Reflections Magazine Issue #69 - Spring 2009 | Page 13

Campus Feature

“Our students say they are really surprised,
because they are treated as an adult for the first
time in their lives there,” Easley said. “And they
are ambivalent about that. … My students learn
as much from the teachers there as they do from
anything else.”

Previous page photo: Professor of Anthropology Linda Easley (at right)
calls the interaction between her anthropology/sociology students and
Michener Elementary School students “creatively hanging out” in the
hope that co-learning can occur between the two groups.

Above photo: Siena Heights anthropology student Brittani Wilson
(back, at left) and international student Vera Alvarez (at right) hosted
Michener Elementary School fourth-graders on the SHU campus this
fall as part of the community-based learning program.

“(SHU students) come in very shy and need direction,” Howard said. “But at the end, I find they
are conversing with t