{"id":40,"date":"2017-08-04T11:53:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T16:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2017-09-16T10:22:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T15:22:15","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_pb_fullwidth_section et_section_regular et_pb_section--with-menu et_block_section\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_fullwidth_header et_pb_fullwidth_header_0 et_hover_enabled  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_pb_header_with_image et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_fullwidth_header_container left\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"header-content-container 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href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/participants\/\">Participants<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_mobile_nav_menu\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mobile_nav closed\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"mobile_menu_bar\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_1  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_section_regular et_block_section\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  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Given this present state, we believe that \u00a0community-based learning and research practices offer us the ability to recognize the humanity of all individuals, families, neighbors, and co-workers whose lives are influenced by immigration. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Engage Immigration offers a space for scholar-teachers from various disciplines to share and learn from each others\u2019 use of community-based research and teaching\/learning strategies that focus on issues falling under the broad umbrella of \u201cimmigration.\u201d We hope this space will encourage interest in and collaboration on public scholarship that improves the reception of immigrants and refugees, while at the same time highlighting best practices for scholar-teachers\u2014particularly those at liberal arts colleges\u2014interested in both immigration and community engagement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ties that bind us, then, are simply our interest in immigration and our interest in community-based inquiry. \u00a0So if you are an educator who is interested in<strong> community-based learning, teaching, and research practices revolving around immigration<\/strong>, engageimmigration.org is for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More details?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thanks to a grant from the ACM (Associated Colleges of the Midwest), during the 2017-2018 school year we will participate in four video discussions regarding our past and present community based learning and research experiences. \u00a0These discussions will include conversations about both triumphs and pitfalls in on-campus, domestic off-campus, and international off-campus study. \u00a0We will (of course) blog on engageimmigration.org about these conversations! \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, in June 2018 we will host a conference open to all ACM faculty in Northfield, Minnesota to share more information about the lessons we have gleaned throughout the year, hear from a leading national expert, and hopefully learn more from you too. \u00a0Please plan on joining us! \u00a0(For faculty members unable to attend, though, we will post the conference proceedings on engageimmigration.org.) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ultimately, we endeavor to learn from one another, propose to share our best collective insights and practices, and hope to develop a more visible network of community-based scholars interested in studying immigration in an ethical and effective manner.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1539,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-template-blank.php","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}