Our Work
The CEIH initiative has:
- Collaborated with faculty to brainstorm ideas for, curate, implement, and fund intensives
- Collaborated with community organizations to develop new partnerships
- Funded exploratory ideas for intensives
- Sponsored events associated with intensives and to increase community engagement
Please read below for details of our work.
FALL 2022
DANC, Dancing to Connect
SUMMER 2022
SPRING 2022
INTENSIVES:
EDUC 282, Community Schools Research and Practice
EDUC 283, Our Lives, Our World. Teaching and Learning About Human Rights Alongside Youth
EDUC 281, Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities, Spring 2022.
FALL 2021
INTENSIVES:
EDUC 261, Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration
EVENTS:
Prof. Tania Mitchell, Community Engagement in the Wake of Pandemics: Lessons Learned from George Floyd Square (Series: Transformative Partnerships and Our Shared Futures: Campus-Community Learning Ecologies)
SUMMER 2021
EXPLORATORY PROPOSAL:
Community-Based Research, Community Fellows Position
Memorial Activism, Community Fellows Position
SPRING 2021
INTENSIVES:
[EDUC/ AFRS] 215 Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities
[MUSI 290] MakerBoards: A Return to Play
[FFS 290] French Language Lessons
FALL 2020
INTENSIVES:
CLCS/HIST 281 Fundamentals of Grantwriting
RELI 290 Life in a Buddhist Monastery
CLCS 281 Local Legal Challenges
SUMMER 2020
EXPLORATORY PROPOSAL:
Court Watching, Community Fellows position
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
Community-engagement during COVID-19, Pedagogy in Action Workshop
Fusion Course: Enhancing online education through community-based learning
SPRING 2020
INTENSIVES:
CLCS/HIST 281 Fundamentals of Grantwriting
EDUC 211 Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration
MUSI 290 Music For Empowerment
FFS 290 French Language Lessons
OTHER COLLABORATIONS:
¿El Sueño Americano? — Curating an Exhibition about Forced Migration
March 2020 Vassar Alumnae/i Trip to the Civil Rights South
FALL 2019
INTENSIVES:
ENST 201 Class Without Walls in Nature
OTHER COLLABORATIONS:
New faculty orientation to city of Poughkeepsie