This past Saturday, the Demanding Equality SSIR community, led by Dr. Melissa Ooten, toured the Moton Museum in Farmville, Virginia. The Moton Museum commemorates Moton High School where in 1951, the student body walked out in protest of unequal educational facilities; it later became part of the landmark civil rights case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Students toured the Moton Museum and had lunch in Shockoe Bottom at Bottom’s Up. This was a great opportunity for the students to see a historical site, in person.
Archive for September, 2009
This past Saturday, students from Spinning Your Web, Ready for Moore, and the Civic Engagement House, were led on a bus tour of Richmond and its neighborhoods, by Dr. John Moeser, fellow at the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement. The tour focused on lessons about poverty, race and revitalization in many Richmond neighborhoods, such as Jackson Ward, Windsor Farms, Ginter Park, Highland Park, Downtown, Oregon Hill, and the Fan. Students also stopped and toured Lumpkin’s Jail, a current archeological site in downtown Richmond.
To get to know other living learning communities and challenge themselves personally, Richmond students from across many living learning communities, took to the Ropes Course the past two Saturdays. Students were able to go on the University’s Odyssey Course on the intramural fields for free.
For the 2010 - 2011 academic year, there will ten different communities that students will be able to participate in. More information about all of these programs is available at the Living Learning Programs website.
There are six Sophomore Scholars in Residence programs available to rising sophomores for 2010 - 2011:
Demanding Equality: Activism in the South Since Reconstruction
Global Health, Infectious Disease and Human Rights
Leadership and the Common Good
There are four living learning and theme communities available to rising sophomores, juinors and seniors for 2010 -2011:
More information and applications will be available in mid-November.
