Free Summer Teacher Institute on Work
Oregon Humanities offers teachers the chance to explore the nature of work, the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow’s workers.
25 February 2010 | Permalink
Oregon secondary school teachers will have the chance to examine the topic of work at a free summer institute sponsored by Oregon Humanities (formerly Oregon Council for the Humanities).
“The Way We Work: History Lessons for a New Economy” is a free weekend program offered to Oregon secondary school teachers and will be held July 8–11, 2010, at Reed College in Portland. The registration deadline for the institute is May 14, 2010 (new deadline). Interested teachers may register online at oregonhumanities.org.
Enrollment is limited and preference is given to first-time participants and full-time Oregon secondary school teachers. Institute participants earn thirty hours of continuing education credit. Two optional graduate credits are available through Portland State University for a fee. Attending the institute will be free, though there will be a $50 materials fee for participants. For more information, please contact program coordinator Sarah Van Winkle at (503) 241-0543 or (800) 753-0543, ext. 112, or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Oregon Humanities’ Teacher Institutes are offered thanks to the generous support of individuals, foundations, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Larry Lipin, who will serve as the institute director, has been a professor of history at Pacific University since 1992. He has written extensively on labor, politics, and Northwest history, including Workers and the Wild: Nature, Labor and Consumerism in Oregon, 1910-1930 (University of Illinois Press, 2007). His first book, Producers, Proletarians and Politicians: Workers and Party Politics in Evansville and New Albany, Indiana, 1850-87 (University of Illinois Press, 1994), was nominated for a Philip Taft Labor History Prize and a Book Award of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association. He holds a PhD from UCLA.
Oregon Humanities connects Oregonians to ideas that transform communities. More information about our programs and publications, which include the Conversation Project: A New Chautauqua, Think & Drink, Humanity in Perspective, Teacher Institutes, Happy Camp, Public Program Grants, Responsive Program Grants, and Oregon Humanities magazine, can be found at oregonhumanities.org. Oregon Humanities is an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities and a partner of the Oregon Cultural Trust.
