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Michael Klein, M.A., Social Justice Vocation Instructor and Leadership Coordinator, directs the Justice and peace studies internships and the Student Coalition for Social Justice, an activist group. He also teaches two course a year in the program. His undergraduate degrees are in studio arts and theology and his graduate work is in education with an emphasis on service-learning. He has traveled throughout the US, Central America and the Caribbean as a coordinator of service programs.
He developed a series of course built around student service and immersion trips to areas of poverty and oppression such as: A VISION of Civil Rights with a trip to Selma, Alabama and A VISION of Native Lands with a trip to White Earth Reservation, Minnesota hosted by Winona LaDuke.
Mike is a muralist specializing in community-based projects. He has painted with participants in boxing and African dance programs, a youth farm project, a multi-cultural immigrant community, a crisis nursery and a "hate-free week" on campus.
He has contributed a chapter on service-learning to an upcoming book entitled, Short-term Study Abroad. His has been awarded several awards for service-learning and was a Faculty Fellow for Peace Studies under the auspices of the Minnesota Campus Compact in 2000. He is also the chair of the St. Thomas Student Life Committee.
Michael regularly teaches JPST 250, and 360 (the new VISION courses integrating volunteer trips with academic work).
For more information, contact:
Rev. David W. Smith
University of St. Thomas
Mail 4137
2115 Summit Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105-1096
(651) 962-5325
Last modification date 10/02/02.
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