GRANT RECIPIENTS:

Max Couper, EAP, InterAmerican Campus
mcouper@mdc.edu
Carlos Gonzalez, Communications, InterAmerican Campus
cgonzalez@mdc.edu
Penny Roache, EAP, InterAmerican Campus
proache@mdc.edu
Emily Sendin, Communications, InterAmerican Campus
esendin@mdc.edu

This project is the convergence of two departments, EAP and CAP. It is an ambitious layer we would like to add to our previous grant, Connections: Healing Spirit, Land, and Community through Literacy and Restoration. The primary intent is to improve students’ reading, writing, research, and communication skills while creating an awareness of place and allowing students to interact with older and newer generations of Little Havana. In our previous grant we made a connection with the ecology of South Florida; now we would like to expand this connection to the immediate urban environment around the InterAmerican Campus.
The intentions are to improve student learning and increase retention. Also, it continues the union of our departments by incorporating unique service learning activities. Students will perform a series of interviews with Little Havana residents which will result in a reader to be used by future classes and any other professors who desire to do so. As did our previous project, we believe this will influence and serve as a model which could be replicated by other faculty and departments college-wide. As a finished product, we would like to create a reader entitled Calle Ocho Voices: A Collection of Little Havana Oral Stories, which will result from the joint efforts of students, faculty, and the community.

The results of our project are available on the Little Havana Voices website:

http://faculty.mdc.edu/cgonzal3/Little-Havana-Voices/index.htm

Please visit the following link to view pictures:

http://faculty.mdc.edu/cgonzal3/Little-Havana-Voices/LittleHavanaVoices/index.html

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We plan to share our website with the relevant departments at all of Miami Dade campuses.