Teaching Social Action Across the Disciplines

Overview

Please join us on Monday, June 30, from 3-4:30 pm EST, to discus how we can mainstream the teaching of social action across the disciplines. Register below.

During this virtual meeting, we will divide into discipline-focused groups to explore how to integrate social action into the various fields—including environmental studies, humanities, social work, social sciences, and others.

If you're interested in attending this virtual meeting, please register below.

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Meeting ID: 302 990 7447 Passcode: action

Agenda

3:05-3:30 pm — Small Group

Break into discipline-focused groups (see below), and in the group, introduce yourselves, and then discuss:

How does your social action class connect to your academic discipline. For example, social action connects with the Social Work Standards or with Sociology's "sociological imagination."
Discuss how your motivation to teach social action connects to your discipline.

Write a brief statement (1-4 sentences) describing how social action aligns with your field of study.

3:30-3:50 pm — Large Group

Share your brief statement and what you discussed in the small group.

3:50-4:15 pm— Small Group

Work together to expand your brief statement. Choose one group member to write up a formal draft Discipline Statement in the coming weeks, and share it with your group for feedback. This person will also serve as the contact person for Bobby and Scott about your group. Our goal is to have each Discipline Group submit a 1-2 page “final version” to Bobby and Scott by August 15th for inclusion in our Companion Guide, website, to faculty who apply to the Institute, and Institutes.
If your Discipline Group has additional energy and interest, please consider the following possible next steps:

Present your Discipline Statement at a conference. Please share names of interested group members during the large group discussion
Develop the Discipline Statement into a monograph. Someone would need to volunteer to be an editor(s) and find contributors to write the articles. if interested, please share names of interested folks during the large group session.
Contact disciplinary conference organizers about hosting an Institute as a pre-conference event. If interested, please share the names of interested folks.
Other ideas? Please share in the large group.

4:15 pm -4:30— Large Group

Report out from the Discipline Groups; put names in the chat that signed up for the possible activities. Discuss the possibility of these Discipline Groups meeting in the future, and perhaps recruiting more TSA faculty.
Upcoming TSA Events:

Final Course Prep: August 14 (Th, 3-4:30 pm EST)
Zoom Meetups: Sept. 19 (Fr) & Oct. 30 (Th), 3-4:30 pm EST
Fall ‘25 Summit on College Social Action, Dec. 4 (Th), 3-5 pm EST
Upcoming Institutes: Notre Dame (9/27-28) Michigan State (10/9-10), St. John Fisher (Rochester, NY, 11/8-9), Virtual Winter (1/5-7, ‘26), College of Charleston (SC, 4/18-19, ‘26), Catholic University of Applied Sciences (Berlin, 9/24-25, ‘26), John Jay College (NYC, 10/24-25, ‘26)

Discipline Groups:

African American Studies: Kendell, Lucio, Prisca
Arts: Adrienne (3:30) and Laura
Community Engagement & Organizing: Adasa, Andreas, Anthony S., Ben, Ellen, Kristen P, Roland
Environment, Sustainability & Climate: Anthony L, Gillian, Gretchen, Lily, Maria P., Michael, Olivier, Victoria
Leadership Studies: Cheyenne, Eugene, Tracie
Public Health: Frecia, Jackie, Jenai, Jessie
Social Work: Addie, Cassi, Sacha, Tola, Helen
Social Enterpreneurship: Craig and Maimooma
Sociology: Amber, Katie, Teresa
Urban Studies/Affairs: AT and Emannuel
Women & Gender Studies: Lynn, Quinn, Sally
Only One: Architecture (Tess), English (Crystal)

