I don’t know what is going to happen, in terms of us, the people, holding to solidarity, visionary actions, and sustaining our coalition and ourselves in the face of this brutal rising dictatorship in the U.S., but I do know this–those who are grabbing power are not waiting for the ballot. They are using bullets.…
Today, we are coming together to honor students in our program who are graduating with a RUCCAS degree. I was thinking about what it means to be a Rustin Urban Community Change Axis graduate. They will tell you in just a few minutes what it means to them, their philosophy statements or manifestos on liberatory…
I have been thinking about how we concerned with community change need a new approach that matches our current circumstances. I teach an Introduction to Community Change course. It’s a Humanities course, and I use a great book, Twitter and Teargas, by Zeynep Tefekci, as a core text, along with other readings and some films,…
Selected sample courses
ENG 400 Selling the Earth: Literature and Storytelling in the Age of the Climate Crisis
RUX 400 Urban Community Change Capstone
YES 300 Youth Empowerment and the Urban Context
RUX 110 Introduction to Urban Community Change
English 506, Critical Pedagogies and Literacies
…and lots and lots of First Year and Basic Writing!
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