Diversity

 

ND 203 - Cultural Learning Tour

 


Left to right: Copal AA, Guatemala; Cherokee Territory, Tennessee; and Northern Ireland
 
Pucara project
Students help install clean showers in Pucara, Ecuador.
The Cultural Learning Tour is an annual trip that allows   students to  engage in direct and indirect community    service while being immersed in a new culture.

On the Cultural Learning Tour, you will explore social, cultural, political and/or environmental issues through various service and educational experiences. You will develop a foundation of knowledge about the importance of civic and community engagement.


 

 

Ceremony
Students participate in a Mayan ceremony in Copal AA, Guatemala.
Cultural Learning Tours are eye-opening immersive service trips that are run each year by joint efforts of the Office of Diversity & Inclusion and the Community Service/Service Learning Office. The purpose of these trips is to expose students to service learning which explores social, cultural, political and/or environmental issues through various service and educational experiences. We stress the  importance of civic and community engagement.

 Past trips:

2006
Copal AA, Guatemala
2007
Appalachia/Cherokee Territory , Tennessee & North Carolina
2008
Pucara, Ecuador
2009
Caimito, Puerto Rico
2010
Northern Ireland
2011
Pine Ridge Reservation, Black Hills South Dakota
2012
Dominican Republic
2013
New Orleans, LA
 

Cultural Learning Tour 2013: The Other Side of New Orleans

Often after a major tradgedy like Hurricaine Katrina help is plentiful. However, shortly after the story fades from the news so too does the help, though the need is still great. Juniata has sent a contingent of faculty, staff and/or students to New Orleans every year since 2005 and this year we will combine our service efforts with a deep understanding of the complex fabric of cultures that has made it the beautiful and diverse city it remains today. New Orleans is a place where Africans, both enslaved and free, and American Indians shared their cultures and intermingled with European settlers. Encouraged by the French government, this strategy for producing a durable culture in a difficult place marked New Orleans as different and special from its inception and continues to distinguish New Orleans today.

 

To join us in New Orleans this spring, or for more information, contact:

Abbey Baird
Community Service & Service-Learning Coordinator
(814) 641-3365
bairda@juniata.edu		 Rosalie Rodriguez
Special Assistant to the President for Diversity & Inclusion
(814) 641-3125
rodrigr@juniata.edu