Citizenship

from the U-M Ginsberg Center newsletter:

A Weekend to Last a Lifetime
A mini-course, focusing on transforming social activism into career choices after college, was offered to graduating seniors through an intensive weekend mini-course.  … Read more »

In aneffort to raise more funds, Kyle and I gave two presentation last week, one to Rackham Student Government and the other to the Michigan Student Assembly. RSG seemed to really like our project; MSA was a little harder to read. HOWEVER, we found out just yesterday that we got funding from both sources!

So now we are ready to start taking applications from interested students. I am developing a static web site on which to place our info and a downloadable app. I still need some details from my contact, susan Tucker of Newcomb College, as well as our own Beth Yakel, who has been so incredibly helpful and supportive in our attempts to make this project come to life. … Read more »

There are 300,000 of my co-religionists in Iran. They make up the largest religious minority in that country. Education is incumbent upon Bahá’ís. We are expected to build our capacity as human beings, in service to building a better world. Here in the States, us CIC-ers are guaranteed access to education, pending certain institutional, classist, racist structures that (God willing) we can all work to dismantle. I know we all value the right to higher education, because we are all here in graduate school. My brothers and sisters in Iran are systematically denied that right: