Seeking Justice, Seeking Hope

This article focuses on place-based pedagogy developed in partnership with Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR) at Guilford College, which is the first initiative of its kind to mobilize college and university campus resources provide housing other forms assistance refugees seeking resettlement institution’s local area (within beyond physical borders). ECAR transforming refugee United States as it also transforms our understanding teaching about issues faced by these communities, role post-secondary educational institutions. Through ECAR’s commitment “compassionate hospitality radical accountability” (Every Refuge, n.d.), campuses undergo transformations that blur boundaries between community redefine notion “place” for students members. paper outlines main curricular components Principled Problem Solving College. We present an analysis survey data collected from who participated curriculum, analyze their responses. indicate academic program’s 1) provides opportunities learn what forced displacement why happens; 2) centralizes voice, agency, perspectives individuals experience migration resettlement; 3) emphasizes how we can collectively organize advocate address problems resettlement. In this way, minor helping engage work principled problem-solving through specialized course offerings pedagogy. The concludes challenges interested adopting program colleges/universities, well discuss pathways further research pedagogical innovation.