Isakow hosts 'Fellow and Friends' luncheon for faculty
“Fellows and Friends,” a new lunch series for faculty hosted by the Institute for Public Engagement is the brainchild of associate director Norma May Isakow. The second in the series, “Engaged Teaching in a Global Context,” took place Tuesday, Feb. 28, from 11 a.m.-noon in Reynolda Hall, Room 301.
“Every engaged teaching course is about illuminating the human condition,” says Isakow. “If you, as a teacher, can create a course that grows out of a connection you have seen between a community need and your own discipline then you are making students part of the world in both a macro and a micro sense.”
“Civically engaged learning can be life changing learning,” says Isakow. “I know this first hand. That’s why I want students to have these kinds of experiences.” Read more
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