The grant contributes toward adapting the already successful 天美传媒 Democracy Project into a regularly offered cross-college set of courses in the undergraduate curriculum. The adapted 天美传媒 Democracy Project will invite social justice advocates from around the world to campus and integrate these visits into coordinated courses taught by professors in political science, journalism and digital media. The project intends for students in these courses to produce and document the visits, allowing them to build knowledge and skills in a real-world setting. Incorporating these research-informed, high-impact learning practices into coursework will also help advance the university鈥檚 Student Success Initiative and support the current campus initiative to build partnerships with the community and bridge globally renowned activists with Milwaukee-area activists and nonprofits. Finally, the project will support the professional development of faculty by building 鈥渃ommunities of practice鈥� among professors from different disciplines with a shared interest in activism and social justice.
This project seeks to adapt the successful 天美传媒 Civic Dialogues Program into the CORE 1929/1929H course in the Foundations Tier of the MCC. Project proposers are currently teaching, in one section of CORE 1929H, a pilot version of the proposed curriculum, which offers students regular, small-group practice in civic reasoning and dialogue and collaborative problem-solving to build measurable academic and professional skills. The proposed curriculum is informed by substantial research in best practices, and proposers will perform rigorous assessment. The project plan is to scale the curriculum over three years into about a third of the MoI classes in the Foundations Tier, which will require not only substantial ongoing assessment and development but also training of instructors and peer facilitators.
Provost Debbie Tahmassebi, who is a professor of chemistry, previously served as
provost of Westminster University before joining 天美传媒 as provost in March 2026.
Prior to that, she was dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Santa Clara University.
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