10/01/2019
Short notice on this, but if you're on campus and free the afternoon of Wed October 2, consider attending "A Challenge to the Notion of Service Revisited Thirty Years Later," featuring Nadinne Cruz, pioneer of community-based experiential learning in higher education (https://ccel.umn.edu/nadinne-cruz). The event is sponsored by the UMN Center for Community-Engaged Learning.
3:30-5:00pm
Wednesday 10/2
401 Walter Library
Register here (https://forms.gle/fpxnQP1qtbC6SBY59)
In 1989, Nadinne Cruz, an early pioneer in community-based
experiential learning in higher education, published the essay "A Challenge to the Notion of Service." In this groundbreaking piece, Cruz speaks about the contradictions and dilemmas of service-learning. Since that time, the field has evolved and the language of service-learning has changed to community-engaged learning. But have the practices we use in 2019 also transformed enough or are Cruz's early concerns about our
social realities, history and practice of community-based experiential learning still as valid as they were in 1989? Join us to hear Nadinne Cruz reflect on this in light of today's context and practice and engage in discussion with colleagues from across the Twin Cities grapple with the issues of reciprocity, power and privilege in community-engaged
learning.
As a pioneer of community-based experiential learning in higher education, Nadinne Cruz was Director of Stanford’s Haas Center for Public Service where she founded and directed the Public Service Scholars Program; executive director of HECUA (Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs; and Euge...
