Comments on: Walking the Walk

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German Shephard Leashes — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:12:10 +0000

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By: Things That Happened, Things To Do—Week of September 27 - Middlebury Magazine

Things That Happened, Things To Do—Week of September 27 - Middlebury Magazine — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:18:40 +0000

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By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:31:41 +0000

As a staff person in an office, usually not involved with students on a regular basis, I am not sure how I would model global citizen for our students. What would that look like? Would love to hear some examples.

I can imagine trying to conduct myself in a manner that any good citizen anywhere would be proud of. If I do that in my local community, then my actions should radiate outward. If all politics is local, so perhaps is global citizenship?

By: Janet Rodrigues

Janet Rodrigues — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 03:12:29 +0000

The most important achievement that the administration must facilitate and students must also push towards is to instill “community.” Thinking in our current context as “global citizens,” we are extremely lucky to have a micro community–an imagined community with rules, values, common beliefs and an organizational system. Think locally, we like to say. Well, contribute to each other. I like to believe in something I will shamelessly share I heard on the Oprah Show, “we are all trustees of each others happiness.” We influence the experiences of the people around us: in classes, crossing paths, in greetings and so on. When our community fails to recognize each other, overwhelmed by individual interest, we lose our solidarity. “Economia solidaria” is a practiced framework that seeks to establish social, political and economic structures that maintain local and inalienable communities within a scary rapidly growing global community. We should invest in our surroundings, our “economia solidaria”–even if it IS for just four years.

How to achieve that end?

Hold students accountable: Incidents of vandalism, social divisions–cliques. Diminishing hierarchy on campus: integrating faculty and staff into our community, offering more say to every member of our community. And incorporating “local community”, “local citizens” into the rhetoric of campus leaders–instead of only the “global citizen”