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TCCTA Social
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Project:
Bridge Building
The Lee College Multicultural Institute
Submitted by Susan Cummings
The purpose of the Lee College Multicultural Institute is to provide students the opportunity to learn about and interact with various cultures and ethnic groups on campus, in Baytown, and in the greater Houston area. International students and locally born students share aspects of their own cultures and experience the food, music, history and faiths of a different country each month.
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Study Abroad with Tyler Junior College!
Submitted by Manoucher Khosrowshahi
The purposes of our tours are educational and fun. TJC projects offer participants an opportunity to journey to other countries to examine a situation first-hand, to see beyond what is communicated by the mass media. By joining one of our tours, students and community members have the chance to learn about unfamiliar cultures, meet with people from all walks of life, establish meaningful relationships with people from other countries, and shop. {Get started at your college.}
Lone Star College-Kingwood Philippines Service Learning Project
Submitted by Brian Shmaefsky
The outcome of the travel was to build an honors section of geology in which students study natural disasters in the Philippines and then work on projects with the Gawad Kalinga organization to restore communities devastated by the natural disasters. The service learning component integrated into the course teaches students how to use their academic 
skills to help improve the lives of people displaced and made indigent by natural disasters.
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Philippines Service Learning Project documentary
Social Responsibility
Bridge Building Resources:
Oklahoma Global Education Consortium
Personal Contacts:
AACC: International Programs and Services
Other Helpful Links:
Community College National Center for Community Engagement