About LipscombDec. 8 - SALT Forum: Reframing Community
12/8/2008
6:30 p.m.
The Lipscomb University community is invited to a forum to discuss service learning and the Lipscomb Initiative for Education (LIFE), which brings Lipscomb students and inmates at the Tennessee Prison for Women together to study a liberal arts topic each semester.
The forum, titled “Reframing Community: The TN Prison for Women and the Lipscomb Initiative for Education,” is sponsored by The SALT Center and will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 8 in the Doris Swang Chapel in the Ezell Center.
The discussion will focus on service-learning opportunities in the current course The Power of Art, taught by Lipscomb professor Laura Lake Smith. Students in the course will reflect on the shared experience of collaborative education between Lipscomb students and the Tennessee Prison for Women students.
The Power of Art course is designed to use art as a creative way of investigating issues of race, gender, rights, economics, cultural perspectives, and political ideologies, issues that have longed plagued those on the inside of the prison system.
Fifteen students at the Tennessee Prison for Women have now completed 18 credit hours over the course of six semesters since January 2007. Each semester 15 traditional Lipscomb students have enrolled and traveled to the prison each week for class.
12/8/2008
6:30 p.m.
The Lipscomb University community is invited to a forum to discuss service learning and the Lipscomb Initiative for Education (LIFE), which brings Lipscomb students and inmates at the Tennessee Prison for Women together to study a liberal arts topic each semester.
The forum, titled “Reframing Community: The TN Prison for Women and the Lipscomb Initiative for Education,” is sponsored by The SALT Center and will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 8 in the Doris Swang Chapel in the Ezell Center.
The discussion will focus on service-learning opportunities in the current course The Power of Art, taught by Lipscomb professor Laura Lake Smith. Students in the course will reflect on the shared experience of collaborative education between Lipscomb students and the Tennessee Prison for Women students.
The Power of Art course is designed to use art as a creative way of investigating issues of race, gender, rights, economics, cultural perspectives, and political ideologies, issues that have longed plagued those on the inside of the prison system.
Fifteen students at the Tennessee Prison for Women have now completed 18 credit hours over the course of six semesters since January 2007. Each semester 15 traditional Lipscomb students have enrolled and traveled to the prison each week for class.
