When first assigned her civic engagement project, Tawakoni was skeptical. What would she do? But, after talking over possibilities, she knew the perfect project: a poetry slam where she could share her own poetry about surviving domestic abuse. Tawakoni writes, “The reason I have chosen poetry to bring awareness to domestic violence is quite simple,… Continue reading
“I have learned much more than what I knew before about politics and this class served as a support group as well giving me hope for my brother to recover more.” Continue reading
This project focused raising awareness about the difference between hemp and marijuana, demonstrating the benefits of hemp, and aiding efforts to legalize marijuana. The student doing this put in over 80 hours of work, organizing multiple forums, movie nights, hemp jewelry making demonstrations, and information tables. Continue reading
One part of this project organizing a panel discussion with a political science professor, a philosophy professor and two community activists–one Jewish and one Palestinian–discussing the political situation in Palestine. The second part was an art project for which students painted and then displayed a “wall” to raise awareness about Palestine. Continue reading
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