CLCE 2014 Fall Semester Recap

CLCE 2014 Fall Semester Recap

From August through December 2014

 

AUGUST:

  • Port Richmond Leadership Academy Launches: 12 Port Richmond High School students became the first cohort of a three-year college access and leadership development program. This program is explicitly designed to deepen participants' academic abilities as well as their community capacity-building skills.
  • The Sound of Port Richmond: In its second year, Wagner College and Imagining America, alongside Port Richmond community members, developed a community theater project. This project seeks to facilitate dialogue on pressing issues within Port Richmond. This project provides a safe and neutral space for communal growth, and by bringing the College and community closer together in a mutual and beneficial way, seeking to spur positive action.
  • Bonner Leadership Orientation: Annually, the CLCE dedicates a week-long program that welcomes Bonner students, both new and old, to Wagner College.

 

SEPTEMBER:

  • MOVE sessions: An extension of the summer program with Wagner College athletes, MOVE is designed to help enhance student-athletes' academic learning and civic engagement capacity. Members of MOVE met weekly to discuss pressing issues while developing academic and leadership skills.
  • Port Richmond Partnership Leadership Academy Seminars: PRPLA students met on a weekly basis to deepen their academic and capacity-building skills.
  • Bonner Leadership Program Seminars: Students from the Bonner Leaders Program met on a weekly basis to reflect and discuss their experiences as leaders in the Wagner community and beyond.
  • Yoga and Meditation Sessions: Wagner College students enjoyed a series of relaxing sessions with yoga instructor Zusi Ziegler.
  • Constitution Day Celebration and Panel Discussion: Wagner College celebrated Constitution Day by spreading constitutional awareness in the Student Union during the day and a panel discussion in the evening. The panel discussion, a follow up to the Eric Garner incident on Staten Island, took place in the Gatehouse Lounge of Harborview Hall.
  • IMPACT Scholars Student Network Summit: The summit explored the theme "Entering and Exiting Communities" and featured a workshop led by the Urban Bush Women.
  • LC Tours of Port Richmond: Throughout the month of September, students from the freshman Learning Communities toured the Port Richmond community. Students learned about the community's history and Wagner's longstanding partnership within Port Richmond.
  • Mandela Garden Dedication Ceremony: Students of Port Richmond's New World Preparatory Charter School and members of LC1, LC4, and LC12 celebrated the legacy of Nelson Mandela by dedicating our on-campus leadership garden in his name. Dr. Ousmane Traoré, Dr. Lori Weintrob, and Wagner College History majors reflected upon readings from Mandela's autobiography, "Long Walk to Freedom." This event was followed by a seed planting ceremony in the garden -- a symbol of reflection and growth.

 

OCTOBER:

  • MOVE sessions: An extension of the summer program with Wagner College athletes, MOVE is designed to help enhance student-athletes' academic learning and civic engagement capacity. Members of MOVE met weekly to discuss pressing issues while developing academic and leadership skills.
  • Port Richmond Partnership Leadership Academy Seminars: PRPLA students met on a weekly basis to deepen their academic and capacity-building skills.
  • Bonner Leadership Program Seminars: Students from this program met on a weekly basis to reflect and discuss their experiences as leaders in the Wagner community and beyond.
  • Port Richmond Panel: The Port Richmond panel was hosted in Spiro 2, to prepare first year students for their community at Wagner College. The panel's topic was Art, Culture, and Public Spaces. CLCE Director, Samantha Siegel, opened the event by presenting Wagner's curricular overview and Port Richmond Partnership's framework and Dr. Lori Weintrob followed with an insightful presentation of the history of Port Richmond.
  • Social Justice Dialogues: A series of dialogues centered on current pressing social issues. These events are organized in collaboration with concerned students, and facilitated by The Center for Leadership and Community Engagement and Center for Intercultural Advancement.
  • Bonner Congress: Bonner Congress Representatives from around the country gathered at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. The mission of this national meeting was to develop "Big Ideas" and strategically organize around issues within their region and on their college campuses.
  • Port Richmond Friendship Dinner: Bonner Leaders attended the four-year anniversary of Port Richmond Friendship Dinners hosted by our partner organization Project Hospitality. For the past four years, the Friendship Dinners have convened people across differences in the Port Richmond community, in an attempt to stimulate productive dialogue.

