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Racialicious Crush Of The Week: Jakeya Caruthers

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by Andrea • October 19th, 2012

By Andrea Plaid Meeting one of my long-admired-from-afar writer/thinkers, Darnell Moore, over coffee-talk about gentrification and public transportation, I asked for suggestions for people I could interview for future Crushes. He said that he knew this sistah at Stanford University who taught a class on Afrofuturism. “Latoya’s taking a class on that as part of […]

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Design Thinking: Thinkers, Science and Practice

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by Cameron D. Norman • September 6th, 2012

If to think and be aware of those thoughts (to think about thinking) is a defining feature of what it means to be human, why is it such a challenge to think about types of thinking? An answer to that question might help explain why design thinking is so difficult to translate into action and […]

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How Serious Are We About Learning?

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by Cameron D. Norman • July 26th, 2012

When journalist and book author Daniel Pink tweeted the above image the other day it provoked thinking about what real learning means and what it takes to achieve it. We produce enormous amounts of knowledge, yet struggle to put it into use, but we also teach much and learn little because the systems we’ve designed […]

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Disruption by Design

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by Cameron D. Norman • March 13th, 2012

If we are to expect that the fields most connected to social action and the promotion of wellbeing are to contribute to our betterment in the future, they need to change. Disruptive design for programs, services and the ways we fund such things is what is necessary if these fields are to have benefit beyond themselves. Long past are the days when doing good was something that belonged to those with a title (e.g., doctor, health promoter, social worker) or that what we called ourselves (e.g., teacher) meant we did something else unequivocally (e.g., educate). Now we are all teachers, all health promoters, all designers, and all entrepreneurs if we want to be. Some will be better than others and some will be more effective than others, but by disrupting these ideas we can design a better future.

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(Un)Building a Mystery: Peeking Behind the Curtain in the Academic Land of Oz

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by Cameron D. Norman • December 16th, 2011

The gap between what academics do and what those outside of the academy think they do is enormous. The mysteriousness and elite status that universities enjoy may actually serve to undermine the very values of inquiry and education that it seeks to promote. In this second in series of posts on academic life, I take […]

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The Alien Shores of Academia: Requiem for A Dream

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by Cameron D. Norman • December 15th, 2011

Aside from the church, the university remains among the oldest continuous institutions in our society. Like the church, universities are facing challenges from massive changes in the way society views knowledge, authority and the role of the credentialed leader. This post begins a series of personal reflections looking back on a career in academia and […]

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Don’t be a fiend!

by mjd • September 29th, 2011

Young leaders envision saving a mid-sized American city.

At the end of July 2011, twenty-nine high school students from Springfield MA gathered on the campus of UMass Amherst for a three-day “Taste of College” youth leadership retreat.

Sponsored by the Mass Alliance on Teen Pregnancy, New North Citizen’s Council, and UMass’ Center on Communication for Sustainable Social Change (CSSC), with donations from Big Y (Amherst), Whole Foods (Amherst), the North End Campus Coalition, and Amherst Community Television (ACTV).

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Springfield Plus

by mjd • September 29th, 2011

Young leaders envision saving a mid-sized American city.

At the end of July 2011, twenty-nine high school students from Springfield MA gathered on the campus of UMass Amherst for a three-day “Taste of College” youth leadership retreat.

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Mad about Whack

by mjd • September 29th, 2011

Young leaders envision saving a mid-sized American city.

At the end of July 2011, twenty-nine high school students from Springfield MA gathered on the campus of UMass Amherst for a three-day “Taste of College” youth leadership retreat.

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