Ways to extend connections and impact from studies in CCT/SICW

last update 3 July 2018

Connections

  1. Make sure that CCT has your personal email address before your umb student address stops working.
  2. Join and use google+ communities (like facebook groups), http://bit.ly/CCRPgplus and/or http://bit.ly/SICWgplus
  3. Arrange with others to meet occasionally or at a regular time on hangout at http://bit.ly/CCTbreakout1
    • (Models for these hangouts include a conversation over a glass of wine at the end of the workday or a dialogue via cellphone while out walking.)
  4. Participate in monthly Open House sessions hosted by the CCT Program in partnership with the CCT Network (if re-activated).
  5. Confer with a few others to re-activate the CCT Network as an alum-driven group, 2008 guidelines
    • (Suggestions for added activities of the Network include monthly open-forum dialogue on an issue of concern, contributing a monthly online article offering an individual perspective.)
  6. Let Peter Taylor know if you are preparing to launch research or writing projects, apply for doctoral programs, or make moves in your career so he will connect you with the current host of a "studio" of alums who have been joining with him to support each other on this.
    • (Joining the studio comes with expectation that you will learn to host and take turns to practice hosting, reflect on how it goes and improve. Caveat: Although joining the studio is a matter of self-selection, there is an optimal number for a studio. If the studio is at its maximum, newcomers may need to wait for a participant to withdraw [or become inactive] before being brought in.)
  7. Apply to participate in 4-day workshop organized by Peter, "Impossible to Simply Continue Along Previous Lines," Columbus Day weekend 2018, http://bit.ly/cprspace18
  8. Stay tuned for news here of a collective in formation of CCT alums and faculty for promoting and supporting each other’s individual personal and professional development – development which is necessarily grounded in our particular places and constituency building – and, for some of us, in ways of raising necessary income.

Impact

  1. Submit quote or testimonial or update for Impact of studies pages (CCT and SICW)
  2. Draw attention to syntheses and abstracts viewable on https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cct_capstone/
  3. (Local grads) Volunteer for evening or weekend working bee to unbind old syntheses so they can be scanned and added to the scholarworks collection
  4. Volunteer to run a session (or more) of a possible summer or winter Reflective Practice course, in which graduates would lead students/participants to learn and experience the processes and perspectives you have developed. Volunteers welcome to help coordinate the course (which could be for credit or not).
  5. Stay tuned for news here of a collective in formation of CCT alums and faculty for promoting and supporting each other’s individual personal and professional development – development which is necessarily grounded in our particular places and constituency building – and, for some of us, in ways of raising necessary income.
  6. Consider applying for the fairly new PhD program in "Global Inclusion and Social Development" in the School of the same name at UMB.
    This program welcomes practitioners from a wide variety of arenas who, with a social justice commitment, want to expand the range of voices and participants in change in work, education, social movements, and creative arts. That sounds like CCT. Also like CCT, the program of studies and faculty are flexible so as to accommodate students’ interdisciplinary students, with their core focus centering on transdisciplinary and action-oriented research. Global in the program’s name indicates that it seeks to attract students who are from abroad and/or want to stretch their understanding and impact beyond local work. Indeed, the program has some online courses and is considering the hybrid format CCT uses to bring students from a distance into regular class sessions. The student profiles suggest that the program focuses on inclusive disability practices and research, but in actuality that is just 20% of the student's primary interest area. Contact sheila.fesko@umb.edu to learn about information sessions. Sheila is also able to connect interested students with current students with similar interest areas.