Engage@NKU: Northern Kentucky University, Greater Cincinnati Region

Engage@NKU is a series of engaging and interactive learning programs and resources hosted by Northern Kentucky University's Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement. The goal of this series is to strengthen educational and service-based partnerships. Programs will:

• Highlight successful practices and partnerships in service learning and community engagement.

• Provide networking opportunities to facilitate beneficial campus-community alliances.

• Explore and identify how academic research and service learning can meet the needs of the community.

Explore activities for all ages.

Use the links below to browse our resource guides, recordings of presentations, activity guides and more.

Thomas D. Clark Foundation - Teaching Black History

Though integral to Kentucky’s story and to America’s, Black history and culture aren’t widely taught in our state’s public schools. Far too many students have never heard of Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer or Kentucky’s own Georgia Davis Powers. Of our vagrancy laws, “sundown towns,” poll taxes or slave patrols. This failing leaves a void that contributes to bias, intolerance, and conflict.

It is the belief of the Thomas D. Clark Foundation that rectifying this omission must begin in Kentucky’s classrooms. As such, we are committed to supporting resources to aid teachers at all grade levels in teaching Black history and culture. Visit the History of Race website for a variety of resources, videos, and presentations.

History and Culture of Race Resource Guide

This guide is adapted from a webinar for teachers held on July 29, 2020, and hosted by the Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement.
Dr. Karen Cheser, superintendent of Fort Thomas Independent Schools
moderated. She is a member of the Scripps Center’s community advisory
board.

Norse Explore: Activities for Grades K-12

Community Connections offers programs, activities, and resources that are dedicated to fostering a commitment to attain a postsecondary education in the minds of elementary and middle school students. The younger the child is when exposed to college, the better the chances that a student will incorporate college into his/her lifelong goals. NKU faculty, staff, students, and alumni have created activities for teachers, community youth coordinators, and families to use; supplementing lesson plans, adding to their own programming and allowing the next generation to explore topics through the lens of NKU research and creative efforts.

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