 

NOVEMBER:

  • MOVE sessions: An extension of the summer program with Wagner College athletes, MOVE is designed to help enhance student-athletes' academic learning and civic engagement capacity. Members of MOVE met weekly to discuss pressing issues while developing academic and leadership skills.
  • Port Richmond Partnership Leadership Academy Seminars: PRPLA students met on a weekly basis to deepen their academic and capacity-building skills.
  • Bonner Leadership Program Seminars: Students from this program met on a weekly basis to reflect and discuss their experiences as leaders in the Wagner community and beyond.
  • Los Potrillos Restaurant remodeling by LC 2: Wagner College Freshman Learning Community, LC2, had been studying business and business ethics with local restaurateur Maria Morales. Guided by professors Amy Eshleman and Richard LaRocca, Wagner students helped give Ms. Morales a fresh look to her restaurant.
  • Staten Island Educational Partnership Planning Meeting - 30,000 Degrees: A Planning Retreat that engaged a wide variety of leaders and stakeholders in Staten Island--ranging from government, early childhood education, K-12 social services, local business organizations, local colleges, civic associations, nonprofits, and philanthropic organizations--with the common goal of increasing the number of Bachelor's degrees obtained in the borough-wide by 30,000 before the year 2025.
  • Social Justice Dialogues: A series of dialogues centered on current pressing social issues. These events are organized in collaboration with concerned students, and facilitated by The Center for Leadership and Community Engagement and Center for Intercultural Advancement.
  • Oxfam Hunger Banquet: At this interactive event, the place where one sits and the meal that one receives are both determined by the luck of the draw--just as in real life, some of us are born into relative prosperity and others into poverty. The event was planned in coordination with Oxfam International and Alpha Phi Omega.

 

DECEMBER:

  • MOVE sessions: An extension of the summer program with Wagner College athletes. MOVE is designed to help enhance student-athlete's academic learning and civic engagement capacity. Members of MOVE met weekly to discuss pressing issues, while developing academic and leadership skills.
  • Port Richmond Partnership Leadership Academy Seminars: PRPLA students met on a weekly basis to deepen their academic and capacity-building skills.
  • Bonner Leadership Program Seminars: Students from this program met on a weekly basis to reflect and discuss their experiences as leaders in the Wagner community and beyond.
  • Social Justice Dialogue: A series of dialogues centered on current pressing social issues. These events are organized in collaboration with concerned students, and facilitated by The Center for Leadership and Community Engagement and Center for Intercultural Advancement.
  • Sound of Port Richmond Workshops: Facilitated by SoPR president, Charnae Alexander, and with the guidance of Dr. Kevin Bott from Imagining America, a series of weekly workshops began at Faber Park Recreation House this month. These workshops aimed to prepare the Port Richmond community to establish a community theater company.
  • Special Campus-Dialogue: The CLCE and the Center for Intercultural Advancement--with special guest facilitator Dr. Kevin Bott, associate director of Imagining America--sponsored a student-lead discussion and reflection surrounding the Ferguson and Staten Island grand juries' decisions. The collaboration between both centers provided a supportive space where the students processed and expressed reactions, thoughts, and emotions. Further action is being planned for Spring' 15.
  • Bonner Holiday Party: A gathering to celebrate the spirit of the holiday season and reflect on the accomplishments and lessons of the semester.
  • NAC&U Civic Engagement Collaborative Planning Meeting: Participating campuses will collaborate in the planning of a community-based learning project. Working together with their community partners, these institutions will implement sustainable, action-based, civic engagement partnerships that address pre-K -12 education issues.

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