Please join us on Thursday, June 18, from 3-4:30 pm EST, to discuss the progress of your syllabus development and to prepare for teaching your upcoming social action course or workshop.
Agenda
1) Introductions — Introductions and put questions in the chat that you have.
2) Updates to Model: SML’s 7 Weeks and Go!, Bobby’s 3-pager, Demand & Target Prompt, and Student Companion Guide
3) Discipline-Based Breakout Groups — Then, we will break into discipline-based groups to share your draft syllabus with colleagues and discuss:
- Where have you placed the “active parts” of the social action model (i.e., Issue Development, Building Power, and Campaign Launch) versus the "reflective parts" (Setting the Tone & Group Dynamics, Theory, and Research)?
- What social action books, readings, and assignments do you plan to use?
- What discipline-specific readings have you incorporated?
- Other questions?
4) All Group Discussion — We will then gather as a whole group to discuss general questions about teaching social action, such as:
- How will you track the progress of student campaigns in real time in order to get to a Campaign Action?
- Will student campaigns focus on a specific issue or be open-ended for students to choose?
- What will be the minimum size for your student campaigns?
- Will campaigns occur on campus, off campus, or both?
- How often will students get the chance to meet in their groups to discuss their campaigns in class?
- Other questions?
5) Upcoming Things to Do
- Please send your completed syllabus to Scott in the coming weeks, so we can post it on your course link.
- SML can Zoom into your class—best time, after students develop their targets and demands.
- Have your students fill out Student Campaign Form (possibly put into your syllabus and give extra credit for it). We will send you recommendations; it is up to you whether you share them with your students.
- Come to the two Zoom Meetups planned for Fall ‘26
- Invite your students to attend the Fall ‘26 Summit on College Student Social Action. Possibly include this invitation in your syllabus (extra credit?)
Register Here
Registered
Name | Semester teaching | Course Title | School | Created time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ali Schaeffing | Fall 2026 | Gen Ed capstone: Innovating to Impact | Russell Sage College | Mar 4, 2026 2:21 PM |
Ashley Newby | Spring 2027 | Applied Anti-Black Racism | University of Maryland, College Park | Apr 15, 2026 2:27 PM |
Brandie Pugh | Fall 2026 | Victimology | West Virginia | Mar 9, 2026 2:29 PM |
Carla Guerron Montero | Spring 2026 | Decolonizing Knowledge through World Anthropologies | University of Delawre | Jan 11, 2026 10:22 PM |
Craig Talmage | Fall 2026 | MGMT 220 - Social Innovation | Hobart & William Smith | Apr 28, 2026 1:26 PM |
Diane Bessel | Fall 2026 (Planned) | Social Action for Community Change | Daemen Universitu | Apr 21, 2026 11:20 AM |
Dr. Edwina Jackson | Fall 2026 | Policy I & Policy II | Johnson C. Smith University | Apr 2, 2026 9:33 PM |
Dr. Janice B. Wharwood | Fall 2026 | Social Work Policy | Florida Memorial University | Apr 22, 2026 1:21 PM |
Eiko Strader | Fall 2026 | Gender and Public Policy | George Washington University | May 5, 2026 2:19 PM |
Elycia Daniel | Spring 27 | Guns and Society | Clark Atlanta University | May 11, 2026 9:30 PM |
Erin Elliott | Fall 2026 | Engaging Local Policy: Street Level Democrcacy | The Evergreen State College | May 27, 2026 5:57 AM |
Fadoua Loudiy | Fall 2026 | Civil Discourse DEI Designated Course | Slippery Rock University | May 12, 2026 4:32 PM |
Gina Finelli | Fall 2026 | SOC 281: Special Topics in Sociology - Fighting Back: Designing Resistance for Democratic Backsliding | Anne Arundel Community College | Apr 1, 2026 4:47 PM |
Helen Rosko | Fall 2026 | Political Geography | Georgia Southern University | Apr 15, 2026 1:54 PM |
Ian O'Byrne | Fall 2026 | Unmuted: Making Meaning and Finding Joy in the Hard Work of Learning | College of Charleston | May 6, 2026 3:12 PM |
Jackie Leung | Spring 2027 | Health and Social Policy | Linfield university | May 6, 2026 6:04 PM |
Jennifer Klauth | Fall 26 | Social Work Seminar | University of Olivet | Mar 2, 2026 7:44 PM |
Jennifer Klauth | Fall 26 | Groups and Organizations | University of Olivet | Jan 11, 2026 6:05 PM |
liz canfield | Fall and Spring | Introduction to Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies | virginia commonwealth university | Apr 22, 2026 6:45 PM |
Mahtaub Golab | Fall 2026 | Sustainability Outreach and Social Action | Santa Monica College | Apr 20, 2026 8:43 PM |
Meagan Call-Cummings | Summer 2026 | Participatory Action Research | Johns Hopkins University | Feb 24, 2026 8:32 PM |
Megan Smith | Fall 2026 & Fall 2027 | The Experience of Loneliness | University of North Carolina Charlotte | Mar 28, 2026 2:49 PM |
Melissa MacDonald | Fall 2026 | Social Problems | BHCC | May 29, 2026 6:47 PM |
Nicole Oehmen | Fall 2026 | The Sociology of Joy | Shenandoah University | Apr 15, 2026 12:37 PM |
Othelia Lee | fall 26 | Foundation of Social Work | UNC Charlotte | May 6, 2026 4:52 PM |
Pam Saylor | Fall 2026 | Institution Social Welfare | Purdue University Northwest | Apr 15, 2026 2:55 PM |
Patricia Linner | unsure | L110 Introduction to Labor Studies: Labor & Society | Indiana University | Apr 15, 2026 3:35 PM |
Patricia Linner | unsure | L110 Introduction to Labor Studies: Labor & Society | Indiana University | Apr 15, 2026 3:34 PM |
Sarah Jane Brubaker | Fall 2026 | Social Action and Justice | Virginia Commonwealth University | Apr 15, 2026 12:49 PM |
Schantell Williams | FA 2026 | Public Health Advocacy | San Jose State University | Apr 22, 2026 10:17 PM |
Scott Myers-Lipton | no more.... | Social Action | San Jose State University | Apr 15, 2026 6:10 PM |
Tajma Cameron | Spring 2027 | Empowering Science Learners: Designing and Enacting Culturally Sustaining STEM Social Action Campaigns | Morgan State University | Apr 15, 2026 3:48 PM |
Tess Clancy | Spring 2027 | Topics in Preservation and Social Action | Amherst College | Apr 19, 2026 11:00 PM |
Tracy L Humphrey | Fall 2026 | Social Welfare Policy and Programming | University of Memphis | Jan 11, 2026 10:15 PM |
Travis Cronin | Fall 2026 | SWRK 180 Macro Seminar | Fresno State University | Apr 15, 2026 4:25 PM |
Tristan Sharratt | Spring 2027? | Disease Detectives | Binghamton University | Apr 17, 2026 3:05 PM |
Victoria Charles | Fall 2026 | Sustainability Outreach and Social Action | Santa Monica College | Apr 17, 2026 5:42 AM |