Tent State at UST Announced!
Students, Teachers, Community,
Join Us!
For the First Annual
Tent State at
The University of St. Thomas
2115 Summit Avenue
St. Paul, Mn 55105
Lower Quad on Campus!
April 12th 2007
What is Tent State?
Tent State is a growing student led movement that challenges the
current state of education in America. Today, higher education
has become an absolutely invaluable tool to succeed economically, but
has increasingly become unavailable to an ever growing
population. Education is a fundamental right, and Tent State
demands that it be accessible to all regardless of financial and social
restrictions.
Tent State lays the foundation for a movement that works to change the
balance of priorities in a nation that consistently under values
education, and other social rights such as health care, social
security, and job training.
This is an invitation to participate in Tent State. Everyone has
something to contribute, whether it is a skill, knowledge, or even some
sort of talent. All are invited to participate.
Contribute!
Your presence is essential to make this a success. If you are in
a club, organize an activity. As an individual, teach something
that isn't taught in the classroom. Learning is not all about
text books. Show each other how to fix a bike, or knit socks, or
breathe fire, or anything skill you might have. Take learning
outside the classroom!
How can you contribute you ask?
Activities!
Student teach-ins - Share your skills with fellow students.
Speakers - Learn from people for free, or come and speak! Knowledge
doesn't need to have a price tag.
Live Music - Local bands are invited to provide music Thursday night.
Camp on the Quad - Spend the night on the lower quad for camping, a
bonfire, and plenty of surprises!
Classes!
Teachers- Take your classes outside and move education into the
open! Move outside the doors of the institution, and open your
class to the community.
Bring!
Sleeping bag, tent, lovely décor (banners, paintings, flags,
sidewalk chalk, drums and whistles, unusual musical instruments, and
other resources with which to beautify the spaces we occupy),
entertainment (educational documentaries, stand-up comedy,
heartbreaking music, stunning poetry, whatever it takes to initiate
genuine communication between people), festive apparel (face paints,
puppets, stilts), and readiness for anything.
Our Goals
What do we hope to accomplish with Tent State? With a task as
monumental as challenging the rising costs of education and challenging
the concept of institutionalized education, what could one day in the
quad possibly accomplish?
We hope to create a space where a forum and discussion can occur about
the increasing costs of higher education and what college is preparing
us for. We are hoping this space will allow for other models of
education to develop.
Contact us! TentStateUST@gmail.com
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