Academic Innovation Fund Progress Report

In September 2021, President David Fithian and Provost Sebastián Royo announced a $300,000 Academic Innovation Fund to be allocated to selected applicants across the university, to promote efforts across areas of strategic imperative: The Integration and Belonging Hub was one of the twenty-two initiatives accepted for this grant. This document is a progress report provided to the fund

Notice for Guided Internship and Professional Development program

Contains the notice/advertisement for the Integration and Belonging Hub\u27s Guided Internship and Professional Development program. This program was developed by the Hub for undergraduate and graduate students interested in working with refugees and other forced migration populations in Worcester and in other parts of the country. This document contains information of what is offered, an orientation agenda, qualifications, and application instructions. This advertisement was also used during the Spring semester of 2022 to recruit interns for Summer 202

Workshop Discussion Topics Responses

Each of the Worcester Inter-University Refugee Workshop\u27s three sessions contained a series of questions for breakout group discussion. This document contains those questions as well as notes taken on the answers and responses provided by the various discussion groups

Timeline itinerary for webinar series talk with guest Gaisu Yari

An internal timeline itinerary made for the Integration & Belonging Hub\u27s Webinar Series talk on February 1st, 2023. Gaisu Yari was the guest speaker, giving a talk titled Afghan refugee voices: What does belonging look like in host countries? . This webinar was hosted on Zoom. This PDF was converted from an Excel sheet. The Notes column on page two corresponds to the rows on page one and so on and so forth. Date refers to date of event, not date of creation

Visioning Lunch invitation

Contains the invitation to the Integration & Belonging Hub\u27s Visioning Lunch, held on November 9th, 2022. This visioning lunch was held for Clark University colleagues whose work (whether teaching, research, and/or practice) aligns with refugee and immigrant integration and belonging. The goal was to seek input from these colleagues in driving the next steps and future funding for the Hub. Date refers to date of event, not date of creation

Timeline itinerary for Virtual Brown Bag webinar with guest Stephanie Acker

An internal timeline itinerary made for the Integration & Belonging Hub\u27s Virtual Brown Bag series webinar on November 30th, 2022. Visiting scholar Stephanie Acker was the guest speaker, giving a talk titled Beauty and beautification in refugees\u27 lives and its implications for refugee policy . This webinar was hosted on Zoom. This PDF was converted from an Excel sheet. The Notes column on page two corresponds to the rows on page one and so on and so forth. This document includes a redaction regarding sensitive information. Date refers to date of event, not date of creation

Digital flyer for Virtual Brown Bag webinar with guest Stephanie Acker

A digital flyer made for the Integration & Belonging Hub\u27s Virtual Brown Bag series webinar on November 30th, 2022. Visiting scholar Stephanie Acker was the guest speaker, giving a talk titled Beauty and beautification in refugees\u27 lives and its implications for refugee policy . This webinar was hosted on Zoom. Date refers to date of event, not date of creation

Facilitators Notes and Discussion Questions

Notes and Discussion Questions for the facilitators of the Worcester Inter-University Refugee Project, Anita Fabos, Noa Shaindlinger (Worcester State University), and Sarah Ihmoud (Worcester State University and College of the Holy Cross). Notes taken summarizing the group responses of these questions can be found in the PROVIDE LINK. Attached is also a supplemental file containing a draft of this document, with some internal notes and insight into the formulation of these questions

Webinar presentation, Afghan refugee voices: What does belonging look like in host countries?

Contains the PowerPoint slides for Gaisu Yari\u27s presentation Afghan refugee voices: What does belonging look like in host countries? . This presentation was given on February 1st, 2023 as part of the Integration and Belonging Hub\u27s webinar series. This webinar was hosted on Zoom. Gaisu Yari, project director of Afghan Voices of Hope, found herself a sudden refugee when the Taliban forcibly took control of Afghanistan in August 2021. Recognizing she was a witness to history, she began collecting the stories of her fellow exiles while living in a refugee camp in Poland after her evacuation from Kabul. Yari is a former commissioner in the Civil Service of Afghanistan and a human rights advocate who holds a master’s degree in Human Rights from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in Middle Eastern and Gender Studies from the University of Virginia. In addition to her work in Afghanistan with National and International Organizations, Yari is leading Afghan Voices of Hope and traveling around the world to see those in exile, collect their personal narratives, and work on a collective voice for the emerging Diasporas from Afghanistan. The main document is in text-only PDF format. To see the PowerPoint presentation, download the related file. Permission was obtained by Gaisu Yari to make this PowerPoint publicly available. Date refers to date of event, not date of creation

Digital flyer for Virtual Brown Bag webinar with guest Craig Mortley

A digital flyer made for the Integration & Belonging Hub\u27s Virtual Brown Bag series webinar on November 16th, 2022. Craig Mortley was the guest speaker, giving a talk titled Focusing on Refugee and Forced Migrant Experiences and Social Policies . Mortley is a forced migration practitioner and emerging scholar This webinar was hosted on Zoom. Date refers to date of event, not creation