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THE UMASS ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION (UACT)
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- UACT is a unique partnership of UMass students, faculty and
members of grassroots community organizations. We work together to
design programs that build community, promote social and economic
justice, advance cross-cultural understanding and serve the
educational and civic objectives of our Land Grant University.
UACT's collaborations with communities in Massachusetts and beyond
are built around both curricular and co-curricular Alternative
Breaks. We serve as the coordinating organization for curricular
Alternative Spring Break, Alternative Summer Break, Reverse Spring
Break and Alternative Service Weekends at UMass. We design and
offer leadership training for students who wish to serve as group
leaders on Alternative Breaks and we serve as consultants to
faculty who wish to incorporate alternative breaks into their
courses. We also run workshops on how to design alternative
curricular breaks and how to train student leaders for these
programs. UACT is run by a CORE group of 5-7 student leaders all
of whom are alumni of UACT alternative breaks. These leaders work
together with a faculty advisor to manage all aspects of UACT
programs from curriculum design to leadership training, to
classroom facilitation to fundraising. UACT works with community
leaders to evaluate ongoing collaborations and to design new
programs and partnership activities. We strive to engage in work
that transforms our classrooms, our institutions, our communities
an ourselves by rejecting the constraints of the conventional
classroom and by making the roles that we play as students,
teachers, citizens and activists more seamless.
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- FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
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- UACT
- c/o Department of Anthropology - 209 Machmer
Hall
- University of Massachusetts
- Amherst, MA 01003-4805
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- Email: uact@anthro.umass.edu
- Phone: 413-545-0214
- Fax: 413-545-9494