SMC Community Teach-In Fall 2024
Teach-In Theme: Mobility, Migration & Movement
Sponsored by the Global Citizenship Committee
Tuesday, October 29, 2024- Hyflex- 1-3pm
Apply by Wednesday, October 23 at noon
As a campus, students, faculty and staff are coming together for a Teach-In.
What's a Teach-In?
It is an educational, interactive forum where people come together to focus on and discuss a topic.
What's the Teach-In theme?
The theme of the Teach-In is Mobility, Migration & Movement. Each word making up the theme is open to the presenter's interpretation and understanding. For more information about the theme, please click here.
We invite you to participate in the Teach-In by tapping into your personal, academic and/or professional knowledge and presenting on an issue relating to the theme of Mobility, Migration & Movement.
What's the purpose of a Teach-In?
A Teach-In is meant to be practical, participatory, empowering, and action-oriented. In 1965, the first Teach-In was held at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Its focus was on the U.S. government's involvement in Vietnam.
When is the Teach-In?
The Teach-In will be held on Tuesday, October 29 from 1-3pm in room tbd. The event will be hyflex, which means that you can participate both in person and virtually.
How do you participate?
You are free to address the Teach-In topic however you'd like. For example you can:
- Give an informational talk
- Lead a conversation
- Put together a panel
- Debate
- Perform poetry
- Perform a musical performance
- Show a video clip
How do I sign up?
Sign up by clicking on this link. For any questions, please email Dr. Delphine Broccard, Chair of the Global Citizenship Committee.
Previous Teach-In themes:
- 2023: Environmental Risk, Refugee & Resilience
- 2022: Risk
- 2021: The New Fight for Human Rights in a Time of Perpetual Emergency
- 2020: Human Rights & The Pandemic