July 24, 2011
These Community Colleges Encourage Creative Teaching and Get 'the Big Picture'
Courtesy of Rebecca Evans
Rebecca Evans (left), an associate professor of business at Blue Ridge Community College, and a student, Megan Samples, helped build this school for the disabled in Rivière Froide, Haiti.
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Courtesy of Rebecca Evans
Rebecca Evans (left), an associate professor of business at Blue Ridge Community College, and a student, Megan Samples, helped build this school for the disabled in Rivière Froide, Haiti.
When a major earthquake rocked Haiti in early 2010, Rebecca M. Evans and three of her Blue Ridge Community College students were left stranded just outside Port-au-Prince for two days. But before they had even arrived back in the United States, the group, which had been building rabbit-farming cooperatives and training Haitian families to operate them, had thought up a new project that would take them back to Haiti: On a future trip they would build a school for the disabled.
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