How Everett Works
Hands on Tech
We empower students to explore technology through peer-to-peer and self-guided learning. Through hands-on projects, students learn how to leverage tech for social change and begin to bridge the digital divide.
Hearts on Change
The Everett Program’s leadership component focuses on bringing students together for authentic community-building and self-reflection. We aid students in embracing a growth mindset, being self-reflective about power dynamics, and cultivating empathetic, collaborative leadership.
Heads on Justice
Students in our program learn about key features of the information revolution and network society, in both a local and global context. They develop the capacity to research understand complex systems. We emphasize the ability to analyze and evaluate the strengths and limitations of different social justice strategies, allowing students to put this knowledge into practice through their projects.
1. To provide a broad and critical introduction to how globalization and new information and communications technologies are involved in all aspects of contemporary economic change, social interaction, and cultural development.
2. To explore how civil society actors–including social movement organizers, activists, social entrepreneurs, community developers and ordinary community residents—are responding to the challenges of these changes.
3. To introduce processes of community-engaged research and organizational assessment, particularly as it relates to the Everett Program
1. Develop a critical understanding of the factors of successful projects and their relationship to social movements and social enterprise strategies for social change.
2. Understand the processes of developing a full project proposal, including planning, developing clear goals and objectives, project implementation plans, monitoring and evaluation systems, timelines, and budget.
3. Grow a relationship with a project partner and developed their own detailed proposal for an ICT-related project in collaboration with that partner.
4. Gain confidence and motivation in technology-related problem-solving and self-learning and learn to use technology effectively in social change work and civic participation.
Specific learning objects include:
1. Learn necessary skills for successful project implementation including project management skills, distance collaboration and communication skills, monitoring and evaluation skills, and so forth.
2. Engage in implementing impactful social change project in collaboration with a local or global community partner.
By the end of this course, students:
1. Understand deeper meanings of their project experience and its impact on personal growth, partner organization and broader social change.
2. Communicate their project experience effectively by developing skills to articulate, visualize and deliver their messages for different types of audience through different means of communications.
GISES
Learn about additional steps students must take in order to obtain a major concentration or minor in Global Information and Social Enterprise Studies (GISES).
