Urban update
The Community Learning Initiative, along with the Theater and Dance Department and the Science Center, sponsored a faculty development workshop entitled Pedagogies of the Real World: The Arts, Sciences and Social Justice in Action. Trinity Professor of Theater and Dance, Judy Dworin and Vassar Professor of Earth Science, Jill Schneiderman, presented their work to an audience of academics from Trinity and area colleges and universities. Dworin spoke of her work at the York Correctional Institute for Women, building a series of performance works that challenge often-held notions of inmates and prisons. Additionally, Dworin is beginning to integrate this work into courses and independent studies with Trinity students. Schneiderman spoke about how she became involved in helping to draft a water policy for the government of Trinidad and Tobago while working with women’s community groups there as part of a Fulbright fellowship. She discussed the need for scientists to work outside their “comfort zone” in order to help find solutions to social justice problems.
Trinity Associate Professor of Psychology Dina Anselmi presented at a forum on service-learning organized by the Hartford Consortium for Higher Education. Anselmi, who is also the faculty director for community learning at Trinity, spoke about the elements of Trinity’s program that have made the College’s academic collaborations with the community so successful. She also described a collaboration with the Hartford Middle Magnet School at the Learning Corridor that brought together students in her first-year seminar on children’s rights with eighth grade students at the middle school.
- Anonymous Dream Camp Summer and Academic Year Enrichment Program for Hartford Children
- Samuel Bailey, Jr. ’62, P’02 Warrington Foundation Scholarship Fund for Hartford-Area Inner City Students
- Bank of America Dream Camp Summer and Academic Year Enrichment Program for Hartford Children
- Paul J. Bilka ’40 Paul J. Bilka ’40 Neighborhood Scholarship Fund
- Diane and Richard P. Brainerd ’64 Trinity College Boys & Girls Club at the Thomas S. and Ann Johnson Building
- Bruce E. Colman ’71 President’s Fund for Urban and Global Programs Scholar Fund for Hartford Children to Learn to Skate at the Koeppel Community Sports Center
- Connecticut Humanities Council Gateway to the Humanities Instructional Program for Hartford Adults
- CVS Caremark Charitable Foundation Learn to Skate Program at the Koeppel Community Sports Center for Connecticut Children’s Medical Center School Students
- Susan D. and Frank M. Dunlevy P’11 President’s Fund for Urban and Global Programs
- Figure Foundation Student-Initiated Community Service Projects
- W. Whitney George ’80 W. Whitney George Fund for Urban and Global Programs
- The Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb Memorial Charitable Trust Moving Matters! Community Learning Class and Performance in Collaboration with the Parkville Community and Montessori Magnet Schools
- The Hartford Financial Services Group Alliance for Academic Achievement Scholarship Program for Trinity Students from Hartford Public High Schools
- Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Dream Camp Summer and Academic Year Enrichment Program for Hartford Children
- Hartford Wolf Pack Community Foundation Ryan Gordon/Hartford Wolf Pack Community
- Henkel of America Faculty and Alumna Initiated Science Mentoring Project at Bellizzi Middle School
- Courtenay M. and George S. Khoury P’11 President’s Fund for Urban and Global Programs
- Mary C. and Philip S. Khoury ’71 President’s Fund for Urban and Global Programs
- Victory G. and Alexander H. Levi ’67 President’s Fund for Urban and Global Programs
- Audrey H. and Daniel H. Meyer ’80 Meyer Endowment for Urban and Global Programs
- Shipman and Goodwin Merin Scholarship for Trinity Students from Hartford
- Versa Products Company Robotics Instructional Program for Hartford Dream Campers and Trinity College Fire Fighting Home Robot Contest
- Wal-Mart Hartford Park River Symposium
- Marie and John Zimmermann Fund Jones-Zimmermann Trinity Mentoring Program for Hartford Magnet Middle School Students
