Students tour mangrove forests in Puerto Rico.
In support of Colgate’s strategic plan, the Max A. Shacknai COVE announced the availability of a new course development grants that promote civic education in the curriculum. These grants aim to provide faculty with the resources to offer students immediate opportunities to apply classroom learning to support or enhance the work of social change agencies.
April Baptiste, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, was awarded the course development grant this year to support her Caribbean Ecology course. She writes of the course:
When I decided to add a service component to my Caribbean Ecology and Environmental Concerns class, I envisioned using the physical environment to have students work alongside a community organization to achieve a particular goal that is set by the community partner. This decision was easy for me as I believe that service is one form of justice and wanted to provide the opportunity for students to think about justice in a different way – i.e. outside of the traditional judicial sense. Read more
