Interview with Paul Rogat Loeb
Paul Rogat Loeb: ‘You can’t be afraid to take on the challenges’
GREENVILLE, N.C. (Feb. 24, 2011) — In his tours of college campuses, author and activist Paul Rogat Loeb has observed that many students lack an understanding of how social change occurs. They know, for instance, that Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus, but they don’t know about the years of behind-the-scenes work that precipitated the Montgomery bus boycott.
Educators have a unique responsibility to change that, Loeb argued Wednesday at the 8th annual ECU Conference on Service-Learning. Loeb, who has lectured to 400 colleges around the country, has published five books, including the “Soul of a Citizen,” which has more than 100,000 copies in print. An updated edition was published in April.
Loeb spoke with ECU News Services about the role of universities in social change and how professors can develop civically engaged students. Read the full interview at http://www.ecu.edu/news/newsstory.cfm?ID=1912.
Educators have a unique responsibility to change that, Loeb argued Wednesday at the 8th annual ECU Conference on Service-Learning. Loeb, who has lectured to 400 colleges around the country, has published five books, including the “Soul of a Citizen,” which has more than 100,000 copies in print. An updated edition was published in April.
Loeb spoke with ECU News Services about the role of universities in social change and how professors can develop civically engaged students. Read the full interview at http://www.ecu.edu/news/newsstory.cfm?ID=1912.