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Pro Bytes: Dayton Hughes

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“Your professors, byte sized.”

Please welcome Dayton Hughes to Pro Bytes, provided to you by MIIS Radio. Though not a professor per se, Dayton is critically involved in the ebb and flow of MIIS, and his outlook on life is one worth sharing in all capacities. Dayton is officially our Director of Outreach and Employer Relations, and unofficially the go-to “DOER” on campus (derived from the acronym). He’s also an avid hiker and dedicated maximizer of student potential through his work at The Center for Advising and Career Services (CACS), combining practical career training with practical advice. But what makes Dayton unique and his opinion worth consulting is his advocacy for connecting to one’s environment to learn and experience self-reflection in a more meaningful way.

Let’s listen in to what he had to say…

Pro Bytes: Peter Shaw

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When I first heard Peter Shaw’s name come up in conversation I knew that he would be an interesting character to engage with, but I had no idea that I would eventually have the pleasure of interviewing the Professor of Pedagogical Magic himself for the institute radio station. Jeff Dayton-Johnson and I happened to be talking about where and how he decided to use podcasting to “flip” his classrooms when Peter came up. I remembered him saying that it was Peter who had designed so many the innovative and collaborative techniques employed across campus. So, considering the medium of podcasting for MIIS Radio it was only logical that Peter be the ideal pilot interview for its revival.

The following 10 minute segment is comprised of a series of highlights from our conversation spanning from community service learning projects, to language learning, to podcasting, to trekking across the Sahara “Mad Max/A-Team” style. I could tell you all about in writing but then what would be the point of the audio! Simply click the link below to listen in.

Enjoy!

Winona LaDuke speaks at CSUMB

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CSU Monterey Bay hosted an evening with activist and writer Winona LaDuke on the topic Environmental Justice from an Indigenous Perspective. LaDuke is a member of the Mississippi Band Anishanaabekwe who lives and works on the White Earth Reservations in Northern Minnesota and the executive director of Honor the Earth, a native-lead organization concerned with the environmental movement. A forerunner in speaking out for environmental action, social justice and indigenous rights, her sixth book, The Militarization of Indian Country, released last April, addresses issues such as affronts taken when Osama Bin Laden was revealed as target “Geronimo”, and the United States’ uranium mining in the Grand Canyon in the wake of possible nuclear contamination in Japan. Her talk focused on American Indian economic and environmental concerns.