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Registered To Date

Created time	Name	Email	Department	School	Title
Jun 17, 2025 7:34 PM	A.T. Harrison	harrisona@rhodes.edu	Urban Studies	Rhodes College	Assistant Professor
Jun 28, 2025 3:30 PM	Adasa Nkrumah Kofi Frimpong	adasankrumahkf@aamusted.edu.gh	Information Technology Education	AAMUSTED	Dr
Jun 9, 2025 5:03 PM	Adrienne Schwarte	adrienne.schwarte@maryvillecollege.edu	Fine Arts	Maryville College	Chair, Division of Fine Arts, Professor of Design
Jun 28, 2025 4:49 PM	Amber Kelly	Ber2544@hotmail.com	Sociology	Schoolcraft College	Instructor
Jun 24, 2025 6:49 PM	Andreas Richter	Andreas.Richter@khsb-berlin.de	DICO/Social Work	KHSB BERLIN	Research Assistant/PhD Scholar
Jun 21, 2025 5:46 PM	Anthony Levenda	anthonylevenda@gmail.com	Environmental Studies	The Evergreen State College	Faculty, Director of Center for Climate Action and Sustainability
Jun 24, 2025 5:38 PM	Anthony Siracusa	asiracusa@sjfc.edu	History	St John Fisher	Assistant Professor of History and Community Engagement
Jun 30, 2025 1:51 PM	Ben Little	b.little@uea.ac.uk	Politics	UEA	Associate Professor Media and Cultural Politics
Jun 24, 2025 1:46 AM	Casandra Coin-Sweeney	casandra.sweeney@tri-c.edu	Liberal Arts - English and Humanities	Cuyahoga Community College	Associate Professor
Jun 18, 2025 9:50 PM	Cassandra Simon	csimon@ua.edu	Social Work	The University of Alabama	Associate Professor
Jun 24, 2025 5:08 PM	Cheyenne Luzynski	Cheyenne.luzynski@mail.wvu.edu	Leadership Studies	West Virginia University	Associate Professor
Jun 24, 2025 4:59 PM	Craig Talmage	Talmage@hws.edu	Business Management & Entrepreneurship	Hobart & William Smith Colleges	Chair, Associate Professor, & Director of the Bozzuto Center for Entrepreneurship
Jun 25, 2025 3:38 PM	Crystal Harris	cdr02003@uca.edu	English	University of Central Arkansas	Assistant Professor of English
Jun 27, 2025 7:55 PM	Ellen Reese	ellenr@ucr.edu	Society, Environment & Health Equity	UC Riverside	Professor
Jun 27, 2025 5:05 PM	Emmanuel B. Boadi	eboadi@memphis.edu	Urban Affairs	University of Memphis	Dr.
Jun 30, 2025 12:47 PM	Eugene Pringle	pringle@american.edu	Educational Policy and Leadership	American University	Senior Professorial Lecturer
Jun 9, 2025 5:07 PM	Frecia Gonzalez	frecia.gonzalez@belmont.edu	Public Health	Belmont University	Faculty Fellow
Jun 20, 2025 4:53 AM	Gillian Grebler	gilliangrebler@gmail.com	Anthropology and Sustainability	Santa Monica College (& LA Southwest and East LA)	Faculty
Jun 12, 2025 8:17 PM	Gretchen Sneegas	gsneegas@uw.edu	Geography	University of Washington	Assistant Teaching Professor
Jun 10, 2025 9:25 PM	Helen Machin	h.e.machin1@keele.ac.uk	Social Work	Keele University	Dr
Jun 29, 2025 9:58 AM	Isabel Pla Julián	isabel.pla@uv.es	Applied Economy	University of Valencia	Gender matters
Jun 28, 2025 1:05 AM	Jackie L	Jleung@linfield.edu	Health, Human Performance, and Athletics	Linfield university	Assistant Professor
Jun 9, 2025 6:32 PM	Jenai Johnson	Jjohn554@jh.edu	Public Health, Nursing & Medicine	JHU	Assistant Director Academic Service-Learning
Jun 24, 2025 4:29 PM	Katie Pridgen	kpridgen@concord.edu	Sociology (and WGST)	Concord University	Associate Professor
Jun 25, 2025 11:55 AM	Kendall Deas	kddeas@mailbox.sc.edu	Department of African American Studies	University of South Carolina	Assistant Professor of Education Policy, Law, and Politics
