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Geneseo
Migrant Center:
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Since
the 1960s, Geneseo faculty and students have shared in and helped
shape the Center's research agenda. The migrant population is a living
laboratory for studies of cultural diversity, the economic and social
conditions of farmwork, and the challenges of education and family
services in rural areas.
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Geneseo students are involved with the Center in several ways: as volunteers, as interns, and as part-time employees. For some students, these options open up a career ladder, leading to graduate school or full-time employment in service professions. Hands-on experience in Center programs enriches academic training in many fields. |
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There are also opportunities for part-time employment in Center programs. In the past, student workers staffed the weekend program for migrant families. Geneseo students work as in-camp teachers in adult education and arts. Some move on to full-time careers in migrant services. |
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The Center began in 1968 as
an on-campus institute for migrant studies. SUNY Geneseo's then
President, Dr. Robert MacVittie, worked with Drs. William Cotton and
Gloria Mattera of the Education Division and John Dunn of NYSED's Bureau
of Migrant Education to build a program that would link research on
migrancy with professional training for teachers and direct service to
migrant children.
For more than a decade, the Center was affiliated with SUNY Geneseo. Although it is now institutionally separate from the College, its founders' shared vision still animates Center programs. And the Center has continued, and even enlarged, its service to the Geneseo college community. |
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college credit for work with farmworkers. Undergraduate and graduate
students in education enrolled for the first workshops for teachers of
migrant children. The College's former School of Library Sciences placed
interns with the Center's Resource Library.
In 1989, a grant from the USDE's Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education supported the FACES (Farmworker Arts, Culture and Education with Students) program, expanding internship recruitment and training. Students in anthropology, art, communication, education, geography, organizational and occupational behavior, public relations, and sociology have interned at the Center and LVA-LC. |
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