(NAME-MCE) Announcing . . . The Social Justice Training Institute "For Students Only"

[Carli Kyles]

Social Justice Training Institute
"The Student Experience"

July 19 – 22, 2007
San Jose State University

Deadline: April 15, 2007

What is the Social Justice Training Institute?
Since December of 1998, the Social Justice Training Institute has been providing
an opportunity for individuals committed to issues of inclusion to develop
their skills in the areas of dialogue and connectedness. Over 400 professional
colleagues have participated in this experience to date. We are now expanding
the experience to include an opportunity for students to gather and do some
"personal work" related to social justice issues. The institute is open to 60
undergraduate students on college and university campuses in the U.S. and
abroad. This advanced experience is for students who have done a fairly
significant amount of work on social justice issues. Six alumni will join two
or three SJTI faculty to complete the facilitation team.

Institute Format
The Social Justice Training Institute will provide an intensive developmental
opportunity for students to examine the complex dynamics of oppression and to
develop strategies to foster positive change on their campuses and in their
communities.

Students who attend the institute will be given the opportunity to explore the
identities that make up who they are and better understand the extent to which
these identities impact all they do. Through facilitated activities and
exercises along with small group dialogue, participants will engage in
conversations that will challenge and support them in their journey toward
understanding how they can each – individually – impact our global community.
To this end, each student will be asked to obtain a "partner" from their home
campus and to develop a Social Justice Commitment (SJC) detailing personal
growth goals, an intervention that will impact their home campus and ways in
which they can contribute to their community. The partner must be a faculty
member, staff member or administrator on the student's home campus.
Participants will work with their partner after the institute to continue their
growth process and to implement their SJC.

Additional information can be found at:  http://www.sjti. org/home_ student.html

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Vernon A. Wall
Author, Lecturer, Consultant
7 Logan Circle NW  #23
Washington, DC  20005

202 232 0462 home
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"I am in the world to change the world."
       Kathe Kollwitz, 1920

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Carli R. Kyles, M.Ed.
Visiting Lecturer & Coordinator-Beauchamp Apprentice Teacher Program at the
University of Nevada Las Vegas & Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy
CEB 366   702-895-5084
kylesc at unlv.nevada.edu

“Is the social function of the school to perpetuate existing conditions or to
take part in their transformation?”- John Dewey, 1935