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Dickinson Announces Support for New Projects Connecting Learning to Community Engagement
Aisha Johnson 20 teaches Chinese to young learners at the Dickinson College Children s Center through the Russian department s internship program in 2019. The program is currently being expanded and formalized.
Twelve civic-education projects move forward with CCLA funding
This spring, the Center for Civic Learning & Action (CCLA) is supporting 12 emerging and expanding faculty- and staff-led projects that empower students to work toward the common good in a variety of ways.
The projects are funded through the college’s Civic Engagement Fund, supported by a generous Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant, and they span the spectrum of subjects in the humanities, sciences and arts. Each provides a framework for students to apply what they’re learning in class to problems and projects in the local community.
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UMA prison education partnership to expand after receiving a nearly million-dollar grant
The grant will help hire a new director, expand the humanities classes offered and allow UMA to purchase new technology for the program.
AUGUSTA Daniel Porter never envisioned wanting to be any type of educator.
But after taking college courses to gain his bachelor’s degree while incarcerated at the Maine State Prison, he had new goals in mind.
Daniel Porter, 33, is in prison Thursday, serving a 16-year sentence for manslaughter. He is taking classes to gain a college degree as part of the Prison Education Partnership Program through the University of Maine at Augusta.