Please join us on Wednesday, August 14, from 3-4:30 pm, to discuss the final preparations to teach social action this academic year.
Below is the agenda and registration form.
Agenda
- Breakouts — Get into groups of three, then report back:
- What are you most concerned with about your class? Most excited about? If you like, take a moment and write them down before speaking
- All Group Discussion — Brainstorm with SML
- How will you help your students believe that change is possible?
- What is your plan to get students into groups during Issue Identification? Have you contacted community orgs? If not, brainstorm. If students are working with a community org, the students need to coordinate with the community organization they are working in solidarity with. The students should NEVER do a campaign action that the community organization doesn't agree with.
- Tell the community org that the students may not have time to attend many community events; if they can, great, but they are students who are busy and often these events are off campus. What they will do is to organize students to come to the student events which will be part of the overall strategy to convince the target to say yes.
- How will you make sure the demands are specific and quantifiable, and the targets are named?
- Are you clear about the difference between Campaign Activities from Campaign Actions? How will you help students be clear?
- How will you manage class time, as well as monitor student progress, to ensure students get to a Campaign Action?
- How do you plan to evaluate the student’s work? What will be done individually? As a group?
- Discuss Together — What do you still need to work on with your Syllabi?
- What Comes Next —
- Student Campaign Survey - possibly include as a class assignment or extra credit. Students fill out Student Campaign Survey 1/3rd of the way through the course. When SML receives target demands from students, he will send his thoughts/reflections, and you can do what you want with them.
- Update student campaign on TSA website (plan to build power (fliers, tabling schedule, meeting with student orgs), organizational raps, social media, press, etc. Possibly include updates as a class assignment or extra credit.
- Attend Dec. 4: Summit on College Social Action. Possibly include as extra credit.
- Faculty Attend TSA Zoom Meet-ups on Sept. 19 & Oct. 30
Participants
Name | School | Title | Department | Email | Course Title | When teaching? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Addie Campbell-Mungen | Albany State University | Assistant Professor | Social Work | addie.campbellmungen@asurams.edu | Foundational Values and Ethics | Fall 2025 |
Andreas Richter | KHSB Berlin | Research Assistant/ PhD Scholar | German Institute for Community Organizing (DICO) | andreas.richter@khsb-berlin.de | Social Action: Student Solutions for Challenges in the District or University | Winter 2025/26 |
Ashley Sanders | SVSU | Assistant Professor | Social Work | aasande1@svsu.edu | YS 311 Working with Juvenile Delinquency | Winter 2026 |
Barrett Bonella | Weber State University | Professor, BSW Program Director | Social Work and Gerontology | barrettbonella@weber.edu | Social Work Macro Practice | Fall 2025 |
Christopher Morrissey | Bluffton University | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | morrisseyc@bluffton.edu | Soc 330 Social Justice and Social Change | fall 2025 |
gillian grebler | santa monica college | faculty | Earth Science/Anthropology/Sustainability | grebler_gillian@smc.edu | Outreach and Social Action | Fall 2025 |
Gretchen Sneegas | University of Washington | Assistant Teaching Professor | Geography | gsneegas@uw.edu | GEOG 395: Climate Justice and Social Action | Fall 2025 |
Janice Wharwood | Florida Memorial University | Assistant Professor of Social Work | Janice.Wharwood@fmu.edu | Social Work Policy | Fall 2025 | |
Jessie Piper | Washburn University | Assistant Professor | Family & Human Services | jessie.piper@washburn.edu | Prevention & Social Change | Fall 2025 online & Spring 2026 in person |
Lily House-Peters | California State University, Long Beach | Associate Professor | Geography/ Environmental Science & Policy | lily.housepeters@csulb.edu | GEOG/ESP 450: Sustainability & Social Justice | Fall 2025 |
Marsita Ferguson | Baldwin Wallace University | Director, David and Frances Brain Center for Community Engagement | Community Engagementb | mlfergus@bw.edu | Brain Fellowship | Fall and Spring 2025-2026 |
Michael Downs | Bishop O’Dowd High School | Director of Justice and kinship | Sustainability and service learning | mdowns@bishopodowd.org | Solidarity in Action | Fall ‘25 and spring ‘26 (full year course) |
Roland Hwang | University of Michigan | Lecturer | American Culture | hwangr@umich.edu | Community Service & Learning | Fall 2025 |
Rosina Hassoun | Saginaw Valley State University | Professor | Sociology | rhassoun@svsu.esu | Social Action (pending SVSU approval) | Winter 2026 |
Sonja Taylor | Portland State University | Director of Senior Inquiry | University Studies | sonja22@pdx.edu | Power & Imagination | Fall 2025-spring 2026 |
Sydney Rittershaus | Northern Arizona University | Community Engagement Minor Graduate Coordinator | Sustainable Communities | sar567@nau.edu | Community Engagement Fieldwork Experience | Fall 2025 |
Tess Clancy | University of Michigan | Lecturer/Research Fellow | Architecture | tesscl@umich.edu | Topics in Experimental Preservation | Fall 2025 |
Tracie Meyers | John Jay College for Social Justice | Assistant Professor | SEEK | tmeyers@jjay.cuny.edu | Education and Justice | Fall 2025 |
Travis Cronin | Fresno State University | Associate Professor | Social Work | travis@mail.fresnostate.edu | Macro Seminar | Fall 2025 |
Victoria Charles | Santa Monica College | Professor | Earth Sciences | charles_victoria@smc.edu | Outreach and Social Action | fall 2025 |