Veronica House
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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So I think the personal can deeply impact the scholarly questions we have and the curriculum we design.
And I also think you don't have to have those ancestral connections to think deeply about place.
For me, it was just this like added layer of sort of amazement at the connection that I had to this land.
A lot.
I think that it can be fairly common depending on the place where students are and the kind of university.
It can be common for students to not leave campus a lot and to not understand what's going on in the city or town where they're studying.
And I also think that it is so common in especially first year writing classes for people to just want to get that credit over with and to move on and they want to get the grade.
And when I was in graduate school, I became frustrated with some of the typical assignments, like pick a topic that you care about and then write about it.
But it was so often pretty surface level or just, you know, stuff like that I could see did not resonate deeply with the students.
And I started doing community based work with them because I wanted them to understand the
importance of writing in the world.
Writing can have profound impact in the world.
You will be writing for the rest of your lives and your careers, but also writing can be an active force.
And so how can we relate what we're learning about in a classroom to real lived experience?
Why does it matter?
And to be able to get students out in the community learning from really innovative people, I think, was inspiring to them beyond anything I could have done in the classroom, because you can only talk about an idea so much.
before you need to see it lived and embodied.
And so when we would go to farms, when we would go to food banks, when we would learn from nonprofit leaders, that was when students saw, like, I can actually make a difference in the world.
These people are doing incredible things.
These topics we're learning about that seems so overwhelming can be
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