Lecture: Distinguished Citizen Scholar Marshall Ganz
Marshall Ganz, organizer, educator and advocate for democracy, will speak on "Knowledge of How to Combine: Reclaiming the Democratic Process," and will be awarded the 2006 UMass Distinguished Citizen Scholar Medal.
On the faculty at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Ganz teaches and writes on leadership, organization, and strategy in social movements, civic associations, and politics. His extensive career in organizing began in 1964 with his involvement in the civil rights movement. He then spent 16 years with Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, eventually becoming Director of Organizing. He continues to work with numerous electoral campaigns and grassroots organizations. His graduate-level course on organizing at the Kennedy School of Government serves as a model for organizing courses around the country including the capstone course in the Citizen Scholars Program. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching selected both Ganz’s course and the Citizen Scholars Program as two of only 21 programs nationally to be studied as educational models for promoting political engagement among college students.
The Citizen Scholars Program is a nationally recognized community service learning program for UMass Amherst undergraduates directed by the campus Office of Community Service Learning at Commonwealth College. Each year the program honors someone who has championed civic engagement, democratic education, and service learning in their communities and across the country.
This event is sponsored by the Citizen Scholars Program of the UMass Amherst Office of Community Service Learning at Commonwealth College and by UMass Amherst Outreach.
