Title: Campus-Community Collaboration: The Odyssey Project and Humanities in Action
Description:
When you think of campus-community collaboration, what comes to mind? One program you may be less familiar with is the Odyssey Project, which offers local low-income adults in our community the opportunity to earn college credits in the humanities for free (including textbooks, dinner on class nights, bus fare, academic advising, and more). For some students, this is a supportive environment to try out a college course for the first time. For others, it is a step toward reentering the path to a degree that had been put on hold. Hear from Professor Antoinette Burton about Odyssey, how it can serve as a model of campus-community engagement, and how you can support our recruitment efforts. We’ll also share powerful stories from alumni of the program. Additionally, you’ll hear about a new initiative between We CU and HRI—the Humanities in Action program. Humanities in Action awards stipends and other support to undergraduate students majoring in the humanities who want to participate in community service but may not have been able to because of financial obstacles or other concerns.
Join us to learn more about these efforts to connect the humanities with our C-U community in transformative and valuable ways. The Odyssey Project in Champaign-Urbana is administered by the Humanities Research Institute. Learn more about We CU.
About the Speaker:
Antoinette Burton is the director of the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she is a professor of history and Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair. She is the principal investigator for the Mellon Foundation-funded Humanities Without Walls Consortium, which includes 16 institutions and is headquartered here at Illinois. A former head of the Department of History (2005–2010), she became the director of HRI in 2015. Burton has published widely and has been a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Registration Information:
This event will be hosted in person at Lodgic Everyday Community 1807 S. Neil St.
and
on ZOOM for those who would prefer to attend virtually
**Where to Find Your Zoom Link:
Each registrant will receive 2 reminder emails prior to the luncheon. You'll find the Zoom meeting information in those emails, as well as in your confirmation email which you will get immediately upon registration.
Registration for in person is $18.00 and includes lunch.
Registration to attend in person will be available until noon on Monday, August 15th. After August 15 at noon, registration switches to "late registration" at a price of $25.00. Registration via Zoom is free and will close on Wednesday, August 17th at 12:00 noon.
Luncheon Start Time:
11:30 a.m.: Registration and Networking
11:45 a.m.: Lunch is served
12:00 p.m.: Meeting/Program begins in person and Zoom Call Starts
Non-Members: If you are not a member of ECCC and wish to attend as a guest, please contact Janice McAteer, Outreach Chair, to register.
