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  • Enacting Radical Imagination in Higher Education: A 2025 Collaboratory Report

    By Imagining America

    August 7, 2026

    Enacting Our Radical Imaginary (EORI): A Place-Based Activation of Speculative Learning Design, a 2025 Collaboratory, aimed to turn student projects into embodied learning experiences for the broader Georgetown community. The primary partners for this work included students and faculty from the Critical Speculative Design course; the EnActors; and the Red House, Georgetown’s curricular innovation unit, and its Baker Family Terrace, an outdoor studio classroom and gallery.

  • Celebrating & Reflecting: 25 Years of Community Based Learning and Research at Occidental College

    By Imagining America

    August 6, 2026

    This month's member spotlight uplifts the Center for Community Based Learning (CCBL) at Occidental College, which will celebrate 25 years of bringing together faculty, students, and community partners as co-thinkers and collaborators in addressing social justice issues. Founded in November of 2001, by a group of faculty and then president, Ted Mitchell, the creation of the CCBL aimed to shift the College’s engagement with the local community from volunteerism to long-term reciprocal community partnerships anchored in the curriculum.

  • Creating Refuge: A 2025 Collaboratory report

    By Imagining America

    August 4, 2026

    Following the 2024 election, the Creating Refuge Collaboratory (featuring participants from Bates, Bowdoin, Carleton, and Macalester Colleges) emerged as a collective effort to explore the ways in which civic and community engagement centers could facilitate intersectional spaces of community care, resiliency, and creative resistance for students and communities. Learn more in this blog post.

  • EP 1: A CONVERSATION WITH STEPHANIE MARONEY AND ERICA KOHL-ARENAS

    By Imagining America

    August 4, 2026

    In the first episode of Gathering Whispers for this season, we talk to IA Managing Director, Stephanie Maroney and IA Faculty Director Erica Kohl-Arenas, who give us a sneak-peek at what we can expect to experience and learn at the 2026 IA National Gathering.

  • On a dark blue background, is a graphic of yellow, blue, and white hands. They each have an eye and beak on the thumb, like hand-turkeys. There is also a graphic of an iphone with plants sprouting out of it, overlaying the hands. Text in yellow on the right reads, "Digital Divestment Roundtable", and in red below it, "Gen AI in the Classroom: Tips for Engaging Students in AI Classroom Policy". In the top right corner is the Imagining America logo. In the bottom right corner is small yellow text that reads, "Art by Dheeraj Nanduri for ArtistsForClimate.org Art by Shadowchaser for Fine Acts".

    Gen AI in the Classroom: Tips for Engaging Students in AI Classroom Policy

    By Imagining America

    July 28, 2026

    AUGUST 13, 10am PST, ON ZOOM. In this back-to-school edition of the Digital Divestment Roundtable, Marguerite Mayhall (Art History, Kean University) and Ashwin Vaidya (Math/Physics, Montclair State University, IA Member Institution), will introduce us to their pedagogical practice of engaging students in a conversation around AI in the classroom through the lens of informed consent.

  • Photo of a large group of people on a brick patio outside. They are mostly middle aged or older. They are all standing, facing the same direction, and holding a handkerchief/scarf over their heads with both hands, which blows in the wind above them. In front of them a woman is standing also holding something over her head. She is wearing a leotard and looks like a dancer or performer of some kind.

    2025-2026 IA Annual Report

    By Imagining America

    July 15, 2026

    We are pleased to share the Imagining America Annual Report for the 2025-2026 membership year. It has been a joy to build new and meaningful relationships with so many people, organizations, and places across the national network and we hope that you enjoy reading on for all that we have learned and accomplished in the past year.

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