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University holds Holocaust remembrance event despite Jewish protests

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Flannery said the local Chabad rabbi and his wife provided the speaker kosher food, which is generally not available in the local Reform Jewish community. ” “The committee was formed through the recommendations of college deans as this was an academic event hosted by Academic Affairs,” the university said.

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12 Great Ways to Use the Community as a Resource in Project-Based Learning

Experiential Learning Depot

Community immersion through service- learning: Encourage students to get out in the community and provide a needed service such as providing home maintenance for the elderly, volunteering at a food shelf, cleaning up garbage in the neighborhood, or reading to local elementary students.