Jun 9, 2025 9:20 PM	Kendall Deas	kddeas@mailbox.sc.edu	Department of African American Studies	University of South Carolina	Assistant Professor of Education Policy, Law, and Politics
Jun 27, 2025 5:01 PM	Kit-Bacon Gressitt		Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies	CSUSM	lecturer
Jun 24, 2025 8:50 PM	Kristen Pengelly	kpengell@depaul.edu	Communication Studies	DePaul University	Professional Lecturer
Jun 9, 2025 8:32 PM	Laura Napier	lvnapier@umich.edu	Stamps School of Art & Design	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	Lecturer I
Jun 25, 2025 3:05 PM	Lily House-Peters	lily.housepeters@csulb.edu	Geography/Environmental Sciences	California State University, Long Beach (CSULB)	Associate Professor
Jun 26, 2025 2:43 PM	Lucio Antonio Bianchi	bianchil@msu.edu	History	Michigan State University	Teaching Assistant/PhD Scholar
Jun 24, 2025 4:15 PM	Lynne Ford	FordL@cofc.edu	Political Science	College of Charleston	Professor
Jun 13, 2025 3:59 AM	Maimoona Sohail	maimoona.sohail@superior.edu.pk	Social Enterpreneurship Program	Superior University Lahore	SDG Executive
Jun 23, 2025 9:26 PM	Maria Alejandra Perez	maria.perez@mail.wvu.edu	Geology and Geography	West Virginia University	Associate Professor
Jun 26, 2025 10:15 PM	Michael Skladany	m.a.skladany@csuohio.edu	Criminology & Sociology	Cleveland State University	Senior Associate Lecturer
Jun 23, 2025 6:14 PM	Michael Skladany	m.a.skladany@csuohio.edu	Criminology & Sociology	Cleveland State University	Senior College Lecturer
Jun 16, 2025 2:24 AM	Olivier Dangles	olivier.dangles@ird.fr	Sustainability	PUCE - WASILAB ECUADOR	Dr
Jun 16, 2025 9:22 PM	Omotola Akinsola	makethemsmile@gmail.com	Social Work	Minnesota State Minnesota Mankato	Associate Professor
Jun 25, 2025 3:35 PM	Prisca Gayles	pgayles@unr.edu	Sociology and Gender, Race, and Identity	University of Nevada, Reno	Assistant Professor
Jun 11, 2025 9:27 PM	Quinn Houlihan	kmhlihan@memphis.edu	School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy/ Anthropology/ WGST	University of Memphis	PhD Student
Jun 30, 2025 7:02 PM	Roland Hwang	hwang.roland@gmail.com	American Culture	University of Michigan	lecturer
Jun 28, 2025 12:57 AM	Roland Hwang	hwang.roland@gmail.com	American Culture	University of Michigan	lecturer
Jun 27, 2025 6:11 PM	Sacha M Klein	kleinsa@msu.edu	Social Work	Michigan State University	Associate Professor
Jun 27, 2025 4:05 PM	Sally Eck	Ecks@pdx.edu	Women Gender and Sexuality Studies	Portland State University	Assistant Professor
Jun 20, 2025 3:55 PM	Sally Eck	Ecks@pdx.edu	Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies	Portland State University	Assistant Professor
Jun 24, 2025 12:15 AM	Sherry Breshears	sherry.breshears@ubc.ca	English & Cultural Studies	UBC	Lecturer
Jun 29, 2025 6:54 PM	Susan Munkres	smunkres@uvm.edu	Office of Community-Engaged Learning	University of Vermont	Director
Jun 26, 2025 12:25 PM	Teresa Camarines	teresa.camarines@dlsu.edu.ph	Humanities and Social Sciences	DLSU Manila	Academic Coordinator
Jun 26, 2025 7:53 PM	Tess Clancy	tesscl@umich.edu	Architecture	University of Michigan	Fellow
Jun 24, 2025 6:07 PM	Tracie Meyers	Tmeyers@jjay.CUNY.edu	SEEK	John Jay College of Social Justice	Assistant Professor
Jun 23, 2025 8:19 PM	Victoria Charles	charles_victoria@smc.edu	Earth Sciences	Santa Monica College	Professor
Jun 9, 2025 5:42 PM	Victoria Charles	charles_victoria@smc.edu	Earth Sciences	Santa Monica College	Full time Faculty