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Celebrating Our Seniors

by Sierra Romero On May 24th, approximately 70 people gathered in the Great Hall in Levering to celebrate the Center for Social Concern’s graduating seniors. Students, family members, staff, and faculty snacked on Hor devours and mingled amongst one another. The evening began with a welcome from our office’s Executive…
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The CSC Hosts its Annual End of Year Celebration

By: Sierra Romero On May 2nd, the Center for Social Concern hosted its end of year celebration for all Hopkins members involved with CSC programming. Around 45 students trickled in throughout the afternoon to talk with one another, enjoy lunch, snap some polaroid pictures and grab some giveaways. Halal food…
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Baltimore First Hosts its Closing Celebration

By: Sierra Romero On May 1st, around 30 students gathered at the Center for Social Concern’s office for Baltimore First’s end of year celebration. Baltimore First is the CSC’s individualized direct service and volunteering program. Students are matched to a site partner and volunteer once a week in groups of…
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Tutorial Project and Their 2023 Closing Ceremony

By: Sierra Romero On April 26th and 27th, Hopkins students, Baltimore elementary school students, and parents gathered in the glass pavilion to celebrate the end of another semester with Tutorial Project. Each tutee was called up to the podium to receive a certificate decorated by their Hopkins tutor, a book…
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Incorporating Community-Based Learning (CBL) Into Your Course: Hear from This Year’s Engaged Scholar Faculty Fellows

by: Sierra Romero “Cultural humility.” “Potential.” “Reparative.” “Plaid.” “Flexibility.” On April 19th, five of the seven current Engaged Scholar Faculty & Community Partners Fellows gathered at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library for a “lunch & learn” panel hosted by the Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation. Facilitated by Luisa DeGuzman,…
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Field Day with the Tutorial Project

By: Sierra Romero On April 24th and 25th, the courtyard outside Levering Hall was filled with over 100 elementary school students participating in the Tutorial Project’s annual Field Day extravaganza. Split between two days, Hopkins tutors and elementary school tutees participated in a series of events. This included sack racing,…
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The Inaugural RACE Conference: Everything You Need to Know

What are reparative arts, and how we might chart a way forward in alleviating systemic harms and injustices by creating living monuments through staging, performance, and other ways of memorialization? Drawing on Dorinne Kondo’s (2018) concept of ‘reparative creativity’, we understand reparative arts as the processes (methodologies/pedagogies) and/or products (visual,…
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