CCT News

24 February 2011

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Contents: Student matters, CCT community, CCT events, alums, other events, opportunities, resources, food for thought, humor

Student Matters


CCT Community

http://wumb.org
Race: A Social Construct or a Scientific Reality? Podcast of WUMB discussion based on new exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science
CCT's Peter Taylor and Nina Nolan, Chair, RACE Education Team, Boston Museum of Science
link to podcast (http://www.faculty.umb.edu/pjt/WUMBRace13Feb11.mp3)
see http://wp.me/pPWGi-id for Peter's reflections on the broadcast.

Engaging with Diverse Adult Populations--seeking more alums to share their reflections at the March 7 CCT open house (for no. VII in the continuing series Our Lives and Other Worlds). Email cctcoordinator@umb.edu if you might be willing.

Student presentations, March 10, 3.30-6pm, from the cross-campus course on Gender, Race & the Complexities of Science & Technology, co-taught by Peter Taylor and Sally Haslanger using a PBL format, http://www.stv.umb.edu/grst/CaseWerksey.html Visitors welcome (in person or by skype). At MIT, Bldg 56 Room 180

New Alum Mentoring Opportunities
The CCT faculty invite applications from alums to play an active role for a semester in mentoring/advising/assisting current students in a specific course. The role would be determined in conjunction with the course instructor, but we envisage that alum mentors would participate in many of the classes, contributing perspectives derived from having taken the class before as well as from connecting the class with their subsequent work and personal development. We can offer a modest honorarium of $400 to 1-3 alums per year with the expectation that alum mentors attend at least 2/3 of the classes and are available outside classes for consultation with students who want to get additional perspective on how to learn from the course. Applications can be submitted at any time. Please contact the Program Coordinator, Peter Taylor, if you want to discuss possibilities.

CCT Events

CCT Community Open House: Engaging with Diverse Adult Populations
Our Lives and Other Worlds VII: Reflections from CCT Alums
Monday, March 7; 6:45- 9:00pm, Wheatley W04-0148. Email cct@umb.edu to RSVP and for additional details. Refreshments will be served.

CCT Community Open House-- Rescheduled from snowed-out Feb. 1
Reflecting and Connecting for Lifelong Learning: Celebrating the Accomplishments of CCT
Tuesday, March 29; 6:45- 9:00pm
Wheatley W04-0148. Email cct@umb.edu to RSVP and for additional details. Refreshments will be served.
Come meet the CCT community! For this special open house, we'll start off the spring semester of 2011, we'll discuss successes and challenges and hear from a number of part-time and other faculty about their experiences with the CCT program.

Alum and CCT associates Notes

Ben Schwendener announces that APFELSCHAUN--New Episode is on the verge of release. Featuring Uwe Steinmetz, Bridget Kearney & Michael Calabrese, performing at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center on March 4th, with special guest Mark Zaleski (sax). We'd love to see you there!

Events

Concert commemorating Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire--http://circleboston.org/culture/chours.php?page=26144

Educational Bodies: The Performance of Gender and Sexuality in Academia. Graduate student conference at Harvard university, April 8, 2011.

Creativity, Play, and the Imagination will be held from May 26 through May 28, 2011 at Teachers College, Columbia University.

ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIVERSITY IN ORGANISATIONS, COMMUNITIES AND NATIONS
University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, 20-22 June 2011
http://www.Diversity-Conference.com

OD (Organizational Development) Network Conference 2011, October 30 - November 2, 2011, Baltimore, MD.
Request for proposed presentations

Women Take the Reel: A Film Festival Celebrating Women's History Month
March 3 through March 31, 2011. Several films screened at universities are free.
See the full program for film descriptions, details, and locations (mostly Boston and Cambridge)

Opportunities

Free on-line action research course, now sponsored by the Action Learning Action Research Assn (ALARA).
See http://uqconnect.net/action_research/areol/areolind.html

Free discussion series: Feminism and Dessert
First Thursday every month, 7:00-8:30pm, 344 Broadway, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Cambridge, MA
For details and calendar: http://www.bostonnow.org/Feminism_and_Dessert.html

Resources

seeds of our future: some first sprouts -- an overview by Otto Scharmer of the first five years of the Presencing Institute.

Evolving Men--Initial Results from the International Men and Gender Equality Survey, a comprehensive household questionnaire on men’s attitudes and practices – along with women’s opinions and reports of men’s practices – on a wide variety of topics related to gender equality, http://www.icrw.org/publications/evolving-men

newsletter of interest to CCTers: Edison's Notebook: Insights for Innovators

Food for Thought

http://www.publicagenda.org/press-releases/new-report-finds-a-majority-americans-feel-colleges-care-more-about-their-bottom-line-education-students

Daily writing: From a worthy discipline to a self-sustaining experience

The class dimension in Egypt's conflict: http://www.juancole.com/2011/01/egypts-class-conflict.html

Bradley Manning and his role in the wikileaked cables -- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/01/bradley-manning-wikileaks

Projection mapping onto a building (apologies for commercial sponsorship)

On developing a Growth Mindset among students

The Hermitary: Resources and Reflections on Hermits and Solitude

Humor

Essential headgear for protestors (or should this be food for thought?) -- http://boingboing.net/2011/02/04/essential-headgear-o.html