Tom Borrup ’15 (PhD Leadership & Change) was the keynote speaker at the Gwangju Urban Design Forum in Gwangju, Korea. He is Principal for Creative Community Builders and Director of Graduate Studies for the University of Minnesota’s College of Continuing Education. He recently collaborated with fellow alumnus Dr. Tom Ellison ’15 on a planning project to designate and build social and civic infrastructure for a Creative Industry Zone in Utah.
Kate Sipe ’02
What if classrooms were envisioned as a small democracy? What if our students practiced democracy in their classroom year after year? Further, what if they knew they deserved it? Kate Sipe, ’02, Antioch University Seattle MA in Education with Graduate Teacher Preparation and an adjunct faculty who teaches Classroom Management courses, published a timely post in Medium in the wake of the 2020 Presidential election about the importance of democratic schools and teaching civics to our children: “Psst… Hey teachers… Let’s teach civics in our classrooms every single day.” Start today. Start small. Just start. Let your classroom be a microcosm