Flint Water Crisis Learning Community

Given the impact and significance of the Flint, MI water crisis, the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability and the Center for Community Collaboration, together with the Environmental Science and Policy Program, invite you to join a learning community on this topic. With this venture, we hope to bring together faculty from a wide range of disciplines to learn about and discuss the failure, response, impact, repair, and remediation in the city of Flint. Many of you may already be thinking that you would like to incorporate elements of this unfolding story into your teaching, and we envision that through this community we can support each other in these efforts.

What will this be?
We imagine starting this spring with a series of conversations around shared readings, with CEEDS and the CCC providing lunch. Moving from a common understanding of the events, participants may then delve more deeply into particular aspects of the situation and return as a group to share their insights. We are especially interested in encouraging faculty to engage students in their classes in this discussion, and we hope to learn from each others’ experiences in the classroom. Ultimately, we intend for this learning community to be driven by the faculty participants, and the form and approach is flexible.