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Check out some of the articles written about our Community Engagement collaborations:
"Class Brings Together Writing, Film and Community Engagement" USC Dornsife News, 2016. An overview of Community Engagement classes, including how students use writing and video to tell the stories of formerly incarcerated people.
"Students Learn More Than Writing Working Alongside Former Prisoners" Daily Trojan, 2019. Discusses the benefits of taking a Community Engagement class, and how students in WRIT 150 learned about the lives and circumstances of formerly incarcerated people at Francisco Homes.
"Warrior-Scholar Project Aims to Help Veterans Make Academic Progress" Daily Trojan, 2017. Discussion of one-week course that helps veterans make the transition to college life.
"Writing Program Highlights ‘Stories from the Truly Free’ in Anthology" Dornsife USC News, 2018. Details the publication of 48th Street Anthology: Stories from the Truly Free, a publication from formerly incarcerated residents of Francisco Homes.
"Marine Veteran Says ‘Warrior-Scholar' Project Changed Her Life" NBC Los Angeles 2016. How the Warrior-Scholar project helped one veteran prepare for college.
“The changing demographics of student enrollment should impel educators to examine how we implement service learning, paying attention to our biases, expectations, and traditions. Without such examination, service learning can become part of what we call a pedagogy of
whiteness—strategies of instruction that consciously or unconsciously reinforce norms and privileges developed by, and for the benefit of, white people in the United States.” –Tania D. Mitchell, David M. Donahue, & Courtney Young-Law, “Service Learning as a Pedagogy of Whiteness”
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