HECUA Professional Education Workshop Series Slated for 2001-2002

• Five workshops will be offered in the Twin Cities to provide innovative learning experiences.

• Themes will include: Public Art: Urban Spaces: Exploring Sense of Place; City as Text; Designing experience-based learning (one focused on urban education, the other on poverty and housing); The City and the River: Navigating the Tributaries; Urban Environment: Diversity as Resource.

• Workshops are being promoted to faculty development directors, faculty in our existing network, board members, new faculty contacts, alumni and people within our expanding community network.

• Call for more information or to register.

St. Olaf Faculty Seminar Planned for August

• Part of St. Olaf’s three-year project to create innovative ways for students and faculty to explore issues of diversity within the academic core of the curriculum.

• 8-10 St. Olaf faculty will familiarize themselves with community resources while they design new interdisciplinary Freshman J-term courses that include a two-week urban experience.

Workshop on Experiential Education Provided for Williams College Faculty

• Phil Sandro led a workshop on experiential education at Williams College, sponsored by the Williams College Guadino Scholars Program.

• Workshop was the result of the successful Williams J-term course in Guatemala, co-led by Alberto Rivera and Williams College professor Mark Reinhardt.

McKnight Foundation Awards HECUA Grant of $25,000 for Mississippi River Environmental Teaching-Learning Initiative

• Will support further development of a Twin Cities-based environmental studies course focused on the upper Mississippi River basin and related activities that will engage students, faculty and community resource people.

• Work on the project will begin this summer.

St. Paul Foundation Grant for Evaluation and Governance Projects

• Special $10,000 grant from the Management Improvement Fund of the Foundation to support non-profits seeking to make strategic changes in their organizations

• Grant will fund valuation and governance projects

• Foundation saw particular appeal in HECUA’s consortial approach and the role HECUA can play in bringing resources to the community

HECUA Says Farewell to Hamline, Move to New Office Complete

• HECUA hosted a farewell reception at Hamline prior to our move to new offices.

• Dean Garvin Davenport wished HECUA well and expressed Hamline’s pleasure in being able to house HECUA over these past 25 years.

• Amy Sunderland and Garry Hesser voiced HECUA’s sincere gratitude for Hamline’s support and provision of space.

• Beautiful, new office space is in full swing, all systems are up and running

HECUA Staff to be Part of Collaboration for Teaching and Learning Summer Institute

• Nan Kari will serve as core faculty for the Collaboration’s Summer Institute on Civic Engagement and Interdisciplinary Learning, which brings together teams of faculty from across the Midwest.

• HECUA’s involvement is a result of our significant work in interdisciplinary teaching-learning and our emphasis on preparing students for active civic engagement.