{"id":116023,"date":"2023-09-05T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=116023"},"modified":"2023-09-05T07:57:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T11:57:21","slug":"sept-14-noon-faculty-lunch-w-alum-from-mid-ohio-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/sept-14-noon-faculty-lunch-w-alum-from-mid-ohio-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sept. 14 @ Noon &#8211; Faculty Lunch w\/ Alum from Mid-Ohio Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Justice major and the Office of Community Service Learning invite faculty and staff to a catered lunch with one of our alumni and community partners: <strong>Mid-Ohio Workers Association (MWA)<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Thursday 9\/14 from 12:00-1:00 (Merrick Hall 202).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We will be joined by Brenda Dressel (2018 OWU alum) who is currently a full-time organizer for MWA, which serves low-income workers. Brenda will discuss how MWA can work with faculty and courses at OWU to connect students to community opportunities in your field.<\/p>\n<p>Students from any major can find a way to put their skills to use through projects such as:<br \/>\n&#8211; helping us reach those most affected by economic policies on our door-to-door canvass.<br \/>\n&#8211; advocating with our volunteer physicians, lawyers and dentists to deliver free-of-charge services.<br \/>\n&#8211; designing publications that tell our members&#8217; side of the story.<br \/>\n&#8211; assisting with our annual holiday events including a \u201csafe and sane\u201d Halloween Party for Children, and much more!<\/p>\n<p>Sally will also share other related service learning opportunities, which can be tailored to your courses and fields. If you plan to join us, please email Paul Dean (<a href=\"mailto:psdean@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">psdean@owu.edu<\/a>) so we can have the appropriate amount of food.<\/p>\n<p>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office: Social Justice<br \/>\nContact: Paul Dean at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:psdean@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">psdean@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Justice major and the Office of Community Service Learning invite faculty and staff to a catered lunch with one of our alumni and community partners: Mid-Ohio Workers Association (MWA)\u00a0Thursday 9\/14 from 12:00-1:00 (Merrick Hall 202). We will be joined by Brenda Dressel (2018 OWU alum) who is currently a full-time organizer for MWA, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facultystaff-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116023"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116045,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116023\/revisions\/116045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}