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Global Issues and Diversity - Maryville College

Service | Academic Work | Education & Training | Capacity Building | Deliberative Democracy

Types of Service short-term | ongoing school year | summer

MC Literacy Corps ESL program at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church
Blount County Justive Center tutoring (Federal holding facility for "illegal" immigrants
Bridges Immigrations and Refugee Services (Catholic charities)
Document Translation Services
Tijuana Christian Mission home for Children
Oasis Catolico Santa Rafaela

Academic Work courses | service-learning | CBR and policy research | departments and institutes

Education & Training forums | workshops | reflection activities

This year the first year class each took an aspect of the larger immigration issue and presented what they learned every Thursday at lunch.

Topics:

Stereotypes of immigrants

Immigration and elementary education

History of United States Border and Immigration Policy

DREAM Act

Economic impact of immigration on TN agriculture

How to become a citizen 101

Immigrant working conditions

Campus and Organizational Capacity-Building training | fundraising | resource development

Research, Policy Analysis, Deliberative Democracy evaluations | policy research | issue forums | advocacy

Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition action page. Follow local and state wide legislation.
After their service trip experience to Oasis, the rising Sophomore class will work with TIRRC to find legislation and lobby on behalf of TIRRC next year in Nashville.

Contacts staff | faculty | students | community partners (local, regional, national)