change and Theatre of the Oppressed, specifically using interactive performance in the Forum Theatre Technique. Through a course in the fall, blackchild is bringing Forum Theatre to Bucknell, to be presented in “Can We Talk About It?”, performed in Tustin Theatre Feb. 17, 18, and 19.

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Posted by on February 17, 2023

Wednesday, May 4th, 2022

Academic Engagement in Action: Psychology Professor Chris Boyatzis

Dr. Chris Boyatzis is a professor of Psychology who focuses on Children’s and Developmental Psychology. At Bucknell, Boyatzis teaches two Community-Engaged Learning Courses: PSYC207- Developmental Psychology and PSYC320- Children’s Studies. Outside of his coursework, Boyatzis is a large proponent of civic engagement through his directorship of the Bucknell in Denmark summer program and his connection of students with Camp Koala: a camp for children experiencing death or grief. 

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Posted by on May 4, 2022

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