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ALL WE CAN SAVE: Events for Winter Term 2023

Students hiking in Adirondack mountains.
Student service in Adirondacks

All events are co-sponsored by 蹤獲扦-Dearborn Student Government, the First Year Experience Committee of Faculty Senate, and Planet Blue Ambassadors.  This series is related to our Community Read, All We Can Save. Please reach out to members of the FYE Committee with any questions: John Burklow, Anne Dempsey, Lynda Dioszegi, Amy Finley, Tyler Guenette, Katie LaCommare, Kevin Lewtshanyn, Darena Matti, Micheal McDonald, Anna Muller, Kristin Poling, Natalie Sampson, Maggie Rathouz, Margaret Willard-Traub.
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Thursday, March 9, 4:30 pm-6:00 pm, All You Can Save: Confronting Eco-Anxiety & Moving Towards Action, Kochoff Hall B, Renick University Center.

Panel discussion on coping, staying hopeful, and working towards climate change solutions. Featuring 蹤獲扦-Dearborn students, faculty, counselors, support staff and administrators.

Pizza will be served!

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Wednesday, March 15, 7:00pm - 9:00 pm. New York-based animator Zoya Baker presents her environmental film, Cranberry Lake, and other shorts, followed by Q&A, 1071 CASL Building.

Cranberry Lake is a 17-minute documentary about immersive forest ecology courses in the Adirondack Mountains, connecting experiential learning and environmental stewardship.

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Thursday, March 16, Annual Forum on Migration: Climate Change. Hosted by Department of Language, Culture, and the Arts (LCA), featuring students and faculty exploring migration issues of climate change, labor, and studying abroad.

: Passcode: 557449

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Monday, April 10, Noon - 3:00 pm, Sustainability Fair: All We can Save, Kochoff Hall, Renick University Center.

In celebration of Earth Month, meet 蹤獲扦-Dearborn and community organizations working on sustainability initiatives, offering  internships and volunteer opportunities. Film screening of Pollution Has No Boundaries and a pie the professor fundraiser for the 蹤獲扦-Dearborn Environmental Interpretive Center.

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Book cover of All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson

Faculty Senate Sponsors Community Read for 2022-2023

Community Read is a program of the First Year Experience Committee of Faculty Senate (co-chairs Holly Sorscher and Margaret Willard-Traub), modeled after the of the National Endowment for the Arts. The intent is for students, especially those new to campus, to engage with the topic from several disciplinary perspectives. 

The reading for 2022-2023 is All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, an anthology of 60 essays and poems edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson (One World 2020). The anthology is part of the  Members of the Faculty Senate First Year Experience Committee are planning a variety of events throughout the 2022-