Join a Renga!
Renga Learning Communities Rengas are a great way to connect with colleagues while exploring a question or topic that has the potential to improve our campus, benefit our community, and advance all of our professional skills and accomplishments. Of course, they are also a great way to have fun and get to know people!
Civic Engagement and Service Learning:
To participate in this community, contact: Emily.VanDette@fredonia.edu or Dawn.Eckenrode@fredonia.edu
Launched in Fall 2009, this group of faculty and staff have explored service-learning opportunities through webinars, circulated and/or summarized readings, and give-and-take conversations on classroom practices. Participants will develop a sense of community surrounding the overlapping needs and issues of civic engagement and academic settings and exchanged concrete ideas and methods for making those connections in their own work. Join the group this year and help define one or more focuses that meet everyone's immediate needs and interests.
Cross-Cultural Exchange:
To participate in this community, contact: Shazad.Mohammed@fredonia.edu or Guangyu.Tan@fredonia.edu
Launched in Fall 2010, this forum explores cross-cultural exchanges with our campus members from diverse backgrounds. We strive to promote dialogue around the unique requirements (i.e., needs, interests, and perspectives) posed by students, faculty, and staff of international origins, religion, and sexual orientation. Ideas from the first year include establishing community outreach efforts, mentorships, and living/learning communities fostering cross-cultural contact. Most importantly, we want to expand the existing resources to retain students and faculty from diverse backgrounds, who often face unique challenges as a part of our national community (e.g., maintaining status, visa issues, etc.).
Re-Imagining Social Identities at Fredonia:
To participate in this community, contact: Brian.Masciadrelli@fredonia.edu or Jennifer.Hildebrand@fredonia.edu
Interdisciplinary programs concerning social identities, such as Women's Studies and Multi-ethnic Studies, are undergoing a paradigm shift. The possibilities for re-conceiving these programs in imaginative and innovative ways that emphasize the intersectionality of identities and social justice are rich for our campus. There is also potential for the development of new programs (e.g., Queer Studies), as well as the need to build connections between these academic programs and student groups on campus (e.g., Pride, Women’s Student Union, Black Student Union, etc.). Students are welcome.
New Faculty Renga:
To participate in this community, contact: Robert.Deemer@fredonia.edu or Teodora.Cox@fredonia.edu
The New Faculty Renga is designed to introduce 1st and 2nd year full-time faculty to the SUNY Fredonia campus.
For further information, or to ask questions, please email Dawn.Eckenrode@fredonia.edu.