2007-2008 Freedom Center Ticket Distribution Guidelines
As part of the UC|Great Beginnings initiative the Center for First Year Experience and Learning Communities, with support from Just Community, has collaborated with The Freedom Center to provide first-year students with free admission to The Freedom Center.
This collaborative effort is intended to enrich students’ collegiate experience by challenging and inspiring them to learn about historical and contemporary dimensions of freedom and to explore courageous ways to forward freedom in their world. The Dimensions of Freedom Collaboration provides a pathway to help achieve the principles of UC’s Just Community initiative as well as the aims desired for first year students to (1) acquire intellectual and self-management skills needed for success in the university, as well as in life-long learning; (2) become engaged with the cultural life and diversity of this large, urban, research university; (3) focus their attention on what their professional and civic responsibilities to the world might be as educated persons; and (4) advance their capacity to make connections between knowledge gained from multiple sources and to apply their increasingly comprehensive understanding to new questions and situations.
Eligible applicants are (1) faculty teaching a course that enrolls at least 5 freshmen and (2)student leaders who hold a recognized role as a peer mentor to at least 5 freshmen. Applicants must establish a connection between the visit to The Freedom Center and the learning/engagement objectives for their course/student group. Upper-year students are welcome to accompany their freshmen colleagues if they are enrolled in the course or are members of the student group. In other words, free admission to The Freedom Center will be arranged for entire course/group populations with the expectation that at least 5 freshmen will take part. For 2007-2008, 250 free tickets are available through this collaboration. Applications will reviewed and approved on a first-come, first-serve basis. Ticket awards will be made until all tickets are used.
PROCESS AND DEADLINES:
Activities must be sponsored by a course instructor or a student leader in a recognized role as a peer mentor.
Participants are only eligible to receive one free admission ticket per academic year
Requests must be submitted at least 14 days before the proposed visit but no sooner than 45 days prior to the first day for the academic term in which the visit will occur. (For example, requests may be submitted in mid-fall quarter for a museum visit during the winter term.) We recommend submitting your application in enough time to consider special requests associated with your visit; some visit options like the DialogZone require more than two weeks advance notice;.
Applications for tickets must be submitted by email to: Jennifer.Dively@uc.edu, Graduate Assistant, Center for First Year Experience and Learning Communities.
Requests will be reviewed promptly. Award decisions are final.
To receive free admission tickets students must present their UC ID and an approved award letter from the Center for First Year Experience & Learning Communities to The Freedom Center.
No reimbursements will be made to participants arriving to The Freedom Center without proper identification. Similarly, no reimbursements will be made for prior or subsequent visits to The Freedom Center.
Recipients must complete an evaluation of the Dimension of Freedom Collaboration.
2007-2008 Ticket Distribution Application
