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UNCG Classes Combine Their Efforts to Foster Respect and Understanding
Campus Weekly
April 23, 2003
Cuny Inspires Tolerance
Communication Studies faculty member, Kim Cuny, gave the closing keynote at the 35th annual Conference of the Virginia Association of Teachers of English on October 10. Cuny was asked to speak to the group about her service-learning storytelling efforts at UNCG. Cuny’s participation in a national effort to teach tolerance that is rooted in the communication
discipline served as inspiration for the educators. The Storytelling Project that Cuny directs here is one of over 70 “Communicating Common Ground” (CCG) partnerships in the country that connects college communication course work, students, and faculty with k-12 communities in an effort to foster acceptance of diversity and find common ground. A second CCG partnership at UNCG is under the direction of CST faculty, Chris Poulos.
Cuny challenged the teachers of English to make finding a way to incorporate the teaching of tolerance into their classes a priority. Cuny’s own students, currently enrolled in her storytelling freshman seminar, will start telling tolerance themed stories to children in the Greensboro community in November. More information about this effort can be obtained at:
http://www.uncg.edu/cst/story