Ringling College of Art and Design
PAE-T2-3: Student Training Opportunities

MOSAIC – (Making Our School An Intercultural Community) provides activities, events, and trainings that focus on cultural diversity and multiculturalism, inclusivity, social justice, globalism, and sustainability. The student-led group utilizes resources within the college campus and from external community partners. GSA – (Gay Straight Alliance) provides activities, events, community outreach, and trainings that focus on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning and straight individuals on inclusivity, social justice, and advocacy. GSA has brought in guest speakers, video screenings, suicide prevention training for at-risk college students who are gay, and hosted annual “Coming Out Day” events on the college campus. The GSA also received an Honorable Mention in the First Annual 'Out in the Silence' Award for Youth Activism which aimed to help concerned local residents raise LGBT visibility and find common ground with others in the quest for dignity, respect, fairness and equality for all. URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-hamer-and-joe-wilson/out-in-the-silence-award-winners_b_1126823.html?ref=gay-voices CAMPUS MINISTRY – provides small group discussions, trainings, and outreach education focused on spiritual diversity within cultures and social justice programs. VOLUNTEERISM & SERVICE LEARNING – Partnered with Kushil Gunasekera, Founder of the Foundation of Goodness in Sri Lanka to present on cultivating compassion and creating sustainable solutions to eradicate poverty in the world in 2011. The program, open to all, was so inspiring and empowering that 3 students from Ringling College created a proposal to the Davis Project for Peace to further the documentation of Kushil’s work and their contribution. URL: http://seelanka.tumblr.com/ ALTERNATIVE SPRING BREAK – 5 Ringling College students traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico to work with Colegio Cruz del Angel, a low-income primary school where they taught English, art, and designed/painted four murals on the dilapidated wall of the school. The students worked with each other and locals to develop themes and incorporate Oaxacan culture and history into each mural. REACH – (Ringling Educating About Campus Health) organized international World AIDS Day program, including a community health day, a Red Tie Gala, and silent auction to benefit local AIDS Charities. URL: http://www.hivsarasota.org/Documents/NR_WAD_Community_Events_%2011-09-07.pdf REACH also provides a sexual awareness week they draws speakers from Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center (SPARCC), the Community AIDS Network (CAN), and put on activities like a Condom Fashion Show and perform the Vagina Monologues.