Hurry Slippery Rock University students! The deadline has been extended to create your Ethics Bowl team. This is a great opportunity to build your resume! Find your teammates now!!!!

We are excited to announce the 4th annual SRU Ethics Bowl! Community members from all walks of life are invited to participate as judges.

Hot off the press! Dr. Yukako Ishimaru and her student mentor Erika Paris, a Secondary Education major at SRU, taught our Humanities Ladder students the art of calligraphy this week.

Learn more about the Humanities Ladder program here: www.humanitiesladder.org

Calling all SRU students to apply and be a camp counselor this summer!
Great opportunity for education, social work and counseling students

JUNE 18-22, 2018

* Apply by March 31 *

Welcome back!!! We hope everyone is off to a great start.

The CPH has lots of exciting events and programs planned this semester! Be sure to check back frequently for updates.

It's that time of year again. Join us December 9 and 10 at the Old Stone House in Slippery Rock.
We hope to see you there!

Save the date! The Macoskey Center will be hosting a Community Café on Wednesday, December 6 from 6-8PM. Join the creative conversation to help determine the future direction of sustainability in Slippery Rock. RSVPs are encouraged.

It’s not just another Thursday at Aliquippa High School. That’s because the CPH’s Humanities Ladder program offered another new experience for program participants—Afro Colombian dancing.

SRU's Afro -Colombian Dance Company (headed by Dr. Melissa Teodoro) gave a presentation and dance demonstration to the students at Aliquippa so that they could observe some of the cultural concepts they studied during their Music and Dance Module. 

During the Music and Dance module, students discussed how music and dance are cultural products that tell or communicate information about the historical background of the peoples that created such cultural products. 

In the case of the Hispanic cultures, the presence of the historical links to European, Indigenous, and African cultures can be found in the music and the dances of different regions. For instance, students spent time discussing how the predominance of certain instruments in music and movements in the dances tell us a story of what cultures have had more impact in the region. Particularly, students discussed drums and call-and-response as elements that communicate strong African influence and how we find these elements as predominant in the cultures of the countries with Caribbean coasts. 

When the dancers from SRU spoke to the Aliquippa students, they mentioned the predominance of the drums and the call and response in the dances that they perform, which illustrated and reinforced the concepts they had explored in the classroom.

Check out the Aliquippa High School students dancing alongside the SRU students!