Feb/Mar 2024 e-Newsletter

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Update on Courses, Webinars, and Student Achievements

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Coming Soon, February Webinar and Course

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Saturday, 24 Feb. 1 pm Eastern

Free Admission

One of the core elements of social transformation involves a closer examination of the family, which the Universal House of Justice describes as “that vital institution which is the basic unit of society.” This webinar seeks to explore the complex relationships between parents and children.

Panelists: Allen Lu, Clarissa-Cecile Agbortoko, Sahar Maranon Davis, Shoghi Agbortoko

flyer for Anti-Black Racism in the US course featuring paper cutout people standing in a line made of paper with all different shades from light tan to dark brown

9-wk online course | 2/21 to 4/23

Fees and Scholarships

Explore with us the 'most vital and challenging issue' for Baha'i communities. This course features weekly, 90-minute Zoom sessions on Sundays at 4:00 pm Eastern Time. The first session will be on Feb. 25th.

The course is mostly asynchronous; each week there will be carefully selected materials to read and videos to watch. On Sundays all participants are invited to explore the weekly theme on Zoom.

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Publications

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The Many Problems with Shrimp

David Bellamy shared an illuminating presentation about shrimp with the participants of the recent Sustainable Development extension course. Here is a brief interview about some of the main points from his presentation.

Conversations about

Sustainable Living (Series) with Christine Muller

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Baha'i House of Worship, USA

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Hailu and Nadine Robele

Last Fall Nadine Robele took Writing Histories and Biographies: Recording Stories of People and Places. As a course project, she wrote the story of how she met her husband, Hailu.

She begins: "Hailu was born in 1954 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He was brought up in an Ethiopian Orthodox household, but never practiced it.

Extension Student News

Student Shares Communication Lessons Learned

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Photo: by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

Joan Hernandez, Lead Faculty for extension course Cultivating Capabilities of Transformative Leadership: “I was really impressed by these comments made by Susan Green in her Learning Self-Assessment…" Susan teaches science in a public school in New Mexico. The students she refers to in her comments are high school students.

March Preview: Extension Courses

Fees and Tuition Support

3/13 - 4/30 Cultivating

Transformative Leadership

(Part 1 of 2)

3/27 - 6/18 How to Collect, Arrange, Maintain and Promote Baha'i Archives

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Editor

Nicola Daniels

Production

Nicola Daniels

Hasti Khoshnammanesh

Contributors

David Bellamy, Susan Green

Christine Muller, Nadine Robele