Academic Diversity
In the spring of 2010, in partnership with the Activist Resource Center, the Workers Defense Project celebrated the acquisition of a new space in East Austin called 5604 Manor. The building is also home to Third Coast Workers for Cooperation, as well as several other budding community projects.
Faculty Fellows Take Teaching, Research, and Service to the Community Level
As a faculty fellow, Jensen will continue to foster use of 5604 Manor as an
The university has a rich tradition of working
emerging community space and to support the projects growing out of it, such
with communities across the state through
as the Cooperative Business Institute. The institute is a comprehensive training
collaborative efforts that involve our faculty.
program that provides participants with the skills and resources needed to start
This work is often centered around solving
their own sustainable, worker-owned, worker-run businesses.
problems and sharing research.
Jensen said he feels passionately about “helping young people with ideas
Through its Faculty Fellows program, the
get things going.” As someone who has been involved in global justice movements, he feels that macro-level justice movements are important but not often successful. “Where the power lies is on the ground, in grassroots movements aimed at diagnosing real problems and helping people do what they need to,” he said. “That’s what’s so great about these projects.”
Division of Diversity and Community Engagement (DDCE) supports a select group of faculty members whose teaching, research, and service has roots in the community—whether it is bringing art to a community, organizing individuals to solve a community problem, or helping address significant education
5604 Manor is a community space that houses the Third Coast Activist Resource Center, the Workers Defense Project, and several other projects.
challenges.
DDCE Faculty Fellows 2010–2011 Ms. Elizabeth Danze, School of Architecture
Dr. Edmund T. Gordon,
Department of African and African Diaspora Studies
Dr. Bob Jensen,
Department of Journalism
Dr. Robin Moore,
Butler School of Music
Dr. Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, Department of Journalism
Dr. Victor Saenz,
Department of Educational Administration
Dr. Cherise Smith,
Department of Art and Art History
Dr. S. Craig Watkins,
Department of Radio Television Film and Department of African and African Diaspora Studies
Division of Diversity and Community Engagement • The University of Texas at Austin
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