Community College Course Redesign Institute in American Political and Social Thought

Community college faculty participants will support each other as they explore readings and discussion prompts based on the work of authors like Plato, Locke, Wollstonecraft, Phillis Wheatley, Publius, Tocqueville, Maria Stewart, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, W.E.B. Du Bois, Dr. King, and other works which reflect contemporary engagement with this tradition.

Fifteen community college faculty members will be invited to discuss how to courageously, truthfully, and productively address our nation’s struggle to live up to the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the promise of liberty and equality for all while ensuring that each individual in diverse community college classrooms can participate fully in these discussions. 

Two leaders who will help participants address how to create classrooms where students feel free to openly express themselves on political and social issues about which there is disagreement and how we can ensure that our courses help students acquire the tools they need to develop their own political understanding and agency.

The program is carried out in conjunction with The Great Questions Foundation and generously supported by a grant from the Teagle Foundation. If you have any questions about this event, please email Jonathan Gondelman at jgondelman@gojmc.org.