"Not many places allow the opportunity for students to have value around what they have actually learned in the world, and to integrate that with new learning."

– Carroy "Cuf" Ferguson, Associate Professor, Human Services

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"Before coming here, I was very disillusioned with academia and wanted a change."

– Jamie Lee Manning, Community Planning Major

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"I help students to design a learning experience and to figure out which competencies [coursework] those experiences relate to."

– Diane Dujon, CPCS Alumna, Director of Experiental Learning

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"CIRCLE is a program that really made a tremendous positive impact on my development as a learner; not only did it empower me and inspire me [to have] the confidence that I can learn but enabled me to learn with different students from other parts of the world."

– Agnes Nansubuga, Center for Immigrant & Refugee Community Leadership & Empowerment (CIRCLE) student

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Note: this video was filmed by CIRCLE leaders Omar Oliveira and Jean (Journel) Joseph and edited by Omar Oliviera.

"I learned how to deal with people in communities that I just didn't know about before. I learned how to problem solve rather than just do policing... I think this is the best place to learn."

– Jack Cole, Founding member and executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP)

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