CCT Network

Recipient of 2009 Beacon Students Leadership Award for Best Program run by a Student Group at UMass Boston
Contents: Events Ahead,Past Activities, Rationale, Organization, Possible Additions


Alums and other members of the wider CCT Community who want to stay connected should send us their email address and also see and use:


Current Semester Schedule

Spring 2020

Monday, February 24: Developing Inclusive Spaces for Creativity and Engaged Participation

Sunday, April 5: Taking Ourselves Seriously Across the CCT Community

Monday, May 4 and Thursday, May 7: Community Open House: Spring 2019 Presentations by Students (Capstone Synthesis Projects, Reflective Practice Projects)

 

Spring 2019
Sunday, May 5, Journeys: Changing Our Schools, Workplaces, and Lives. A conference-workshop to mark 40 years of the Graduate Program in Critical & Creative Thinking

Monday, May 6, 12:00-9:30pm ET: Community Open House: Spring 2019 Presentations by Students


Past activities

 

Spring 2020

Spring 2019

Fall 2018

Spring 2018


Fall 2017

Spring 2017
Dialogue Series: Reflective Practice in a Changing World

Fall 2016
Dialogue Series: Reflective Practice in a Changing World

Spring 2016

Fall 2015

Spring 2015:

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2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

Rationale

1. The CCT Network serves to organize in a sustainable fashion personal & professional development, community building, and educational-innovation activities beyond the formal program of studies.
2. The CCT Network enacts the "bongo" [*] philosophy of students' education being supplemented by the involvement of alums and alums' education being continued by their involvement in the education of students. In this spirit the Network stimulates alum involvement as advisors of students, contacts for professional networking, participants in events, and organizers to make the Network self-perpetuating.

Basic Organization

(updated May 08, after CCT faculty review; updated May 18 to reflect changes in technology, people, etc.)
Core Organizers
Program Director (Peter Taylor), Assistant Program Director (Jeremy Szteiter),and 2-3 other volunteers drawn from the wider CCT community (= current students, regular faculty members, part-time faculty members, alums, and other allies/associates of CCT).

The core group

In time, the core group may extend its work so that it also

As support for the network activities, the Program will endeavor to