Schedule of Events
3 p.m. – Student Research Colloquium
5 p.m. - CCCSI Community-Based Organizations Fair, McConnell Living Room
6 p.m. – Cocktail Reception and Student Poster Display followed by Anniversary Dinner and Awards (RSVP required for dinner)
Program
Alex Juhasz: Media Praxis
This course looks at the history of media praxis (the integration of theory and practice through the media arts and in relation to projects of self and world changing) and then provides an opportunity for students to engage in the community. This year we joined with UnCommon Good, a community youth- based program in Claremont. Students collaborated to produce blogs that would highlight UG’s efforts with Teen Green, a youth environmental group and Teen Green's most recent project, building a Super Adobe community center. Student participants: Michelle Aspis, Soo Bae, Whitney Jackson, Jennifer Johnson, Evan Kaplan, Marissa Kitazawwa, Stephen Lee, Caitlin Pierce, Eric Stern, Thomas Tsai.
Ethel Jorge: Spanish 31: Community-based Spanish Practicum
This course integrates the formal instruction of Spanish with participation in the community of Ontario. Students are immersed in a community of Spanish-speakers by visiting host families in a nearby neighborhood and participating in the daily life of the family and the community. By contextualizing instruction and learning in local Spanish-speaking environments and involving all participants in the process, we hope that this effort will also have a community-building effect. Student participants: Jane Phillips, Olivia Pollock, Community Promotora.
Dipa Basu: Youth and Youth Resistance
This seminar involves students in the exploration of the causes and consequences of social issues confronting young people. We emphasize public education, the criminal justices system and drug abuse/health issues. This seminar is heavily embedded in service-learning, as an experiential learning program which integrates academic course work into community service. Two student groups present on their community-based experiences at two primary partner sites.
Camp Afflerbaugh-Paige: a local juvenile prison
Zoe Adler, Ian Barr, Jordan Hill, Ryan Hyman, Sam Keene, Tom Pepe, Susy Sobel
Prototypes: an inpatient rehabilitation center for women
Nick Cinelli, Alexandra Cramer, Jennifer Lowe, Maddy Noble, Sara Phillips, Emily Rubin
Tessa Hicks: Social Change Practicum
This class centers around an intensive internship and community immersion experience that provides focused exposure to the roles particular agencies play in addressing urban issues and an experience in playing an active role in local communities. In addition this course explores strategies and narratives around community building and social change through an engagement with texts, interactive activities, guest speakers and field trips. Student presentations include:
Ben Rubin: "Facilitating Social Change"
Allison Ritter: “KidCare: Igniting Hope for Social Change”
Amy Glasser, Jessica Gould, and Olivia Pollock: “Artisan, Language, and Health Education with Day Laborers”
Leora Aquino and Leticia Grosz: “The Challenges of Service-Learning”
Jessica Weston: “Public Scholarship and Prototypes”
Jose Calderon: Restructuring Communities and Qualitative Methods
This course examines how Latino and multi-racial communities in the region are being transformed through global and local economic restructuring. The issues of community building and participation in the informal economy are brought to life through service learning or participatory research projects with transformative spaces where new communities are being created in the Inland Empire region.
Art/Pictorial Exhibit Project:
Evan Kelley, Janessa Flores, Cassie Lapkin, Isabela Paterlini, Valentina Martinez
Rancho Cucamonga ESL Project:
Laura Schreiner, Liliana Kimbell, Jack Slaughter, Angela Woods, Melissa Chen, Korin Nadelle (ESL at Pomona Day Labor Center)
Labor Network Project:
Paul Waters-Smith, Sam Pashall
Bike COOP Project:
Vivianne Brown, Ramon Martinez, Julie Tate
Health and Soccer Project:
Liz McAllister, Kaitlin Swarts
Camp A-P Project:
Salam Said
Since its founding in 1963, Pitzer College has been committed to teaching students to be responsible citizens of communities both locally and globally by applying the study of liberal arts to concrete actions that benefit others. With the generous support of two major contributors, the W.M. Keck and James Irvine Foundations, Pitzer established the Center for California Cultural and Social Issues (CCCSI) in 1999 to further this commitment. CCCSI was founded as the college's hub for connecting students, faculty and communities in partnership for engaged scholarship. CCCSI supports innovative community-based projects by offering research awards and fellowships to faculty, staff, and students. It also fosters relationships with dozens of community-based organizations and local institutions that address a variety of social and cultural issues with our local communities. In turn, the Center's community partners present faculty and students with extraordinary opportunities to engage in applied problem-solving activities. CCCSI works in the community creating partnerships, not to dispense "expert" solutions to pre-defined needs, but to identify and engage resources--both human and material--within the community. It has grown tremendously in its ten years at Pitzer; this semester alone, 287 students participated in Social Responsibility courses that took them into the community for experiential learning and engaged scholarship.
Symposium Hosts:
Tessa Hicks, Interim Director
Sandra Mayo, Assistant Director
Tricia Morgan, Administrative Assistant/Urban Fellow
Lolly Beck-Pancer, Post-Baccalaureate Urban Fellow
Carmen Uriarte, Post-Baccalaureate Urban Fellow
Debbie Lieberman, Post-Baccalaureate Urban Fellow
Center for California Cultural and Social Issues
Bernard Hall - Pitzer College
1050 N. Mills Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
Telephone: (909) 607-8183
Email: cccsi_staff@pitzer.edu