Alumni College

December 7, 2002

By Suzanne Allmendinger

Over eighty CPCS alumni, faculty, staff and students came “back to school” Saturday, December 7th to participate in the first Alumni College.

It was a day filled with activities including eight faculty/alumni led workshops that highlighted key issues and trends in public and community service. There was plenty of time to renew friendships and reconnect with community and professional networks and at lunch each alum introduced themselves and shared something about where they are now and what they are doing.

Reebee Garofalo addresses the opening session in Snowden with “Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?”

As you would expect, our alums are active in the social justice movement, playing key roles in the field of public and community service across the state working with youth, disabled, elderly and other underserved populations on health issues, worker rights and housing, just to name a few.

The day concluded with a “Where do we go from here?” session. Grads proposed a variety of activities to support and boost our recruitment efforts and discussed ways to support the College.

CPCS Alumni introduce themselves at the luncheon and share their community activities with staff, faculty and students.

Evaluations showed a high level of satisfaction from our alumni who left us with the questions: “What can we do to support CPCS?” and “When is the next alumni event?”

Marie Kennedy and Ty dePass ’00 conduct their workshop on "Research for Social & Economic Justice: Re-Constructing People’s Wisdom"

Plans are underway to mobilize this group and channel the energy and fervor of our alums who are important members of the CPCS community.

Alumni respond to the question "Where do we go from here?”

Many thanks to all those who helped make this event a success, and especially to our many alums who took the time to attend!