{"id":838,"date":"2019-05-28T10:22:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T14:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/?p=838"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:05:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:05:54","slug":"an-engaging-short-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/2019\/05\/28\/an-engaging-short-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Teagan Ladner &#8217;21, An Engaging Short Term"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Each spring, the Harward Center for Community Partnerships preps and deploys a&nbsp;working group of students who spend the five weeks of Short Term tackling specific projects with local partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether helping a local land trust improve its signage or surveying pediatricians about how they discuss home gun safety with parents, \u201cthese students are mobilizing some pretty sophisticated skills and capacities for their off-campus projects and partners,\u201d says Harward Center director Darby Ray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/files\/2019\/05\/190522_Teagan_Ladner_YWCA_Video_0157-2-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/files\/2019\/05\/190522_Teagan_Ladner_YWCA_Video_0157-2-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/files\/2019\/05\/190522_Teagan_Ladner_YWCA_Video_0157-2-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/files\/2019\/05\/190522_Teagan_Ladner_YWCA_Video_0157-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/files\/2019\/05\/190522_Teagan_Ladner_YWCA_Video_0157-2.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption>photo by Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Teagan Ladner &#8217;21<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hometown<\/strong>:&nbsp;&nbsp;Shrewsbury, Mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Major<\/strong>:&nbsp;Rhetoric<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Partner<\/strong>: YWCA Central Maine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Project<\/strong>: Developing a video to promote the racial justice work the YWCA does through its Stand Against Racism event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Teagan says<\/strong>: \u201cDuring my STA\/RT project, I learned the importance of being involved in community-engaged work beyond the role given or task at hand. As a videographer, it can be easy to distance yourself from the people you are filming and the event taking place, but I found it useful to allow myself to get involved in the event without using the lens as a barrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn my case, that meant putting down the camera and participating in dialogue groups after the film screening during the Stand Against Racism weekend.&nbsp;By engaging in deep conversations about race and immigration, I became inspired by the vocal youth in the Lewiston-Auburn community leading these discussions. I was then able to look for clips in my footage that I felt most accurately represented the themes brought up by youth voices in the discussions I had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn general, I would encourage others to try to understand the people and mission of their community partner by participating in new ways that may not be in your written job description.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each spring, the Harward Center for Community Partnerships preps and deploys a&nbsp;working&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}