Exciting First Day Back: August 26, 2014

Our first day of class is complete for the new 2014-2015 year and the “welcome back” and “how was your summer?” questions dissolved quickly into one of the most productive sessions to date. With a smaller cohort it is always interesting to predict the general mood and productivity level of the class with a high level of uncertainty. However, luckily, this was not the case. We jumped right back into one of our most planning-intensive events to date with immediate delegations of class members into small groups (committee-esque) each taking on different roles in our upcoming Periclean-in-Residence.
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A long-term legacy of Periclean involves the integration of our correspondence with partners and long-distance organization into the on-campus, out-of-class conversations about relevant topics we study. For us, our week full of exciting events involves five key players: our two partners Maggie Ducayet and her husband of Summit in Honduras, Karen Godt of Hope for Honduran Children, Dr. Carmen Monico of the Human Services Studies program and Guatemalan native, and a representative of the UNC Greensboro Center for New North Carolinians.
(Read more about this great program here: http://cnnc.uncg.edu/sustainable-communities-regional-planning-project/)
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This is the promotional flyer for the Periclean-in-Residence Panel
The class schedule surrounded three main points of focus: Logistics, Goals and Additional ideas. Primarily, we tackled ironing out specific details regarding the itinerary for our guests and their accommodations, such as the classes they would address, who they would be meeting with and the content of their discussions and presentations. After deciding on UNG Center for New North Carolinians, who focus on the post-immigration and assimilation process into resident life in North Carolina, as our final panel speaker we decided on a theme for the panel: Poverty, Injustice and Immigration in Central America. The more broad and encompassing title we felt enabled a larger picture for the discussion and would enable all expertise of each guest to be well represented.

We will continue more extensive planning with detail to come!!! And will continue next week with decisions about the roles of committees this semester and future events!
And just one more photo of our successful small group efforts hard at work! Great job guys

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