Art in Action - Racial Unity Team

Summer 2024 COLA Fellowship Program 

The College of Liberal Arts (COLA) Global Racial and Social Inequality Lab (GRSIL) is hosting summer fellowship program for students enrolled in COLA majors. Rising COLA Juniors and Senior students with a passion for sustainable social justice and skills to promote positive change will be paired with a local organization to work for 6 weeks (dates may vary by host site). APPLY FOR ONE OR MORE OF THE  FELLOWSHIP HOST SITES. 

DESCRIPTION

Modality: Hybrid mostly remote with up to three classroom events being public. 15 hours per week.

Host Overview:
Our Mission is to advance relationships among people of different racial identities, increase understanding, and reduce racial bias in our communities. Our Vision is a future in which Granite Staters fully embrace, respect, and encourage racial diversity and unity so that New Hampshire fosters a genuine feeling of belonging for all who live, work, and visit here. https://racialunityteam.com

Project:
The Racial Unity Team's Governor’s Arts in Education Award Project which provides for students with sustained opportunities to hear a multiplicity of voices that round out a classroom’s curriculum and to share the experience and expertise of informed people in the community and across the nation, and it offers a platform for students to voice their lived experience and hopes for the future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50FTRL4w7lM.

The direct connection between students and their surrounding community has a two-fold effect; students begin to realize through their classroom learning experience that members of their community are not only interested in what they have to say, but also that they are willing to help.

Deliverables:
1. A power point report to the RUT leadership about the project and its results
2. A written article about the project for publication in local news media outlets (optional)

Have any questions? Email PJ.Lassek@unh.edu