Imagine a thousand small colleges, each a few dozen students, spread across the United States and the world.
Each of these microcolleges is deeply embedded in its surrounding local community as well as its problems and challenges.
Each teaches by combining basic traditional learning and practical work, service to address community challenges, and sustained engagement with democratic principles and leadership.
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How should education be delivered in marginalized communities?
What should it look like? What should it consist of and do?
The Dikē Project proposes confronting issues of persistent inequality and poverty on Chicago's Southside through siting a community-embedded, locally urban pilot service & labour-based microcollege in the West Woodlawn / Hyde Park neighborhood overlap.
Small micro-colleges, focused on local transformation.
In 1938, Carl Hansberry, a black entrepreneur, real-estate developer and activist, bought a house on Rhodes Avenue ...
