Celebrating Connected Learning

The fall symposium provided a means for students to share what they have learned throughout the semester. There were so many interesting connected learning experiences this semester that it’s impossible to share them all – but a few highlights were . . .

• A field trip to the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative. The mission of DSNI is to empower Dudley residents to create a vibrant, diverse, and high quality neighborhood. They sponsor community clean-ups, activities for families, housing development, economic development and much more. Students learned about community activism and human services work as they toured the facilities and spoke with several of the organizers. They learned how they can get involved to improve their own communities.




• Professor Romero’s class organized a Social Justice Forum in collaboration with the Multicultural Student Union, PRIDE, and the Donahue Institute for Values & Public Life. Students participated in a panel discussion to promote issues of justice both on campus, locally, and globally.




• Students in Experimental Design created and developed research projects to test a variety of hypotheses about people’s perceptions of social behaviors. They carried out the research using an international sample and got several interesting results. There will be more to come on this as the students will hopefully be presenting their results at an upcoming professional conference.